Country Pop Bites: Alan Jackson – June 7

Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 1991 Alan Jackson joined the Grand Ole Opry?

It's true!

Check out this Alan Jackson video!

Here are 5 interesting facts about Alan Jackson.

• He like to sip Jack Daniels while he writes.
• he first starting to wear a cowboy hat so no one saw a scar he got as a kid growing up in Newnan, Ga.
• He writes many of his own songs, and admits he prefers the sad ones.
• In 1986, he appeared on TNN’s ‘You Can Be a Star,’ not as a contestant, but as a singer in the audience that got to take the show to commercial.
• He can wiggle his ears.