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I know exactly where you were in your lifetime, depending on when they came out. And for me, grew up listening to Alan Jackson and Chattahoochee for sure is on the list. But like, I know exactly where I was when Chattahoochee was playing on the radio. Never really thought I'd meet Alan Jackson. I have two stories. One, he sent a guitar to me, and on the guitar he signed it Alan Jackson. And he wrote Keep a Country with parentheses around it. Now I debated if he wanted just me to keep a country. Like I already AM or if he was mad at me and going, hey, you need to keep a country. Never really got an answer to that. But I still have that guitar number two. It was the ACMs. I believe it might have been the 50th because it was in Texas. And so it was very special because it was 50 years of the ACMs and there was a big outdoor show and I was doing stand up comedy and it was a lot of artists on this outdoor stage just kind of intermittently playing. And as the evening got later, more people showed up. And it's pretty cool because I was one of the artists that was performing at the end of the night. And it was almost all music except for me. And so I'm up and I have like a 20 minute set to the thousands of people that are there waiting to see Alan Jackson, because he's playing right after me now. At this point, I'd never met Alan Jackson. And so I'm doing my set and I look over in the corner and I see a extremely tall guy in blue jeans. It looks exactly like I look now, standing there, very quiet, very solemn, just waiting for his turn to go on stage. So I finished my set and I did okay. Wasn't my best set because it was an outdoor environment. Also, I'm only mildly funny. So I walk over to the side And I say, Mr. Jackson, I'm Bobby Bones. Always been a big fan. Just wanted to say hi. Now he's a tall guy, just a big fella in general. And he looked down at me, said, saw you out there telling jokes. You the guy on the radio too? I said, yes, sir, I am. He said, how about that? That's it. Then he walked off and played it. But he gave me a solid. How about that? So, you know, I've been kind of confused on the R2 interactions. Hey, keep it country. And how about that? But you know what? I've got two real interactions with freaking Alan Jackson. He did my radio show a couple times, but he was on Zoom both times, which again, why wouldn't. Maybe Alan Jackson hates me. I don't think he does. And even if he did, I love Alan Jackson. I'm a massive fan and we're talking about his music now because he just performed his last show ever and it was a pretty cool show where he had a lot of artists that came up and performed before him, like open for him that are massive in country music now. Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, you could go on and on. And I believe they're going to Release that as a live album and also stream that show. So Pretty Cool deserves respect. Country Music hall of Fame. A couple cool stories about him. His wife helped him be discovered at the airport, which is kind of cool. So Denise Jackson was working as a flight attendant in the early 80s when she spotted freaking Glen Campbell in the boarding area of the airport. And so she worked up the nerve to walk over and pitch her husband, Alan Jackson to Glenn Campbell. Rhinestone Cowboy, Glen Campbell, Wrecking Crew, Glen Campbell, like that dude. And she's like, hey, he's really good. He can sing. I really think you should take a. Take a chance on him. And so what Glen Campbell did is he gave her the publishing company's card that he owned. And so she took that, they made the calls, and eventually that was it. Like, that's how the first deal happened for Alan Jackson. It led to his first songwriting deal and eventually his move to Nashville because they were still in Georgia at the time. It's kind of the Jerry Maguire pitch of country music. Except this worked and it was his wife doing the pitching, not him. But you get it. It's pretty cool story. His wife at the airport, who was a flight attendant. Also, just seeing Glenn Campbell in the airport, like that will be crazy too. So that's number one. Another thing about Alan Jackson, when you think about him, you think about the cowboy hat. You think about the mustache, the cowboy hat. I would say it's kind of a cover up more than it is a staged costume. So as a teenager, Alan Jackson ran through a glass door. And when he did, he had a huge scar on his forehead. So he started wearing the hat to hide it and then just never stopped. And 40 years later, it's again, the hat and the mustache. The most recognizable visual things about Alan Jackson, really one of the most famous cowboy hats in country music. Who else do you put there? Garth, Alan Jackson, like, that's it. And it all started