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Jake Owen paid tribute to legendary country star Alan Jackson, who recently announced his retirement from touring with a “big finale” planned for Nashville, Tennessee.
Owen played his guitar as he covered “Job Description,” which Jackson released on his 13-track studio album, Who I Am, in 1994. Owen said he found it “fitting” to share his rendition since Jackson recently announced his retirement, and called the song “one of my all time faves of Alan’s.
“I was lucky enough to travel the country in the summer of 2007 with Alan and [Brooks & Dunn] and I’ll always remember that feeling of watching my heroes,” he continued in his caption on Instagram on Monday evening (May 26). “I was also a 26 year old kid figuring it out. I think I’m still figuring it out all these years later, but this song has a whole new meaning to me now.”
“I sleep eighty miles an hour/ To the whining of a diesel down the interstate/ Dreamin' 'bout my little girls/ The easy chair that sits beside the fireplace/ Then we shut her down in another town/ Shower up and do just what we came to do/ Sing for the people/ Count the money and the miles back home to you”
Jackson, 66, played “my last road show” earlier this month at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He shared an emotional moment with the audience during the “Last Call: One More for the Road Tour” stop. His “big finale” will take place next year in Nashville; however, the details of that show have not been announced as of publication time on Tuesday (May 27).
“We just felt like we had to end it all where it all started, and that’s in Nashville, Tennessee – Music City – where country music lives. I gotta do the last one there,” Jackson said in a press release issued earlier this month. “This is the last one out on the road for me. …I just have to thank y’all for supporting my music all these years, coming to the shows, buying the records and having a good time with us. I’m so fortunate, so lucky.”