Gone Country (song)

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Name = Gone Country


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Artist = Alan Jackson
Album = Who I Am
Released = 1994
Format = CD single
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Genre = Country
Length = 4:20
Label = Arista
Writer = Bob McDill
Producer = Keith Stegall
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Last single = "Livin' on Love"
(1994)
This single = "Gone Country"
(1994)
Next single = "Song for the Life"
(1995)
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"Gone Country" is the title of a song by American country music artist Alan Jackson. Released in late 1994, it was the third single from his fourth studio album, "Who I Am". As with that album's first two singles ("Summertime Blues" and "Livin' on Love"), "Gone Country" reached the top of the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, a position that it held for one week.

"Gone Country" served as a commentary on the country music scene, [cite web |url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/jackson_alan/bio.jhtml |title=Alan Jackson biography |accessdate=2008-02-04 |work=Country Music Television] illustrating three examples of other singers (a lounge singer in Las Vegas, a folk rocker, and a "serious composer schooled in voice and composition"), all of whom find that their respective careers are failing, and as a result, they decide to begin performing country music instead.

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* [http://music.yahoo.com/Alan-Jackson/Gone-Country/lyrics/1072793 Lyrics] at Yahoo! Music