because he was a little self conscious as a teenager. Really wasn't a stylist idea or anything else. So let's talk Alan Jackson. Let's talk his songs. We're going to start at number 10. She's got the rhythm, I got the blues. Oh, What a jam. 1992. She's got the rhythm, parentheses. I love a good parenthesis. And I got the blues. It was from the album. A lot about living parentheses and a little about love. We're double parentheses in here. This is an amazing day. So he wrote that with Randy Boudoir, and this was a number one song. And I Think it was like his seventh number one song. It was. It was up in the mix there. The interesting thing about this song is that it's upbeat. Yes, but it's actually a heartbreak song. Something Alan Jackson was kind of good at was making songs that kind of sounded peppy but actually were sad. And so he loved writing songs that sounded happy if you were just listening and not paying attention. But if you listen to them, they really weren't happy at all. And this song was about getting your heart broken because she's got the rhythm and I got the blues. At number 10 on the greatest Alan Jackson songs. At number nine. And it's going to be hard for me not to sing every one of them, but I give you just a little taste and a little off key. Okay? At number nine from 1990, Jason, that neon rainbow. Oh, what a jam. From here in the real world, Alan Jackson wrote it with Jim McBride. It's going to be hard for me not to say, man, that song is the jam after every song too. So please indulge me if I do. This is an autobiographical look at him just chasing the dream and chasing that neon rainbow. You know, from him playing small town bars, which he talks about in the song, to hoping for a record deal, it very much mirrors his journey from rural Georgia to Nashville. So chasing that neon rainbow he chased it. He found it before being famous. Alan Jackson, in case you didn't know, when he moved to Nashville, worked in a mailroom, and this song is that story. So at number nine, chasing that neon rainbow. All right, we're at number eight from 1994, Living on Love. And I can only sing so much or I will be fined or charged. So even though it's a short snippet and it's a little off key, I can only give you so much or Netflix or the Alan Jackson estate will find me dramatically. And you know what? I like the money that I've made. So at number eight, living on Love from the album who I Am. Here's the cool thing about this song. It was written solely by Alan Jackson. It's one of the greatest country songs ever that Alan Jackson wrote by himself. So, one, it's amazing that he just sat down and wrote it. But two, the money he made because he wrote the whole thing by himself. In Nashville, most songs are written by two, mostly three people at a time. You know, this town very much is lunch pail. Go to work, you're in a room with other writers, you go in at 10am, you're done by three, everybody's got an idea. Two, it's factory. You get out with a song and this whole town's like that. And a lot of times whenever you go in with these folks, sometimes you don't know them, you've never met them before. You're being set up by your publishing company. So most songs are co writes. Now a lot of Alan Jackson songs were co writes. Even then you're going to see there's a lot of just two person co writes with Alan Jackson. But for him to do this by himself, awesome. So it's one of his signature love songs. Basically it's about celebrating couples who make it through life with not a lot of money but plenty of love. Obviously it was another number one hit, Just Living on Love. A lot of people think that it was inspired by his relationship with his wife Denise, who he married before he had fame or money, which if we go back to the airport, that's what's up. So Alan Jackson, number eight with Living on Love. Number seven, Midnight in Montgomery. It's hard for me not to put this. This is one I consider for number one. And I think, listen, it's not a deep cut because I think if you're an Alan Jackson fan or just a country music fan, you know the song. So I'm not throwing out a B side that you've never heard before. It wasn't one of his biggest chart hits. But if you love Alan Jackson, you love the song for a couple of reasons. It's a tribute to Hank Williams. That's what the song is. Kind of sonically haunting. It's kind of a cool way to say it's kind of a ballad. Huh. That's cool. I like that I did that song. It's sonically haunting. I want to use that somewhere else. And if you do hear me use it somewhere else, tell on me that I've already used it once before. So it's a tribute to Hank Williams and it's basically him imagining encountering the ghost of Hank Williams outside of Montgomery, Alabama, where Hank Williams died. I thought about this. At number