By Lauryn Snapp
Alan Jackson is a country music legend.
While millions of country music fans know Jackson for his dozens of No. 1 songs, the “Litty Bitty” singer told
Cody Alan that being in the country music spotlight happened purely by coincidence.
“We weren’t really a family that played instruments,” reveals the “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow” singer. “We did sing at church. My sister sang in a choir in a school thing, I think? But my daddy only listened to Gospel kind of stuff on Sunday morning. There wasn’t a lot of music around me.”
“When I was about 16, I got a guitar,” says Alan. “I was dating this girl. She had a little sister a few years younger than us who played 12 string guitar and sang. So, I started singing with her. She would sing some harmony, and I would sing the lead, and we started doing a little duo thing around town.”