The country star, 53, is also a licensed pilot and family man. Of his marriage to high school sweetheart, Denise, Jackson says: “We’ve been through a lot together. As you get older, what I appreciate is that history.”

Country superstar Alan Jackson will kick off the Fourth of July celebration early for members of the military and their families at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in the nation’s heartland this weekend.

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Alan Jackson’s Thirty Miles West has debuted at the top of Billboard’s Top Country Albums sales chart, making it his 13th album to debut in the #1 spot on release week.