{"id":49071,"date":"2026-05-21T06:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=49071"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:55:16","slug":"do-you-remember-when-alan-jackson-protested-the-acms-by-having-his-drummer-play-with-no-drumsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-videos\/2026\/05\/do-you-remember-when-alan-jackson-protested-the-acms-by-having-his-drummer-play-with-no-drumsticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When Alan Jackson Protested The ACMs By Having His Drummer Play With No Drumsticks?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the ACMs this past Sunday, it got us thinking about the time\u00a0<strong>Alan Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0got very upset with the ACM\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1994, the Academy wanted Alan to perform his song with a backing track.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, Alan is old school, and he hated that idea, but he was contractually obligated to perform, so his way of protesting was sending out his drummer to play the song WITH NO DRUMSTICKS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drummer was just flailing away up there, no drumsticks, playing the best pre-recorded song of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alan Jackson &quot;Gone Country&quot; live at the 1994 ACM Awards\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEPNgJ17kGQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the ACMs this past Sunday, it got us thinking about the time\u00a0Alan Jackson\u00a0got very upset with the ACM\u2019s. In 1994, the Academy wanted Alan to perform his song with a backing track.\u00a0 Well, Alan is old school, and he hated that idea, but he was contractually obligated to perform, so his way of protesting","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[467,508,7358,7357],"class_list":["post-49071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-videos","tag-acm-awards","tag-alan-jackson","tag-drumsticks","tag-gone-country"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 14:05:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-videos\/2026\/05\/do-you-remember-when-alan-jackson-protested-the-acms-by-having-his-drummer-play-with-no-drumsticks\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49077,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071\/revisions\/49077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}