Alan Jackson ends road career with final Nashville farewell concert

Alan Jackson closed his road career at Nissan Stadium in Nashville on Saturday night, ending a touring run that helped define country music across the 1990s and 2000s. The 67-year-old's farewell, billed as Last Call: One More for the Road - The Finale, came after years of visible struggle with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, the hereditary nerve condition that affected his balance and stage movement.

Jackson first went public with the diagnosis on Sept. 28, 2021, saying he had learned a decade earlier that he had the disease. He said CMT was not deadly, that there was no cure and that he inherited it from his father. Jackson also said the condition had run through his family, affecting his father, grandmother and oldest sister, and that it could cause weakness and mobility problems in the feet, legs, hands and arms.

By May 2025, Jackson was telling fans he was winding down touring because of his health and wanted one final Nashville show where it all started. He said the concert would be his last road performance, and he has described himself as "living the American dream." A portion of ticket sales was directed to the CMT Research Foundation, tying the sendoff directly to the disease that had shaped his final years onstage.

The concert drew some of country music's biggest names. George Strait, Carrie Underwood, Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson and Taylor Swift were among the artists tied to tributes for the night, turning Jackson's final bow into a large-scale celebration of his career. Some fans booed during Swift's tribute, a sign of how intensely the crowd was reacting to every part of the farewell.

The Associated Press described the show as Jackson's final performance and called it a triumphant finale. That framing matched the arc of his career and the harder reality behind it: a singer whose catalog included Chattahoochee, Remember When and Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), and whose last years on the road were marked as much by endurance as by hitmaking. For fans in Nashville, the goodbye carried the weight of both.