{"id":111783,"date":"2026-07-07T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/uncategorized\/2026\/07\/alan-jacksons-farewell-tour-raises-2-25-million-for-cmt-research\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:04:41","slug":"alan-jacksons-farewell-tour-raises-2-25-million-for-cmt-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/alan-jacksons-farewell-tour-raises-2-25-million-for-cmt-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Jackson\u2019s Farewell Tour Raises $2.25 Million For CMT Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boomsite.fm\/alan-jacksons-farewell-tour-raises-2-25-million-for-cmt-research?category=Country%2CFormat%20News\"><\/a><strong>Alan Jackson&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0final tour,\u00a0<em>Last Call: One More for the Road<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cmtrf.org\/alan-jacksons-final-tour-raises-2-25-million-for-cmt-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raised more than $2.25 million for the CMT Research Foundation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson, who was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2019, donated a portion of ticket sales to the foundation, with fan donations and matching contributions boosting the total. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CMTRF CEO Laura MacNeill said the funds will support research into potential treatments for the currently incurable neurological condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;For the three million people living with CMT, this isn&#8217;t just a dollar number. It&#8217;s momentum. Alan Jackson&#8217;s Last Call tour introduced thousands of people to CMT who had never heard of it before.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson&#8217;s final concert took place on June 27 in Nashville. A live album and NBC special are both planned for later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaQiJrVDmGm\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Jackson&#8217;s\u00a0final tour,\u00a0Last Call: One More for the Road, raised more than $2.25 million for the CMT Research Foundation. Jackson, who was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2019, donated a portion of ticket sales to the foundation, with fan donations and matching contributions boosting the total. CMTRF CEO Laura MacNeill said the funds will support","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":86835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[1191,12327,12452,12453],"class_list":["post-111783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-alan-jackson","tag-charcot-marie-tooth-disease","tag-cmt-research-foundation","tag-last-call-one-more-for-the-road"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 19:39:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/alan-jacksons-farewell-tour-raises-2-25-million-for-cmt-research\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111784,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111783\/revisions\/111784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}