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Zach Top Just Dropped a Pic With Alan Jackson and It’s Giving Father-Son Vibes

Side-by-side photo of Zach Top and Alan Jackson both wearing cowboy hats and sporting mustaches, sparking playful father-son comparisons online.
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  • Riley is a Senior Country Music Journalist for Country Thang Daily, known for her engaging storytelling and insightful coverage of the genre.
  • Before joining Country Thang Daily, Riley developed her expertise at Billboard and People magazine, focusing on feature stories and music reviews.
  • Riley has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Belmont University, with a minor in Cultural Studies.

Zach Top just posted a photo with Alan Jackson, and the internet isn’t asking questions anymore—they’re calling it blood.

In what feels like country music’s most persistent and hilarious rumor, the side-by-side snap of the two artists backstage has fans demanding a DNA test once again. It’s not just the mustache, the hair, or the boots. It’s the vibe. The energy. The fact that if someone told you Alan Jackson had a 27-year-old son following in his two-steppin’ footsteps, you’d barely flinch.

The photo, posted on April 23 on Zach’s Instagram, was taken during Alan’s Last Call: One More for the Road farewell tour. Top is currently serving as the opening act for multiple dates, including this weekend’s stop in Tampa.

“Excited to be back out on the road this weekend with the man Alan Jackson!” Top wrote in the caption.

Fans weren’t interested in the tour schedule. They were locked in on the facial symmetry.

“That’s a long way to say ‘my father,'” one user wrote.
“Early Father’s Day pic.”
“Not beating the father-son allegations.”
“Family photo vibes.”

At this point, it’s not even a joke—it’s a meme with roots. The theory started getting real legs when Canadian radio host Docc Andrews pointed out that Jackson played a show in Tacoma, Washington, in November 1996—roughly nine months before Top was born just a few hours away in Sunnyside.

“Have you seen Zach Top’s face? His moustache? His sound?” Andrews said. “Zach Top is Alan Jackson’s son. Prove me wrong.”

Rather than shoot it down, Zach Top has leaned into the conspiracy with the kind of humor only someone supremely comfortable with his trajectory could pull off.

“Oh, it’s more than a rumor,” he joked on Audacy’s Rob and Holly last year. “Hell, I’ve been trying to figure out what the answer is. My parents won’t answer me straight. Nobody will.”

That kind of self-awareness is part of why he’s connecting. The other part? He’s just that good. With a throwback sound that echoes the best of ’90s country without feeling like cosplay, Top’s breakout album Cold Beer & Country Music turned heads for all the right reasons. And after just winning ACM New Male Artist of the Year, he’s not just carrying the torch—he’s walking it downstage to a sold-out crowd that still craves George, Alan, and a damn good fiddle solo.

So yeah, the photo’s funny. But it’s also kind of poetic.

Alan Jackson is winding down a Hall of Fame career. Zach Top is just kicking off his. And somewhere between the mustaches and the melodies, country music fans found something that felt like a passing of the torch wrapped in a paternity test joke.

Blood or not, this one’s going in the family album.

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