A man in a tan cowboy hat and a red Western shirt with pearl snaps, the look fans have watched Alan Jackson wear on stage for years, walked down Broadway in Nashville holding hands with a woman people claimed was Denise, Alan’s wife of 46 years.
The video started circulating online over the weekend, a few months after Alan Jackson retired from touring with his final concert at Nissan Stadium. It was filmed on the same street as his own honky-tonk, AJ’s Good Time Bar at 421 Broadway. Fans quickly filled the comments to point out that the man in the hat was not Alan Jackson.
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The plainest answer came from one commenter who said they work for Alan, and who spoke for both people in the video.
“Haaaaa. I work for Alan. THAT is NOT HIM…or Denise! 😂🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️”
“This is sooooo NOT them!!” another fan wrote.
Another fan went straight to the height. “Alan is 6’5. This dude is 5’11 max 😂,” the fan wrote. According to alanjackson.com, he stands 6 feet 4 inches.
ERNEST joined in too. Since the man in the video was a “knockoff” version of Jackson, the country singer went through Alan’s famous songs and lyrics in the comments and gave each one a twist.
“Here for a bad time.” “Daddy let me walk.” “1 o’clock somewhere.” “Midnight in manhattan.” “Forget when.” And finally, “Badahoochi.”
Alan fans will hear “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” “Midnight in Montgomery,” “Remember When,” “Chattahoochee” and the “Daddy let me drive” line from “Drive (For Daddy Gene)” under the jokes.
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Fans had good reason to think a Broadway sighting was possible. AJ’s Good Time Bar opened in October 2016 and celebrated its 10th anniversary with a party on Monday, October 5. According to ajsgoodtimebar.com, Jackson once walked off a show at Ascend Amphitheater and turned up a few blocks away at the bar for a surprise set.
“It’s good to see everybody tonight, but to be honest, I’m about to pass out. I [already] sang a whole ‘nother concert,” he told the crowd, as reported by The Tennessean. Then he sang “Good Time” in the bar named for it.
The road has been behind him since June. More than 80,000 people saw his final concert at Nissan Stadium, and that night is set to be revisited on a new live album and an NBC-TV special.
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The look the man on Broadway borrowed has a history of its own. In a 2018 interview with GQ, Jackson said he started wearing a hat in public as a teenager, partly out of self-consciousness about the big scar on his forehead from running through a glass door when he was little.
He also had a simple explanation for why the hat works on him.
“Well, everybody doesn’t look good in a hat,” he said.
The man on Broadway may want to take note.
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