one, it's that good of a song. But whenever I do these lists, there's a bit of a formula because a little bit chart success, a little bit album success, a little bit of lasting power, all these factor in. But it easily could have been number one. Midnight of Montgomery freaking jams. And it's at number seven here. At number six from the year 2001, where I come from, that's a jam from the album when somebody loves you was solely Written by Alan Jackson. Guy's just counting, counting dollar bills. He's like Pablo Escobar. Had so much money, he just go out into a field somewhere in Columbia and there's just money in a field. And he even forgot he had it there. That's what Alan Jackson's like, I bet. Just so much money from writing all these songs. But he wrote that by himself. Where I come from is funny too. And Alan Jackson wasn't always the funny guy, rarely was the funny guy, but when he did, it worked. And even songs like Itty Bitty didn't make the list. But like there are songs where he does show his humorous side. And so that's what this was. It's kind of being funny. But it was about southern culture, small town life. This is. If I were making a list of Alan Jackson sing along songs. This is definitely a top three. Cornbread and chicken, front porch picking, you know what I'm saying? If I sing too much of it, I'm get fined, but you know what I'm saying? Number six, where I come from. Also, this mustache itches. For those that are just listening and you're not watching, I committed to the bit. So I've got my cowboy hat on and I have an Alan Jackson blonde mustache taped to my face. That's probably going to make me break out when I take this off. But not only that, I look like Sam Elliot. I really tried Frylan Jackson and I think I ended up. If Sam Elliott was the lead singer of Weezer, I think that's where I am at this point while I do this list. So if you're just listening, just know I look ridiculous. If you're watching. Thank you for watching. At number five. When you think of that season after spring, that's summer, obviously. And you think about, well, you wish it were summer longer so it makes you a little blue. That's a terrible way to set this song. Summertime Blues. You get it? There ain't no cure for the summertime blues. I was really trying there. Obviously I don't have this written out. I'm just going off the top of my head here. But at number five on my list is Summertime Blues from 1994. The album who I Am. This is. It's a cover. Who knew? I didn't know. Whenever I saw he didn't write it, I thought, oh, cheaped out, huh? Got a little lazy one day. No, it was a cover. It's a great song. He put a country spin on one of the most famous rock songs from Way way back in the day took it all the way to number one. It had already been a hit for Eddie Cochran for I Don't Know who Blue Cheer Is and for the who. This song had four lives, which is crazy. And all four of the songs were right because there ain't no cure for the summertime blues. So it is a country classic and it didn't even start as a country song. That's pretty legit. I love when I do something about somebody I love and I learn something new. And if you're a music snob and you knew that, you're like, how did you not know that? Suck it. I didn't know that and I know a lot but suck it because I didn't know that. And I want to be honest with you, if you're watching and listening right now, I did go and listen to the other versions though, after I found that out. It's pretty cool. Alan, you did a good job. You did a good job on that song. Alan. I know you're watching. All right, hang tight. The Bobby cast will be right back In Working forests across America, professionals like Kit are committed to planting more trees than they harvest. Planting more trees than we harvest is important because it ensures our sustainability. 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Now, before I tell you what song it is one, it's, it's very catchy, upbeat, it's fun. But it being on Home Improvement completely made this my number one song. And not because I look at it and go, well, if it was on Home Improvement, it must be awesome. No, I was completely a 100% home improvement junkie back in the day. And when Alan Jackson went on Tool Time on Home Improvement, it was worlds colliding. It's like when Urkel went over to Full House. You guys remember that crap? You're like, what is Steve Urkel doing with Stephanie Tanner? TGIF did that a lot though, in case you didn't know. They. They're pretty smart because they had a lot of their shows mixed a little bit because Urkel also went to Step by Step. Oracle's everywhere on tgif. And fun fact about tgif, it's hard to say TGIF with his mustache on, but fun fact about tgif, shows like Full House, Step by Step. What's another one? The guy wrote the. Let