Beginning Saturday (March 15) , the countdown of influential artists will be released one by one each week on Hot 20 Countdown CMT , starting with number 40 and ending with No. 1 in December.
Each musician or band influential ranked based on a survey by the artist CMT among the biggest stars in country music. The ballot is not limited to artists in the country, so that in the course of 2014, the WCL All- Time Top 40 highlights artists of all genres that influence the biggest names in the country.
Fittingly, there's a three-way tie for No. 40 between Alan Jackson, Carrie Underwood and Aerosmith.
Dustin Lynch, Deana Carter, The Band Perry, Luke Bryan and Sara Evans were among the admirers of the man behind 35 No. 1 songs and numerous awards for his music and songwriting. Check out what they had to say.
“Alan, it's one of my favorite composers of all time and always will be, " Lynch said.”To think that a man can go to the city and three or four albums later, he is still pulling songs out of the cassettes that brought to the city with him -
I mean, the caliber of the song, be not surrounded by large Nashville songwriters they had. Brought his bag of tricks with him to the city and began to pull them forever. "
" To maintain a career in the 20’s," he continued, "we must evolve, but true to yourself and Alan has stayed relevant from the moment your first couple of years in the city now. He is still making great albums, so you have to admire that and try to be. "
In fact, Carter remembers when Jackson chose her as the opening act for his big arena tours.
"That was a couple of years from what is really taking a chance on me and put me in front of thousands and thousands of people. And I owe so much. Was reinstalled you need to write your songs and just stick to her the art and what you do see him do that every night and see the influence ,
how it touched people Although I recorded external songs and some very important [ songs ] as "Strawberry Wine" and " danced anyway 'and all that. . - That has made some, too - . I felt akin to him in that Knowing who you are and stick to that and creative makes a priority. "
Similarly, The Band Perry is forever grateful to the “dear soul “to give them a chance on the road too.
“In fact it was the first artist to invite us to go on tour," Kimberly Perry said with a smile. “He was a great believer early in the band, and never forgets the first time we got to meet Alan.”
You recounting how the group sat backstage at the first concert where they opened for him, the three remember being in awe to see a video montage of Jackson No. 1 songs.
"It was like a five minute video. It was just one after another after another," Kimberly said.
“He wrote all," interjected his brother and band mate Neil.
"Amazing,” he continued with his sister. "Like all of them. And then he played. And we got to meet him after the show. And he was so tall, quiet but commanding presence, and was so great to sit under his wing and experience on that tour that comes to the right of the doors. "
Fellow Georgia native Bryan reiterated the same sentiments and said it was Jackson, which provided not only inspiration, but a soundtrack of your life.
“Alan, spoke the language of country music for me, being a guy from Georgia," Bryan said. "I remember when I was in when I heard ' Chattahoochee ' for the first time, and I just remember going, ' This guy has written the soundtrack to my life and my summer and summers to come. "
What's more, Evans is also deeply connected with Jackson's music and respects its authenticity.
"I feel like I relate musically because he really loves sad - ... Very very heartbreaking country songs I mean, he is able to go to that dark place I love to go to that dark place when I'm choosing songs , and I like really sing about pain and so does Alan Jackson.
But I can also sing ' Chattahoochee ' and ' not rock the Jukebox, as I will ' Suds in the Bucket, because you cannot always sing those heartbreaking songs” .
"It's a sort of father of male country music singer," he added. “He is so authentic, and I think I always come back to be authentic. And you can tell whether or not someone who is real, and the ability to compose songs of Alan Jackson leaves me quite far because when you meet him and you spend any time talking to him, he's so shy. 's almost as if he’s that old well, you know, ' Yes, ma'am, no ma’am, yes, ma’am, "but it's like something takes over your body when you feel write those songs, and it's like he's a genius.”
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