June 26, 1989, might have seemed like any other day in Nashville, but it was actually one of those watershed moments that only reveals itself in retrospect. A struggling young country singer named Alan Jackson signed his first recording contract that day 32 years ago today launching one of the most celebrated country music careers of all time. The photo above, from Jackson s private collection, shows the aspiring young singer with Tim DuBois, then-president of Arista Records, and Barry Coburn, Jackson s manager at the time.
For someone who would go on to such an auspicious career, Jackson got off to a slow start with his first single, Blue Blooded Woman, which failed to crack the Top 40. But his next single, Here in the Real World the title track of his debut album reached the Top 5 and was followed by a rapid succession of hits including Wanted, Chasin That Neon Rainbow and I d Love You All Over Again. From there, the singer-songwriter has amassed an astonishin
Country Music Memories: Alan Jackson Signs His First Record Deal
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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.”