me get there. It's a rare condition this day and age. The Winslows. I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna get there. Be any good news on the newspaper page. Loving Die. I think the title of the show is not in the song. And that's really troubling me. All right, team, name of the show, Family Freaking Matters. Golly Urkel song. It's the Erkel song. And also Urkel wasn't even supposed to be a big part of that show. Like halfway through the season, he, he shows up in an episode and he was so loved by the audience, they thought, well, guess we got to keep him in the show. And then he became the biggest part of the show. My point about the song, the, the songs they Were all sang by the same guy. He nailed all those. What if. That's your job. Got a new show. Jim, can you do a song? No problem. Anyway, back to Mercury Blues and Home Improvement. I always judged people because you had two choices. It was Home Improvement or Frasier. And I thought, what do you read books? Are you rich? Why are you watching Frazier? How do you watch Frazier over Home Improvement? Like, I really thought those people were real snooty. If you picked Frasier over Home Improvement. But on Tool Time, which was the show that Tim the Tool Man Taylor did on Home Improvement, him and Al Borland. This is itching my face so bad, guys. I have to scratch my fake mustache for a second. Oh, my God. Now the hair is getting into my nose. Alan Jackson came to play live on Tool Time, and they rolled a car out. If I had money, I tell you what I'd do. I go downtown, buy a Mercury or two. Crazy about a Mercury. I freaking loved Mercury Blues. And another fun fact. Alan Jackson didn't write it, but it's also a cover. How about that crap? So Home Improvement has it. It's awesome. If you go to the video, shadowy, hard, hard to see that it really is him. But Keith Urban's playing guitar in the video now. Is he really playing guitar? No, because he didn't play guitar in the song. They just needed somebody that looked like a guitar player, like a rock star. So Keith Urban is the guy that they have in the music video that that's faking like, he's playing guitar. And Keith Urban has a story about, like, mine from the first time he met Alan Jackson, where he was like, oh, Mezel Jackson. I'm Keith Urban. And then Alan Jackson was like, why are you talking with an accent that makes no sense? Are you a hobbit? And he's like, well, I'm not. My accent sucks. It's not actually like, Keith's, but Keith said, if I remember correctly, he was like, all right. Then, like, that was their whole interaction. And later they became really good friends. I just think Alan Jackson's a man of few words. So number four, Mercury Blues, written by Casey Douglas and Robert Geddins. It was written in the 1940s. And what I like is Alan Jackson would just find songs that he loved, even if they weren't country, and he would just transform them into amazing country music songs. And I think most people know this. I'm assuming you watching or listening. I'm assuming you know this, but not everybody does, because I was talking about this song with someone and they thought it was about Mercury, the planet. This is not a solar system song. It's about a car. So the Mercury in the title refers to the Mercury automobile, not the planet. Mercury Jam. My favorite Alan Jackson song is Mercury Blues number three. You know, Chattahoochee is going to be on the list. I'm going to put it at three. If I would have put it at one, first of all, I would have been a poser. Because if you have an artist that you really like and you put their most famous song as your favorite, you're a poser and you're a liar. So that's the true story of any major artist. If you say, man, I'm a crazy John Mayer fan. And I go, what's your favorite song? And you go, bubblegum tongue. I'm like, you're full of crap. And it's not even called bubblegum tongue. It's called your bodies in Wonderland. And that can't be your favorite song if you're a John Mayer fan. You have to pick something a little more. I'm not going to say B, B side. But for me, my favorite John Mayer song, because he's my favorite artist of all time is Stop this Train, Stop this train, I want to get off and go home again. It's about just getting older. It's about life coming at you. My favorite lyric ever in any song from Stop this Train from John Mayer, it's, I'm so tired of getting older. I'm only good at being young. And you play a numbers game just to show that life has just begun. Parallel paraphrase there. But, like, I felt that because John Mayer was like, the kid, the genius kid, and he's getting older and his parents are getting older, and he's like, this is crazy. Stop this train, I want to get off. Favorite. I gotta have that lyric framed. I don't know where it is, but I do have