Alan Jackson Dances With His Wife Denise During Two Step Inn Festival Performance

Alan Jackson recently shared a sweet moment with his wife Denise during his performance in Texas.

On Saturday, April 5, the Country Music Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, 66, performed a headlining show at the Two Step Inn. During his performance of “Remember When,” he invited his wife Denise to the stage to dance with him. Denise’s birthday was on April 6 and the couple has been married for more than 45 years.

The two shared a sweet slow dance and a kiss while Jackson’s band continued to play an instrumental version of the song, before Jackson returned to the microphone to continue singing the song.

“Remember When,” which was a two-week Billboard Country Airplay chart No. 1 for Jackson in 2004, revisits the triumphs and challenges of the couple’s love story.

They were high school sweethearts in Newnan, Georgia. They wed in 1979 and Denise played a key role in helping Jackson get discovered as an artist. Denise began working as a flight attendant. At one point she saw Glen Campbell in the Atlanta airport and approached Campbell to tell him her husband was an aspiring singer-songwriter. According to Denise Jackson’s 2007 book It’s All About Him, Campbell gave her the business card for music executive Marty Gamblin, who ran Campbell’s music publishing company at the time. According to the book, Gamblin became an early supporter in Jackson’s career.

The couple has three daughters: Mattie Denise (born in 1990, the same year Jackson released his debut album Here in the Real World), Alexandra Jane (1993) and Dani Grace (1997).

Other artists who performed at the Two Step Inn festival on April 5-6 included Miranda Lambert, Sturgill Simpson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Treaty Oak Revival, Flatland Calvalry and more.

Jackson is also on his Last Call: One More for the Road Tour, which launched in April and is set to conclude in May. Jackson hasn’t called the trek a farewell tour, though an announcement for the tour last year noted the tour will mark “the last time he’ll ever perform his more-than-30 years of hits in that city and surrounding areas.”