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A few decades ago nearly every country singer had at least one--often more--gospel albums in their catalog. Today, aside from gospel veteran Amy Grant, who balances the sacred and secular, and Randy Travis, that concept has long faded. For Alan Jackson, however, treating the musical past as present has been a way of life, as it is with these 15 timeless hymns from his youth. Recorded with just two acoustic guitars and a piano, it was originally a private Christmas present to his mother. The spare instrumentation is surprisingly robust behind his flawless readings of "I'll Fly Away," "Softly and Tenderly," "How Great Thou Art," "Are You Washed in the Blood?," and "The Old Rugged Cross," all as beguilingly unpretentious as any of his country hits. Instead of an all-star duet, wife Denise and daughters Mattie and Ali join in on "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus." In the end, what began as a private bequest becomes a moving, eloquent gift to Jackson's entire audience. --Rich Kienzle

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Within his 2008 release, Good Time, a generous selection of 17 tracks, Alan Jackson sings of all sorts of times. Not only the "Good Time" of the title track--a dance floor, barroom anthem with a hint of Chuck Berry--but tender times ("Right Where I Want You"), mournful times ("Sissy's Son"), lovelorn times ("Listen to Your Senses"), kick-back times ("Laid Back 'n Low Key"), even times of marital monotony ("Nothing Left To Do"). With his return to more traditional country, he channels his inner George Jones on "When the Love Factor's High" and "If You Want to Make Me Happy," takes a bluegrass turn on the uptempo, downbeat "Long Long Way," teams with Martina McBride on "Never Loved Before," eulogizes his father on "Small Town Southern Man" and closes with the honky-tonk gospel of "If Jesus Walked the World Today." Since Jackson is the sole songwriter here, the listener gets a sense of every side of his multifaceted musical personality. --Don McLeese

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You don't have to get very far into Alan Jackson's splendid second anthology of hits before you're struck by how well the rangy Georgian has built his catalogue and how beautifully Keith Stegall continually produces his songs, filling the instrumental breaks with unexpectedly creative solos. While Jackson's choice of cover songs is usually inspired ("Pop-A-Top," "Little Bitty"), he's a deft writer, alternating his tongue-in-cheek, Sheriff Andy Taylor persona with his "just a singer of simple songs" earnestness, lacing it all with an unfettered delivery and a Haggardesque dedication to the bedrock honky-tonk sound. There are times when he edges too close to formula, running the romanticized, small-town, cornbread-and-chicken conceits ("Where I Come From") into the ground. But then he quickly redeems himself with a lip-tremblingly good "Drive" or "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)." This package consists of two discs, 16 hits and two new cuts filling the first and an unnecessary and somewhat inferior eight album tracks occupying the second. Of the two new songs, the emotional husband-and-wife ballad "Remember When" handily outdistances the too-trite "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" with perennial smart-ass Jimmy Buffett. Jackson's too good an artist to settle for such an easy reach, but hey, let's cut him a little slack. He's paid his dues. --Alanna Nash

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Throwing down some jamming dance music at you today. New York?s Alan Wilkis first caught my ear with last year?s excellent Babies Dream Big , an electro funk gem which got quite a few spins here at the BOS. Alan?s new one, the Pink And Purple EP ups the ante a notch with a smoking six song set of tunes. In a recent interview on Owl and Bear Blog , Alan lists his top ten influences as : 1. Michael Jackson 2. Prince 3. Rick James 4. Dazz Band 5. Frank Zappa 6. Tortoise 7. Wilco 8. • Birds I View
After high school, I moved to the Bay Area with visions of enrolling at UC Berkeley. An older cousin of mine lived there that played Alto Sax. The plan was that I would use his address and get into school as a California resident for dirt cheap tuition. Instead, I ended up playing music gigs with him full time, so while I went to Berkeley, I never "went" to Berkeley. I was 17 and it lasted until I was 23. The summer of love was a recent memory, Chez Panisse had just opened and we lived down th • Ferlin Husky In Critical Condition; Midriffs Are In; Brad Paisley Pokes Serious
Eighty-three year-old country singer Ferlin Husky is in the hospital and in critical condition with an accelerated heart rate and possible pneumonia. Caitlin & Will , the Carter Twins , Jypsi and Matt Stillwell will open for Alan Jackson at Aquapalooza, an all-day boating event in Alabama on July 25 . Country California: A hobo appeared on stage at the recent George Strait tribute and no one was arrested. Alison Bonaguro on Charlie Robison : He may have divorced • Prescription drug rumors continue to dog Jackson?s death
By Alan Duke and Saeed Ahmed CNN LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) ? Michael Jackson traveled with what amounted to a ?mini-clinic? ? complete with an IV pole and an anesthesiologist who medicated the insomniac singer ? during his HIStory tour in the mid-90s, sources close to Jackson told CNN Thursday. The information sheds new light on perhaps the central unanswered question in Michael Jackson?s death: Were prescription drugs involved? On Thursday, the California State Attorney General?s off • Devaluing wine writing: the Internet?s dark side
Jo Diaz called yesterday to ask if I?d seen an article she came across called ?The Internet devalues everything it touches.? I immediately interpreted the word ?devalues? in the moral sense: to lesson or annul the value, importance, etc. of. [from my Webster's] As in this quote from a woman who had been psychologically abused by her husband: P. certainly tried to devalue me. He said many nasty uncalled for things? I told Jo I don?t think the Internet devalues things any more than every

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