On Saturday, June 27th, Alan Jackson will be performing at Nissan Stadium in Nashville in what is billed as his final concert. First announced in October of 2025, when tickets for “Last Call: One More for the Road – The Finale” went on sale, they were in such high demand that the website crashed, resale prices soared, and a stadium of 55,000 seats sold out promptly.
People weren’t just paying to see Alan Jackson. A host of arena-level artists had also signed up to perform on the evening, including Luke Combs, Riley Green, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Jon Pardi, Lee Ann Womack, Eric Church, Keith Urban, and Luke Bryan, along with the promise of more performers to be announced in the future.
Though all of these other performers were big names, fans wondered if the “more to be announced” would include performers who have a more personal connection to Alan Jackson. Now we have the answer.
Though none of them like to broadcast it too loudly because they want to stand on their own two feet, Alan Jackson has numerous relatives in the country music business. This includes Alan Jackson’s nephews Adam Wright and Big City Brian Wright, along with Big City Brian Wright’s daughter, Carlisle Wright. Last week, they were announced as the latest editions to Alan Jackson’s finale concert, assuring that it will be a family affair.
“He’s come a long way from he and my aunt Denise’s baby-sitting duties back in Newnan, Georgia, when they were fresh out of high school,” Big City Brian Wright tells Saving Country Music. “By babysitting, I mean he dragged me and Adam to his bass player’s basement to watch him and his band rehearse ‘Country Boy Can Survive’ and drink Budweiser. That’s literally my first experience with live music at 8 years old. Maybe that’s why I like to drink beer and play country music.”
Though Big City Brian Wright spends most of his time as an airline pilot, he’s no slouch when it comes to writing, singing, and performing country music himself. Saving Country Music reviewed his 2025 album Sky Trucker that took the country trucker concept, and superimposed it on his life as a pilot.
“It was really incredible watching a normal guy with a naturally good, untrained voice, a few good songs and a dream actually make it happen,” Brian Wright says of Uncle Alan, who they actually call “Uncle Hat,”—a nickname given to Alan by Wright’s son. “It’s kinda weird. My uncle is my uncle, but he’s really also one of my heroes in country music. He’s proved that traditional country music will always have fans and that an artist can have a lifelong career by (as George Jones said) ‘Keeping it Country.’”
“Keeping it country” is exactly what 3rd generation performer Carlisle Wright is doing. She’s had not one, but two singles appear on the Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist: “Honkytonk Talkin’” and her latest, the super well-written “Half My Heroes.”
“I’m honored to be carrying on the classic country legacy and excited to bring a new generation of listeners to the sound that never should’ve been forgotten,” Carlisle says.
Meanwhile, singer and songwriter Adam Wright has been featured with his famous uncle numerous times before. Adam has written and co-written numerous songs for Alan, including “So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore,” which was nominated for Best Country Song at the 2012 Grammy Awards. “All The Trouble” written for Lee Ann Womack was nominated for the Grammy’s Best American Roots Song in 2019. Adam has also written songs for Garth Brooks, Robert Earl Keen, and Brandy Clark.
Though some may claim it’s nepotism that got them on this massive bill, this is Alan Jackson’s final show, and it wouldn’t feel Wright if his family wasn’t there to celebrate it with him, and participate. After all, Adam and Brian have been helping to pass the torch, and Carlisle just might be the future of traditional country music.
In September of 2021, Alan Jackson revealed that he’s been suffering from a degenerative nerve condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, nicknamed CMT. The good news is that the disease is not life threatening, nor does it affect longevity. But CMT does significantly affect coordination, which has restricted Alan Jackson’s ability to perform. This is the primary reason he’s decided to step away from performing publicly.
You never know when a performer says they’re playing their final show if it really means it’s final. We’ve been faked out many times before. But with Jackson and his medical condition, you tend to believe it. He might still make public appearances and even release songs and albums in the future. But the rowdy road dog days of Alan Jackson feel well behind him.
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