Standing on a small stage with his wife and three daughters in the Hall of Fame on Wednesday, the theme of the new museum exhibit - "Alan Jackson: 25 Years of Keeping It Country" - admitted that he had not yet seen what the curators had done "all that."
The extensive collection of articles, from his childhood tricycle a plaque marking the 50 million discs sold, continues Jackson, 55, from his childhood in a small town Newnan, Georgia, to stardom in Nashville - a journey that began with wife Denise, 54.
"We moved to Nashville 30 years ago," he told the small crowd of family, friends, staff and music industry VIPs on Wednesday night. "We drive on Monteagle Mountain on [Interstate] 24 leaving behind Georgia and entry into Tennessee, driving an old International Harvester Scout and U-Haul trailer with everything we had there. Had a sack full of songs I was naive enough enough to think he could do something with. it is difficult to believe that it has happened and I am included in this large building with many legends. "
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After a champagne toast superstar, Denise took the microphone and added :. "We love that the title of the exhibition is" Keeping It Country 'That phrase was begun in our lives with the great George Jones. Whenever I would write all correspondence to Alan, which always ended with the words "keep it country. '"
A note from Jones is just one of the hundreds of items on display on the third floor of the museum. As they got their first look, Jackson, Denise and daughters Mattie, 24, Ali, 21, and Dani, 17, were for fun and sentimental turns on his Grammy for "Where Were You (When the world stopped turning)" along the original handwritten letters.
Also on display for the family to see? ACM and CMA awards, his trophy induction Grand Ole Opry, the jacket he wore when he signed his recording contract in 1989, waterskiing rode the video "Chattahoochie" his bike childhood and cycling, and hats, jackets and one -up signature line of his ripped jeans.
"The house was so crowded it was getting to be embarrassing," Jackson admitted. "It's good to have a lot of these things out of the house, and much better than it looks here."
Denise agreed and asked, "Do we have to take it back?"
"Alan Jackson: 25 Years of Keeping It Country" will remain on display until March 15, 2015, Jackson will take the stage in the new CMA Theater Museum as its 2014 artist-in-residence, on October 8 and 22.
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