American country music superstar Alan Jackson was born October 17, 1958 in
Newnan, Georgia. In his twenties, Johnson was working as a car salesman when he
first started writing songs and moved to Nashville to launch his professional
career. Initially he worked in a mail room, but Glen Campbell heard him and
helped him get a record deal with Arista who issued his first official album,
1990’s Here In The Real World. This gave him his first Number 1 hit with “I'd
Love You All Over Again”, setting him on his way to becoming one of the
biggest-selling country acts of the modern era, c...