Alan Jackson's Good Time Out On March 4, 2008

Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Arista Records) - On March 4 Alan Jackson, one of Country music's greatest songwriters and singers, will release GOOD TIME, his seventeenth album which contains, coincidentally, seventeen great new songs, one a duet with Martina McBride, all written by Jackson.
Loose, inventive, traditional, high-spirited, sad, intense, laid-back, clear as a bell, GOOD TIME, which reunites Jackson with longtime producer, Keith Stegall, is a great Alan Jackson hang. The strong lead single from the album, "Small Town Southern Man", is No 4 in Billboard and Radio & Records and No 5 in Country Aircheck, respectively.

On March 1, Jackson will perform and answer audience questions on CMT's Invitation Only; on March 4 he will perform on the Today Show; and on April l4, he will perform on the CMT Awards. On Friday, February 29, Alan Jackson will take over SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Prime Country channel as host for five days which includes a preview of the new album. He will be on the cover of Country Weekly on sale March l0, in Time Magazine, People, the LA Times and Chicago Tribune next week and was featured on the cover of the NY Times Arts & Leisure Sunday February 24.

On GOOD TIME said Jackson, "I felt like I wanted something that had some fun on it, because when I play in concert people still want to hear songs like 'Chattahoochee' and 'Don't Rock the Jukebox'. It's why I wanted to call it 'Good Time', even though the whole album's not a bunch of party songs."

With its seventeen straight-up original tunes related but not limited to what Jackson calls "fun," GOOD TIME is his most ambitious demonstration of how - whether working with the great '60s-based country-soul of "When the Love Factor's High" the strummed memories of "1976," the deceptive dittiness of "I Still like Bologna," the harmonica flecked "Never Loved Before," a duet with Martina McBride, or the Nashville elegance of "I Wish I Could Back Up" - the country song, in Alan Jackson's hands, is capable of all things.
"There isn't another male country artist of any age right now who can match him," wrote CMT's Chet Flippo.