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Through the '80s and '90s, Alan Jackson quietly worked to become one of the most popular modern honky tonkers of his era. Born in Newnan, Georgia, as a youth he sang gospel music in church and at home. As a teen, he sang at parties and choirs in a country duo. Jackson left school to sell cars and later work in construction; At the age of 20, he only gradually began to perform music professionally, ...more


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