Jackson headlines Sill show

By Monica Wood, Fort Sill FMWRJune 7, 2012

Alan Jackson
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FORT SILL, Okla.-- Country superstar Alan Jackson brings his tour to Polo Field as part of the 2012 Army Concert Tour June 30. The concert is presented by Army Entertainment and Fort Sill Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.

Special guests are Easton Corbin and Gloriana. The concert is open to the public and tickets are available at Adventure Travel locations.

Tickets can also be purchased online at www.sillmwr.com, or by calling 800-999-2987. Advanced ticket price is $30 or $35 at the gate. Children age 6 and under are free. The show will end with a fireworks display.

Jackson's new single, "So You Don't Have To Love Me Anymore," is playing on the radio now and the video for the song is airing on Country Music Television and Great American Country. Fans can also view the video at http://vevo.ly/yrfkrc. The single is from the forthcoming debut album from the joint venture between Alan's Country Records and EMI Records Nashville. It will be released this month.

Gloriana

The concert opens with the up and coming trio Gloriana. The trio is relatively new and consists of brothers Tom and Mike Gossin and Rachel Reinert. They released their debut album in 2009 and went on to become the best-selling debut country act of 2009. Gloriana debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and No. 3 on the Top 200 chart. The hit single from that album, "Wild At Heart," became a gold-certified hit. The band went on to win the fan-voted-on American Music Award for Breakthrough Artist and the "Nationwide On Your Side" honor at the CMT awards.

In 2010, Gloriana won the Academy of Country Music's Award for Top New Vocal Group and were nominated for a Teen Choice Award for "Choice Country Group."

The group's second album, "A Thousand Miles Left Behind," is due for release in July. The first single off the album "Kissed You Good Night," is climbing the country charts, while its accompanying video (starring Megan Park and Tyler Hilton) had its premier on ABC Family in January.

Easton Corbin

Easton Corbin moved to Nashville in 2006 to try his hand at becoming a professional country singer. He caught the attention of booking agent James Yelich and Universal Music Group Nashville's senior director of A&R, Joe Fisher, who signed him to the group's Mercury Nashville imprint in 2009. He released his debut single "A Little More Country Than That," in July, 2009 and followed it with a four-song EP under the same title a month later. Both releases led up to the arrival of his full-length debut, Easton Corbin in 2010.

Alan Jackson

Jackson is one of the most successful and respected singer-songwriters in music. He is in the elite company of Paul McCartney and John Lennon among songwriters who've written more than 20 songs that they've recorded and taken to the top of the charts. Jackson is one of the 10 best-selling artists since the inception of SoundScan, ranking alongside the likes of Eminem and Metallica. Jackson has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide, topped the country singles charts 35 times, and scored more than 50 Top-10 hits. He has written or co-written 24 of his 35 No. 1 singles. Jackson is a 17-time American Country Music Award winner, a 16-time Country Music Association Award recipient, and a two-time Grammy-winning artist whose songwriting has earned him the prestigious ASCAP Founders Award and an induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as a 2011 songwriter and artist inductee.