NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 30, 2012) Country music superstar Alan Jackson will release his much anticipated album Thirty Miles West on June 5. It is his debut album on ACR (Alan’s Country Records)/EMI Records Nashville and is produced by long-time producer and friend, Keith Stegall. Jackson will be launching his new album in New York City with performances on NBC’s The Today Show and CBS’s Late Show With David Letterman.

  

Jackson will also be featured on GAC’s Noteworthy at the Opry this Sat., June 2 9:00pm ET. The show will be centered around performances by Jackson from his new cd Thirty Miles West and also some of his past hits. The show will also include a special rendition of one his most memorable hits by fellow Opry member Carrie Underwood.

 

Alan Jackson is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in music. He is in the elite company of Paul McCartney and John Lennon among songwriters who’ve written more than 20 songs that they’ve recorded and taken to the top of the charts. Jackson is one of the 10 best-selling artists since the inception of SoundScan, ranking alongside the likes of Eminem and Metallica.

 

Jackson has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide, topped the country singles charts 35 times, and scored more than 50 Top-10 hits. He has written or co-written 25 of his 35 #1 hit singles. Jackson is a 17-time ACM Award winner, a 16-time CMA Award recipient, and a two-time Grammy-winning artist whose songwriting has earned him the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award and an induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as a 2011 Songwriter/Artist inductee.