Alan Jackson Plots Alabama Drive-In Concerts

– Alan Jackson Drive-In

The COVID-19 pandemic has the entertainment industry down, but not out, and Alan Jackson is putting on a pair of shows at drive-in theaters in Alabama next week. Both shows will feature Cory Farley Band as support.

The two shows will be at the Rock The South festival grounds in Cullman (June 5) and the Oak Hollow Farm grounds in Fairhope.

Tickets to both shows are on sale now, with GA for a vehicle with up to two passengers costing $99.99. Sponsors for the event include Pepsi and Cullman Alabama.

A portion of the proceeds for the event go toward food relief in the local communities.

A regular on the road, Jackson’s last reported show was Feb. 14 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. He sold 11,602 tickets for a $826,226 gross. He regularly posted grosses above $500,000 throughout 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jackson was featured on the cover of Pollstar in March, in which he discusses influences like Hank Williams Sr., who also lived through hard times. 

“Hank Sr. was a lot poorer, and had it rougher than we did,” Jackson said. “He had to be a man. You know, I’m a big fan of Hank Sr. He had a lot of great uptempo things, but he had songs about life. He mixed it up, and that’s what I try to do, too. Those gospel albums I did for my Mama, they sold millions. ‘Sissy’s Song,’ we’d never really had a death in our family, and people tell us it helped ’em through things in their life. It’s all different things in the show.”