Alan Jackson released a new single to country radio today. “You’ll Always Be My Baby” was written by Alan for his daughters’ weddings and is featured on his latest album, Where Have You Gone.

“When Mattie got married – my oldest daughter Mattie got married four years ago she wanted me to write a song for the father/daughter dance,” says Alan. “So that’s where it came from. And I wrote it and then I told my other two girls, I said ‘look, I’m just going to write one song and all three of y’all can use it for your dance if you want to.’ I said, ‘I don’t want to have to write three different songs.’ So, I’ve used it twice now.”

Alan says his late son-in-law (who was married to daughter Mattie) was very emotional after hearing “You’ll Always Be My Baby.” “I think all three of them were very touched by it, but I remember more was Mattie’s husband, Ben. I remember we were at home and said we had written this thing. I had a rough demo of it or something,” he says. “And we went out in the garage and sat in the truck because I didn’t have any way to play it in the house. I don’t know what I had…I may have had a CD or something. I don’t remember now. And we played it and I remember him looking emotional about it and saying that was just perfect or something to that effect. And that stuck with me. And he’s – it was Mattie’s husband who died accidentally after not quite the first year they were married. So that was a nice memory to have of that.”

Alan is heading to Denver, Colorado on Friday (August 6th) and  Salt Lake City on Saturday (August 7th).