Alan Jackson has performed the final show on his Last Call: One More For The Road Tour. Jackson wrapped up his tour in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an emotional moment for the Country Music Hall of Fame member.

“Y’all may have heard that I’m kind of winding down, “Jackson says, in a video shared on social media. “In fact, this is my last roadshow of my career. Y’all gonna make me tear up out here. I will say that this is my last road show out here, but we’re planning on doing a big finale show in Nashville next summer sometime. I just felt like I had to end it all where it all started, and that’s in Nashville, Tennessee, Music City, where country music was born. So I gotta do my last one there. But this is the last one out on the road for me.”

Jackson also reflected on the journey from living in Georgia to becoming one of country music’s biggest success stories.

“It’s been a long, sweet ride,” the Georgia native reflects. “It started 40 years ago this September. My wife and I drove to Nashville with an old U-Haul trailer, and chased this dream. It’s been a crazy ride. I’ve lived the American dream for sure, and I’m so blessed. Thank y’all so much for all your support of my music and coming to shows. It’s amazing how time and all that stuff works in your life. It all comes down to just one little three-minute song.”

By his own admission, Jackson’s career got off to a rough start. His first single, “Blue Blooded Woman,” out in 1989, failed to chart, leaving Jackson to think his career was over before it began. But his second one, “Here in the Real World,” became the first of many, many hits for the 66-year-old.

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“I worked hard to get a record deal in Nashville,” Jackson recalls. “I finally did, and we were so excited. We went in that summer of ’89 and recorded that first album. Put out that first single to radio, and just couldn’t wait to get it out there. It died a miserable death on the charts, and it was very sad.

“I came home from playing some little club or something to my wife, looking for a shoulder to cry on, and she looked up at me and said she was pregnant. Which was good, but it surprised both of us. We weren’t quite planning on that. I don’t know quite how it happened like that …Luckily the record label decided they were going to release this next song,” he adds with a laugh. “And they did, and I haven’t worked since.”

Jackson is retiring because of his health. In 2021, the Georgia native revealed he was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, a neurological disorder that affects his mobility.

“I’ve been touring for over 30 years, played everywhere, in countries and parts of the world,” Jackson said last June. “I’ve had a wonderful, wonderful career, and I’m getting into my twilight years … I enjoy spending more time at home, and don’t want to be away like I had been in my younger days. And I don’t tour as much now as I did of course ten years ago, but I think it’s getting time to start thinking about hanging it up full-time.”

Jackson is the recent recipient of the inaugural ACM Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award, given to him by his good friend, Reba McEntire.

“I came to Nashville with a paper sack full of songs and a crazy dream, and all these years later, I’m standing here receiving such an honor like this. It’s mind-blowing. I thank God all the time for all the people that have been a part of my life and career that have helped me get here and maintain it all this time.”

Find all of Jackson’s music at AlanJackson.com.