it framed somewhere. Maybe in my house when I moved. I don't know. I think the mover stole stuff from me when we moved last time. That'd be a weird thing to steal because I haven't seen it in a while. But I do love that song. And if your favorite artist has a song and their biggest song is your favorite song, that's not your favorite artist and your poser. So Chattahoochee can't be your number one Alan Jackson song unless you're a casual, which it might be. Number three. Chattahoochee. He wrote that with Jim McBride. This is the definitive Alan Jackson song, though. I mean, the lick, the guitar lick at the beginning itself is all you need to hear to know Chattahoochee's on the music video, which you may not remember if you're younger, but for someone that grew up in the 90s and watched CMT, the water skiing epic, what's wild is those pants are in the Country Music hall of Fame. At least they were the last time that I was there. And I try to go once every year and a half or so. Great exhibit. If you come to Nashville, you should go to the Country Music hall of Fame. They don't pay me. Actually, I donate to them every year because it is so much fun and they change out the exhibits so often. I had a coach hit me up who is the head coach of a Division 1 big team, and he said, hey, I'm coming to town. What should I do now? I'm not a tour guide guy. I don't know. What do I know about Nashville? I live here. So I don't know the cool stuff that you do if you come here, because I don't do that stuff. But I said the one thing that you do if you come to Nashville is you go to the Country Music hall of Fame. And not only that, pay the extra for the guide. Best money you'll spend because you can walk through it and you can appreciate it. But if you have a guide that can tell you stories about the stuff and take you to the things that. That they don't want you to miss it, it's an epic experience. So this paid for by the Nashville Tourism Bureau? Not really. No money was changed. Actually, I give them money, but they had the exhibit on Alan Jackson and it still may be there. And it's his jeans from when he was water skiing. And they're kind of on a mannequin's legs. Mannequins legs. And in the video, they're dark. And I was confused why they were so light until I realized I'm stupid. And they were wet when they were dark in the music video. And the drier the jeans get, the lighter they get. But it had. It was them. It had the big holes in the pants. It's crazy to see. I know it ain't the Mona Lisa like the real one, but to see Alan Jackson's pants from the Chattahoochee video, that's pretty cool. I did see the Mona Lisa once. My wife and I went to Europe, and that thing's in Paris, right? In the Louvre. Went to a lot of museums. So I Think it's in the Lulu. So we go down, and I've only ever seen the Louvre, really, in Tom Hanks, the movie where he's like, I don't know. I read. Read the book, and they turned into a movie. And he's, you know, trying to figure out the Da Vinci Code. I got there. So we go to the Louvre, and we get the guide. I love getting a guide. My wife sometimes gets annoyed when we get a guide because I want to ask a lot of questions. And we go to the Louvre, and I say, I want to see the Mona Lisa. And they say, so does everybody else. That's why most people come here. And I say, okay, can we go now? Because I want to see it first. And they said, okay. So they walk us pretty far back to the back, and it's like 15 rows deep of people. And I've been told how super small it is because mostly people say, yeah, the Mona Lisa. It's much smaller in person. So in my mind, I expected that thing to be a postage stamp whenever I got back there. So here I am with my wife and a tour guide. We're in the Louvre, and we're going back to the Mona Lisa. And there's 15 rows deep, and you can't get right up on it. There's a glass wall that has the painting inside of it. There's a. Like a velvet rope probably five feet from it. Imagine like a club with a bouncer, because there is basically a bouncer, and you don't get to go through the rope. But they stand there and everybody has their phone over. They're taking pictures, and you're looking at it. What I remember about the size of it, because I was told it was so small my whole life. It was massive. So that's what I do about my wiener. So small. Tiny. So tiny. Oh, my God. So the Mona Lisa, eh? It's fine. It wasn't even famous, though. Like, that painting was not famous as a painting, as it was painted or even as it was sold. You know why that thing is so famous? Because somebody stole it and it was stolen. And when they hunted it down, it was like the Mona Lisa stolen. It wasn't that Da Vinci painted the thing, and people said, that is art. We're gonna make this the most famous painting ever. It's the great. No, it's