Alan Jackson's current single, "Small Town Southern Man," has plenty of lines in it that sound as if they came straight from Alan's life - particularly one about a boy whose siblings are all sisters and another about a father who's passed away.
There certainly are pieces of Alan's own life in the song, though they were stretched to fit the song's concept.
"I didn't sit down to write a song about my family and my daddy and the whole granddaddy [reference] and all that stuff, but I did pull from all that," Alan says. "A lot of those lyrics are factual and are semi-[factual]. That title one day just came from nowhere, and it sounded like a song. I just started writing, so obviously I started pulling from real things that I knew about, then embellished them a little bit, I guess. It gives it a little honesty."
"Small Town Southern Man" is included on the album Good Time, which appears in stores next Tuesday. It features a whopping 17 songs, all of them written entirely by Alan.