In 1989, Jackson became the first artist signed to Arista's new country division. By night, he performed in Nashville clubs and recorded an updated demo with songwriter/producer Keith Stegall.
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Campbell's company suggested that Alan take a year and hone his songwriting even further, and so he worked more odd jobs - including the mail room at The Nashville Network, plus some session singing - before finally signing on as a staff writer. Publishing company, and the Jacksons picked up and moved to Nashville shortly thereafter. He caught his big break when Denise found country-pop star Glen Campbell waiting for a flight and gave him a copy of her husband's demo tape Campbell in turn gave her contact information for his music During the early '80s, Jackson held down a series of odd jobs - car salesman, construction worker, forklift operator at K-Mart - while playing the local club circuit with his band, Dixie Steel, and working on his songwriting. He left school to work and married his high school sweetheart, Denise, who worked as an airline stewardess. He grew up singing gospel music, both in church and at home with his family, and as a teenager, he performed locally as part of a country duo. Jackson was born in the small town of Newnan, GA, on October 17, 1959. The total package resulted in an astounding 20 number one singles and 20 more Top Ten hits, all in the first 12 years of his career. He also projected a modest, wholesome, down-to-earth image that made him one of the best-liked stars of his era even apart from his music. Jackson's hallmark was consistency - he wrote many of his own hits, and his way with a hook was part of the reason he never really hit a commercial dry spell, even into the new millennium. An heir to the new traditionalist movement of the '80s, Jackson's approach was rooted in classic honky tonk yet remained comfortably within the contemporary mainstream. After Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson was the most popular male country singer of the '90s.
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