that it got stolen and that made it more famous. That's crazy. Anyway, I saw it, took a picture of it. Pretty cool. Went and walked around the Louvre the rest of the day. Pretty neat. Experience. Okay. Anyway, we're at Chattahoochee. I saw those pants. That's how I got to that, the whole exhibit thing. So this is the song. If you're introducing someone to country music, they need to know Chattahoochee. And it's basically celebrating growing up in rural Georgia and everything that comes with small town summers. There's a couple lines in the song that are fun and kind of fun, but kind of creepy. Like not so creepy because good for him, but he was willing and she wasn't ready. Good. Maybe don't share that part of the experience. I was willing, she wasn't ready. So they settled for a burger and a grape snow cone. And you know what? He dropped off early. Good for him. Good guy. Like, just let it happen. Didn't go home. Rural Georgia for you. The video one CMA music video of the year. And he said many times that he hated filming the water skiing scenes because he wasn't really a water skier. What I know him from, mostly music video wise, is him water skiing. And he's like, I don't even really like water skiing. I'm not that good at it. And number two, one of the strongest starting songs. Now, before I tell you the song, a lot of these songs, you play it from the start. Like Chattahoochee, Mercury Blues, great guitar licks that you know the song by the first 10, 12 seconds of the song. This song, no guitar, it just fires off right from the start, from the chorus. Rare. And think about that. Rare that a song will start with the chorus. There's only a couple big ones and I'm sure there's many, many, many that I can think of. But I was talking to Steven Tyler once. Name drop Aerosmith lead singer. And we were talking about Sweet Emotion. Mustache is freaking itching me. I keep thinking there's a bug in my mouth and it's the hair from this 84 cent fake mustache. Anyway, hang tight. The Bobby cast will be right back. In. 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Savings based on the value of benefits included with experience beyond like entertainment and one year of AAA Classic and DashPass on us. Benefits may require activation. See plan for details. Get $100 via virtual prepaid MasterCard with eligible ported no cash access and expires in six months. Issued by Sunrise Banks and a member FDIC. Allow eight weeks Amazon Health AI presents painful thoughts why did I search the Internet for answers to my cold sore problem? Now I'm stuck down a rabbit hole filled with images of alarmingly graphic source in various stages of ooze. I can clear my search history, but I can never unsee that. Don't go down the rabbit hole. Amazon Health AI gets you the right care fast. Healthcare just got less painful. Wait, I came in for two things. How is this $47? All right, we're gonna need a plan here. Just start simple with bank of America Advantage Safe Balance Banking. No overdraft item fees, no monthly maintenance fee. 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This song pretty much became an unofficial anthem for country music fans who preferred classic country over pop influenced country. But that argument was fought then, it's fought now, It'll be fought in 10 years. That argument's Never actually settled. And what was traditional back then, 15 years before that was. It's weird, man. Don't get me started on the. That ain't country music. But don't rock the jukebox at number two on my list. I was at Disney World once. It's a cool story. And I worked on American Idol for four years. It was a really great four years for me. And on that show, I was a mentor to all the contestants once they got into around the top 24. So I was on every episode. And really, one of the reasons I was there is in case Ryan got sick, I had to fill in. I would have to fill in. And that did happen on one whole show I had to host. And then at times, just random spots with people. And rarely would I be in la and I'd have an off day because if we finished taping the show and did the live show, I would just come back home because I had the radio show to do, so was in la. It was getting near the end of the season, and we had two days. We were working one off day, and then we're back on for another day because we were shooting like two episodes that week. Never had an off day in la, except for this one time, and we had finished that first two days. And there's like a red carpet thing that you do afterward. Red carpet's weird because it's not that type of carpet. But you go and talk to the press after, and they're asking questions. And one of the guys from ABC came up and said, hey, you're staying in town, right? I said, yes, sir. He said, you should go to. I guess it's Disneyland