CMT Blog: Archive

Last week I blogged about Kenny Chesney's "She's Got It All" video, because back in the late '90s that was about the coolest thing I'd ever seen. But there's another vintage video I've been thinking about, because I was so impressed every time I saw it. Alan Jackson's honkytonkin' "Don't Rock the Jukebox" from 1991. It has everything: country instruments floating on the wall behind him! Girls with bad perms! A scene with George Jones! I'd always loved the song because it's hard to argue with how there ain't nothing like a steel guitar to drown a memory. But the video is so sweet because of the introduction Jackson gives. His story is that after playing a dance set at Geraldine's truck stop lounge somewhere in Virginia, he took a break and went over to the jukebox. And so on until he starts singing. And when he's playing guitar, he holds it way up high like Dwight Yoakam does. That was probably just the trend back then, but it looks good on Jackson.