Alan Jackson: A Different Outlook

In the past few years, Alan Jackson has made some changes in his life.  He sold the family’s Sweetbriar Farm, south of Nashville.  His Center Hill Lake house, where he once hosted a concert with Shania Twain, is now for sale.  He’s even sold a lot of his classic cars.  What’s behind all those lifestyle changes?  Alan talked about it with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton: “After Denise went through cancer, it made us stop and think about what’s important to us, and what we value, and what we want to do the rest of our lives, and it wasn’t for any reason other than that.  I think we just have a different outlook on things, and simplifying is part of it, and felt like we don’t really need all that any more.  So we’ll try to get rid of those things and figure out how we want to spend the rest of our life together, and a lot of that will end up unfolding when the girls get grown.  If they end up living in Nashville, we’ll be here all the time.  If they move to California, Denise will drag me out there all the time.  If they all end up in New York and have grandchildren, Denise will want to be there.  So I think we’re making plans for all that, and I’ll end up with some other lake place at some point.”

12-24 Alan3

Here’s a photo of Alan’s Sweetbriar Farm, while he sold last year.  It was on the market for a while, and Alan had an interesting story about the person who bought it: “That was a big piece of property, and we put it on the market at the worst time to sell it, people told us we’d never sell it, and this man shows up.  He was from Arkansas but he lived in California in wine country.  He’d made a lot of money recycling car parts.  He was older than me, a car collector like me, had grandchildren, was a businessman, worked all the time, and he found out his wife had cancer.  It changed everything for them.  He stepped down from running his company, and that’s when they decided to move here because of that.  They ended up buying that property and moving here, and it was all because of what she was going through.  So they moved in that house, and six months later, we found out Denise had cancer.  I thought that was very strange.”

Tags: alan

Category: Audio