Alan Jackson Details New Album, ‘Where Have You Gone’
What song are you most excited to hear?
Alan Jackson will release his first album of new music in six years this May, announcing Where Have You Gone on Friday morning (4/2). The singer shared that his ambitious project of 21 songs will debut on May 14.
“It’s a little harder country than even I’ve done in the past,” Jackson shared of his 16th studio album. “And it’s funny, I was driving and listening to the final mixes Keith sent me, and I started to tear up. I was surprised to get so overly emotional, but I just love this kind of music.”
“When I write, I visualize back home and growing up,” the Country Music Hall of Fame member continues. “Real country songs are life and love and heartache, drinking and Mama and having a good time…but it’s the sounds of the instruments, too. The steel and acoustic guitar, the fiddle – those things have a sound and a tone…and getting that right, the way those things make you feel, that’s country, too.”
The project features 21 new tracks, 15 of which were penned by the hitmaker himself. Jackson shares a more personal side of himself on this album, with the songs “You’ll Always Be My Baby” and “Where Her Heart Has Always Been,” written about giving his daughters away at their weddings and the passing of his mother, respectively.
“Alan’s taken his experiences over the last six years and implemented his poet’s perspective to weave together a masterful love letter to country music,” says UMG Nashville President Cindy Mabe. “This is Alan’s story but it’s also the story of country music. This music love letter was written about the most universal experiences in life, almost exclusively with Alan’s own pen, and it’s once again a reminder of what a one-of-a-kind creator he truly is.”
Pre-orders for the album are available now.
Alan Jackson’s Where Have You Gone Track Listing:
- “Where Have You Gone” (Alan Jackson)
- “Wishful Drinkin’” (Jackson)
- “I Can Be That Something” (Jackson)
- “Where the Cottonwood Grows” (Jackson)
- “Way Down In My Whiskey” (Jackson)
- “Things That Matter” (Robert Keith Stegall, Michael White)
- “Livin’ On Empty” (Jackson)
- “You’ll Always Be My Baby (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)” (Jackson)
- “Where Her Heart Has Always Been (Written for Mama’s funeral with an old recording of her reading from The Bible)” (Jackson)
- “The Boot” (Adam Wright)
- “Back” (Jackson)
- “Write It In Red” (Jackson)
- “So Late So Soon” (Scotty Emerick, Daniel Tashian, Sarah Buxton)
- “This Heart Of Mine” (Adam Wright)
- “A Man Who Never Cries” ( Jackson)
- “Chain” (Jackson)
- “I Was Tequila” (Jackson)
- “I Do (Written for Daughters’ Weddings)” (Jackson)
- “Beer:10” (Jackson)
- “The Older I Get”* (Hailey Whitters, Wright, Sarah Turner)
Extra Track: “That’s The Way Love Goes” (A Tribute to Merle Haggard) (Lefty Frizzell, Whitey Shafer)
Produced by Robert Keith Stegall
*Produced by Keith Stegall
