Country music icon calls it quits touring, but there’s one more show: ‘Y’all gonna make me tear up’
Alan Jackson confirmed Saturday his concert in Milwaukee was his last, but the country music icon did say there was one more show to perform.
During the final show of his “Last Call: One More For the Road Tour,” Jackson said he retired from touring.
However, the 66-year-old announced one final concert set for the summer of 2026.
“Y’all may have heard that I’m kinda winding down, and in fact this is my last road show of my career,” Jackson said.
“Y’all gonna make me tear up out here. But I will say, this is my last road show out here, but we’re planning on doing a big finale show in Nashville next summer sometime,” the singer went on to say. “It just felt like I had to end it all where it all started. And that’s in Nashville, Tenn. Music City.”
Last June, Jackson explained why he decided to call it quits.
“I’ve been touring for over 30 years, you know, played everywhere in the country and parts of the world,” Jackson posted on X almost a year ago. “Have had a wonderful career, and getting into my twilight years, and all my daughters are grown, and I got one grandchild and one on the way. Enjoy spending more time at home, and don’t want to be away like I had to be in my younger days, and I don’t tour as much now as I did 10 years ago. But I think it’s getting time to start thinking about hanging it up full-time.”
In 2021, he revealed, per Taste of Country, was living with a degenerative nerve condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, which causes nerve damage, primarily in the arms and legs.
Last month, Jackson took advantage of the stage and had his wife of 45 years join him during a performance to celebrate her birthday. He was performing a festival at Georgetown, Texas’ Two Step Inn.
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