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Alan Jackson was offered with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award on the 56th Annual Nation Music Affiliation Awards on Wednesday.
In his acceptance speech, the nation music legend informed the group on the Bridgestone Enviornment in Nashville, Tennessee, that “Nation music has been actual good to me and I fell in love with it after I was a younger man.”
“I actually love the devices, the metal guitars and the fiddles and issues like that that gave it such a singular character to me and made it its personal,” the musician stated. “And I really like the lyrics and the songs and the artists and the melodies and the harmonies. It’s only a actual American music to me.”
Jackson, identified for a number of hits together with “It’s 5 O’Clock Someplace,” additionally thanked his spouse Denise saying, “We began out as youngsters and she or he’s been on this curler coaster trip with me for 40 one thing years now.”
He added that he’s “not at all times the simplest individual to like, however she’s hung in there and helped me by way of onerous instances and we share nice instances. The nice and the unhealthy, the pleased and the unhappy. We’ve survived rather a lot.”
The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award acknowledges artists who’ve contributed to nation music in a major manner and have positively impacted the music style.
Jackson has additionally been named CMA entertainer of the yr 3 times.