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After 20 years and 50 million album sales, Alan Jackson stands for just about everything that makes people huffy about mainstream country: pedal steel guitar, oom-pah bass lines, check-shirt fables and barefaced sentimentality.
Listen to a Jackson song, though, and you’re hearing something that tells millions of ‘ordinary’ Americans about themselves. And who thinks that’s easy? Freight Train comes straight down the rails of a much-loved tradition, the latest through traffic on a journey that has earned this self-effacing southerner an enviable reputation.
Long after the great age of songwriting in New York and Los Angeles, Nashville might be the last holdout...
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