“A Long, Sweet Ride”: Alan Jackson Plays the Last Show of His Final Tour Ever

Alan Jackson hung up his traveling boots for good on Saturday night.

The beloved Country Music Hall of Famer told his capacity crowd at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum that he was “kinda winding down” and the night was “my last road show.”

The crowd gave Jackson a nearly minute-long standing ovation on the final night of his Last Call One More for the Road Tour. The adoration made Jackson emotional.

“Y’all are gonna make me tear up up here.”

However, he told fans he planned to do a huge finale show in Nashville next summer.

“We just felt like we had to end it all where it all started, and that’s in Nashville, Tennessee – Music City – where country music lives,” Jackson said. “So, I gotta do the last one there. But this is the last one out on the road for me.”

An audience member shouted their love for Jackson, triggering another wave of applause.

The “Chattahoochee” singer called his country music career “a long, sweet ride.”

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“It started 40 years ago this September,” Jackson recalled. “My wife and I drove to Nashville with an ol’ U-Haul trailer and chased this dream. It’s been a crazy ride. I’ve really lived the American dream, for sure. So blessed, and I thank you all for supporting the music, coming to these shows. It’s amazing how timing and all that stuff works in life.”

Jackson explained his icon-making career began with “just one three-minute song that came out in 1989.”

The Georgia singer’s first single was “Blue Blooded Woman.” The Academy of Country Music recently presented Jackson with its Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his 17 competitive trophies and five special awards, starting with 1991’s Top New Male Vocalist. Jackson revealed he had been diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2011. CMT is a degenerative nerve condition that impacts the nerves connecting the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body, causing muscle weakness and atrophy, especially in the extremities.

“It’s been affecting me for years, and it’s getting more and more obvious,” Jackson told “TODAY” show’s Jenna Bush Hager in 2021. “And I know I’m stumbling around on stage, and now I’m having a little trouble balancing even in front of the microphone, and so I just feel very uncomfortable, and I just want people to know that’s why I look like I do.”

However, Jackson didn’t let CMT slow him down Saturday night. He performed more than 20 songs for the more than 13,000 fans in attendance.

Alan Jackson’s May 17, 2025, Setlist at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum

The (*) indicates titles he added in the moment, but his band – The Strayhorns- never missed a beat.

Gone Country
I Don’t Even Know Your Name
Livin’ on Love
Summertime Blues
The Blues Man
Who’s Cheatin’ Who
(acoustic set)
Here in the Real World
Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow
Wanted*
I’d Love You All Over Again (dedicated to Denise, in the audience)*
The Older I Get
(end acoustic set)
Little Bitty
Country Boy
Good Time
Drive (for Daddy Gene)
Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)
Don’t Rock the Jukebox
Remember When
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
(portion of) What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) (Jerry Lee Lewis)*
Chattahoochee
Where I Come From

Encore:
Mercury Blues (extended, with band solos)

Photo by Ty Helbach/Fiserv Forum