in la. I'd never been to anything Disney at this point. And I said I was by myself. I said, I don't know. I don't. I don't have family or anything. He said, no, no, no, you work for Disney. You should go to Disneyland. And he gave me a number on the back of a card. So I called the number and it rang and they answered. Hello, it's Mickey. It's freaking Mickey. Who answered the call? No, it wasn't. But it was somebody who worked at Disneyland who does VIP packages. And I said, hey, my name's Bobby Bones. I was told to call. I work for American Idol. Can I come to Disneyland? And they said, yep, be at this place, you know, 10:00am we'll meet you there. I get to Disneyland, It's a little bit of a drive. And so I drive out there. I'm by myself. It's kind of weird. I'm an adult man, going to Disneyland by myself. Creepy mouthwear or a trench coat, you know, I mean. And so I go, and a person meets me. That's one of those VIP guides that kind of walks you around the park and you get to cut all the lines and stuff. And she's so nice, and she's like, okay, what do you want to do? And I'm like, I don't know. I've never been here, so let's just go ride some rides. So I'm by myself. I'm not by myself anymore. I do have a person with me that's a worker, thank God. And so we're going, and we're cutting the line of every line. This is a Sunday, because we'd be back on, on Monday. We're cutting every line, riding every ride, going underneath rides sometimes to get to other rides so there's no people there. And I ride this. There's like a big screen, and you're on. You're tossing you around. And I get off this thing. And she says, okay, we're not going to go out the traditional way. Follow me. We go through a tunnel. We come out the top, and there's another guide with another, like, family. So it's me, my guide, a family. And it looks like two women and a kid. As I get closer, I realize it was not a woman. It was Steven Tyler, who looked like a woman from Dude Looks Like a Lady. You know what I'm saying? And so I see Steven Tyler, and I'd spent like three instances with him, never for more than 15 minutes. I don't expect Steven Tyler to remember anything about me because that guy's been famous for so long, since the late 70s. And we're at Disneyland, and so I don't want to bother him, but we're walking right beside each other and I say, hey, Steven Tyler, I'm Bobby Bones. Wow, Bobby Bones. How you been? How's Nashville? Immediately knew and remember me. It was crazy. It was crazy. Steven Tyler was like, Bobby Bones. He talks like that in real life, too. But he's so nice. Steven Tyler was so nice, so that's pretty cool. And he told me a story once about whenever Aerosmith was relatively new, so not just starting out, because you got to think they were big in the 70s, too, that Freddie Mercury would ride on the tour bus with them before Queen got big and, like, take a bunk, like by himself. That's crazy, because he would go on before Aerosmiths with Queen, before Queen blew up Come on, that's wild. So don't rot the jukebox. Starts with the chorus. It's my number two song. It's still a jam today. And it starts off. Next time you hear that song, just think about. Oh, it was chorus first, which is pretty rare. That it doesn't do verse, chorus, boom, starts with the chorus number one. Here we are. Have you thought about what songs? I haven't said yet because now time for, in my opinion, the greatest Alan Jackson song. And Alan Jackson is for sure a top five artist of the 90s. Wherever you want to insert them. For sure. You got to go in no order with these three. Garth, Shania, George Strait. Like, for sure they're top three. But you can argue four, it's Alan Jackson. So what's the number one song from a top five artist of the 90s? Well, it's not even a song from the 90s. He put the song out in 2003. This song was also solely written by Alan Jackson. This song makes me emotional sometimes. Basically, it's a reflection of an entire marriage, from being young to getting older to raising kids, growing older together. I mean, remember when. Remember when 30 seems so old? Oh, my God, that song is awesome. If you don't feel something when you hear that song, turn this off, leave, go. If you do feel something, we're in the right place together and I'm glad you're here. Number one, remember when. What a jam. He wrote it as a tribute to his wife, Denise. She appears with him in the music video. It is such a great song. It's number one for me for so many reasons. That's what's up. There are more songs I did. There are songs that I. I really thought, how can I not put this in? And I made a list of his top 10 songs that I didn't put in. We'll start at number 20. I'm just kidding. But where were you when the world stopped turning? It was hard for me not to put that in because it was