{"id":14540,"date":"2021-05-17T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=14540"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:52:29","slug":"alan-jackson-on-why-he-waited-so-long-to-release-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/alan-jackson-on-why-he-waited-so-long-to-release-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Jackson On Why He Waited So Long To Release New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5jAHOJkfjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Alan Jackson released his first album of all-new music in six years on Friday, May 14th.<\/p>\n<p>The project is called Where Have You Gone, and it includes a whopping 21 songs.<\/p>\n<p>Alan didn&#8217;t intend to wait so long in between albums, but along the way he and his family suffered some big losses, including that of his mother and his son-in-law, which really affected him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For several years there I really didn&#8217;t feel like writing at all and recording, and last spring I was ready, and we booked studio time and then the virus thing hit and everything kind of came to a halt, and then later in the summer I called Keith Stegall, my producer, and said, &#8216;Hey, man, I&#8217;m tired of waiting on this thing. Let&#8217;s just do it,&#8217; so we decided to go ahead and get everbody in the studio whether they had to wear a mask or a helmet or whatever they had to wear to get in there and cut this thing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where Have You Gone is Alan&#8217;s first studio album since 2015&#8217;s Angels and Alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Jackson released his first album of all-new music in six years on Friday, May 14th.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[195,2953,2954,2955],"class_list":["post-14540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-alan-jackson","tag-drive-for-daddy-gene","tag-where-have-you-gone","tag-youll-always-be-my-baby"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 01:44:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/alan-jackson-on-why-he-waited-so-long-to-release-new-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}