Alan Jackson is nominated for a CMA Award for Music Event of the Year with his pal Zac Brown on their duet, “Dixie Highway,” which appears on Alan’s latest album, Thirty Miles West.
AUDIO: Alan Jackson talks about Zac Brown, with whom he’s nominated for Music Event of the Year for “Dixie Highway” at this week’s CMA Awards.
AJ (Zac Brown) OC: …of sound. :38
“I like artists, and I like Zac, that are the real thing, you know. He’s been playin’ in clubs for years and had that band and just strugglin’ like people do, and playing ‘til he likes, the music and he’s a songwriter. He’s not just a singer, a guy that got out of college and said, ‘hey, I wanna be a country singer and move to Nashville.’ He’s a guy who was singing and really making a living doing it playing clubs and things that I did to. I think it comes across and just his style when he sings, he’s created his own sound and his own musical style too. It’s not real hard country, but it’s rootsy. You know I like that kind of sound.”