a great song that was specific to 911 in that time and nailed it. Obviously, perfect song. But when I hear that song, I think 9 11, like that to me is such a. Because people are going to say, how did you not put that song in? And you're right. Except this is my list, so you're wrong about my list. But that song is such a time capsule of that time. And that's why I didn't put it in because I think it makes me sad. It makes me think of 9 11. I don't know. I didn't put it in. Also, Drive was one that I really fought with that Drive was a jam too, but they didn't make it. But my number one song. Remember when Alan Jackson has 26 number one songs? Now he has 36 if you count like all the chart. There's like weird charts and airplay here. But not Bill. I just went straight Billboard country charts. So he has maybe 26. 26, 27. I love you all over again. Don't rock the jukebox someday, Dallas. Love's got a hold on you. Jam. Really thought about that one in the oldest too. She's got the rhythm. Chattahoochee, Summertime blues Living on love. One that didn't make the list. That was on the initial list before I cut it down. She's gone country. Look at them boots. That was a jam too. Or when it comes to funny songs, I don't even know your name. That's a great Alan Jackson song. Tall Tall Trees. Are you kidding me? How did that not make the list, you idiot. That's a great song too. Another number one song. I'll try. Little Bitty there goes right on the money. It must be love. I'm reading all the number ones where I come from. Where were you in the world? Stop turning. Drive. Ah, Drive was good. I might have missed by not putting Drive in there. But it's five o' clock somewhere. That one. Not for me. Not a beach guy. Never drank. Doesn't really appeal to me. Never really a Buffett guy either. But it was a massive song. So it's five o' clock somewhere. Remember when Small town southern man, good time country boy. And if you're gonna count it with Zach Brown band as she's walking away. So. Which was kind of a jam. So those are my top 10 Alan Jackson songs I put in. Taking this mustache off. Oh, my God, thank you. That is. How's it hold on? What if I flip it like this? Flip it. Oh, there you go. Now it's like a beard. Yeah. How about that? You almost look like a California surfer. Yeah. Now I want to switch foot. Yeah. Hey, you want to know a fun fact I'd love? Please. Alan Jackson, please. Do you have a right? That's Brandon, by the way, behind the camera. Did you ever write with Alan Jackson? Never wrote with Alan Jackson. I put opened a few, like, festivals for him. Like, I played at like 11 in the morning and he played at 11 at night, you know? Yeah, but can you name a number one country song by another artist that Alan Jackson wrote. Hmm. I'm. We. We're going to be here a while if I have to guess. So can you give me a hint? All right. Because I don't know the answer just from that. Okay. It was a. It was a 90s country artist. Okay. Not as big, but, you know, had a bunch of hits. The artist. The artist. Okay. Do you want me to tell him? Tell you his name? No. I mean, is that the only hint you're going to give me? I mean, I don't know how to it. When you, when you hear the song, you're like, oh my God. That's, that's. That'd be. That have been a perfect Alan Jackson song. But it was a reject. He was like, I don't know. Give it to this guy. Okay, so let's play. Let me try to name the artist. Okay. What does the artist wear? He's. He had act. Had act? Yeah. Is. Okay. There's only a few. Then I'm gonna go diffie. Not a had act. How about Clay Walker? Is it Clay Walker? Boom. Oh, okay, good guess. What's the most Alan Jackson song that Clay Walker sings? Here's a hint. It starts with a chorus. Oh, if I can make a living. There you go. If I can make a living out of loving you I'd be a millionaire In a week or two I'll be doing. Oh, Alan Jackson wrote that. He wrote that. That's a good story. Dang. How about that? And now I have some sort of disease on my lip. And we talked about the top 10 Alan Jackson songs. What a day this has been. So thank you very much everybody. Don't forget, follow me over on Instagram @MrBobby Bones. Big shout out to Alan Jackson. If you watch this, remember me? Yeah. Okay, thank you. Bye everybody. Have a great rest of the day. Thanks for listening to the Bobbycast. Share this episode with a friend because they don't pay to advertise us. In working forests across America, professionals are committed to planting more trees than they harvest. People like Kit help us fulfill our mission and keep our working force healthy. Planting more trees than we harvest is important because it ensures our sustainability. Growing trees sustainably and maintaining biodiversity is a long term commitment. 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