Alan Jackson - "If Love Was a River"

Album: What I Do
Utgitt: 2004
Låtskrivere: Adam Wright / Shannon Wright
Label: Arista Nashville

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Personnel
Monty Allen – background vocals
Eddie Bayers – drums
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
Mark Fain – bass guitar
Robbie Flint – steel guitar
Paul Franklin – steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Dave Gaylord – fiddle
Lloyd Green – steel guitar
Danny Groah – electric guitar
Alan Jackson – acoustic guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
Kirk "Jelly Roll" Johnson – harmonica
Dave Kelley – mandolin
Patty Loveless – background vocals on "Monday Morning Church"
Brent Mason – electric guitar, six-string bass guitar
Monty Parkey – piano
Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
Matt Rollings – piano
Bruce Rutherford – drums
Tom Rutledge – acoustic guitar
John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
Tony Stephens – acoustic guitar
Richard Sterban – background vocals on "Burnin' the Honky Tonks Down"
Bruce Watkins – acoustic guitar, banjo
Roger Wills – bass guitar
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Adam Wright – background vocals on "If Love Was a River"
Shannon Wright – background vocals on "If Love Was a River"

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What I Do is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on September 7, 2004, and produced four singles for Jackson on the Hot Country Songs charts: "Too Much of a Good Thing" and "Monday Morning Church" both reached #5, while "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues" and "USA Today" both reached #18. What I Do, however, was the first album of his career not to produce any #1 hits.

The Wrights, a duo composed of Adam and Shannon Wright (the former of whom is Jackson's nephew) are featured as background vocalists on "If Love Was a River", which they also co-wrote. Adam Wright also wrote the track "Strong Enough".
Giving the album all four stars, People magazine said on the album that Jackson "continues to sound more and more like Merle Haggard, which is tantamount to approaching perfection."

Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American country singer and songwriter. He is known for honoring a “traditional country” musical style, and for penning many of his own songs. Jackson has recorded 16 studio albums, three greatest hits albums, two Christmas albums, and two gospel albums.

Jackson has sold over 80 million records, with 66 titles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Of the 66 titles, and six featured singles, 38 have reached the top five and 35 have claimed the number one spot. Out of 15 titles to reach the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, nine have been certified multi-platinum. He is the recipient of two Grammy Awards, 16 CMA Awards, 17 ACM Awards and nominee of multiple other awards. He is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2001. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017 by Loretta Lynn and into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.
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Early life
Jackson was born to Joseph Eugene "Daddy Gene" Jackson (1927–2000) and Ruth Musick "Mama Ruth" Jackson (1930–2017) in Newnan, Georgia, and has four older siblings. He, his father, mother, and sisters lived in a small home built around his grandfather's old toolshed. The family is primarily of English descent. At one point, his bed was in the hallway for lack of room. His mother lived in the home until she died on January 7, 2017. Jackson sang in church as a child. His first job, at 12, was in a shoe store. He wrote his first song in 1983.

As a youth, Jackson listened primarily to gospel music, but otherwise he was not a major music fan until a friend introduced him to the music of Gene Watson, John Anderson, and Hank Williams Jr. Jackson attended the local Elm Street Elementary and Newnan High School, and started a band after graduation. When he was 27, Jackson and his wife of six years, Denise, moved from Newnan to Nashville, where he hoped to pursue music full-time.
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Lyrics:
If love was a river
And I was a drowning man
Would you get in the water
Would you lend me a hand
If love was a river
Would you sit on the land
If love was a mountain
High above this town
Would you climb to the top
Would you never look down
If love was a mountain
Would you go around
Love may only knock so many times upon your door
And heaven only knows if it will come back anymore
If love was a firefly
Sitting in your hand
Would you laugh when it twinkled
Let it go again
If love was a firefly
Would you understand
If love was a party
With everyone you know
Would you dance if I asked you
Would you smile and say no
If love was a party
Would you even go
Love may only knock so many times upon your door
And heaven only knows if it will come back anymore
If love was a fast train on a one-way track
Would you turn in your ticket
Would you never look back
If love was a fast train
Would you even pack?

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