Jackson Dean is moving full-speed ahead with his career. The singer-songwriter released his debut Greenbroke album in 2022. In the years since then, Dean has worked hard, perhaps harder than anyone else, to make his dreams come to fruition.
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"I can't tell you the last time I was in one place for more than 72 hours," Dean says. "I couldn't tell you. So, most definitely I'm still running and gunning and going everywhere that I possibly can. I don't ever want that to stop. And I think that is the case for me because of actually my dad."
Dean reveals that his father could have retired a while ago, but chooses to continue to work, mostly for his health.
"He's been scared to death to retire for a long time now," Dean shares. "We've seen too many times guys that retire, and then a year and a half, two years later you see them again, and they're walking with a cane. And then another year later they have a walker, and then a year after that they're dead. I understand that as a human, you stop moving, you die. You gotta keep moving ... You can sleep when you're dead."
"Don't Come Lookin'"
Jackson was a hitmaker from the beginning, with the release of his debut single, "Don't Come Lookin'." The song earned him critical acclaim, legions of fans, and a new fan in Kelly Clarkson. Clarkson covered the song as part of her Kellyoke segment on her own The Kelly Clarkson Show.
"They didn't tell anybody. I had no idea," Dean tells Wide Open Country. "I was on a big travel day, as usual, and I had a layover somewhere and I was headed back to Nashville and I was getting in at like 7. Before I take off [my manager] texts me and he goes 'Oh, Kelly Clarkson played ['Don't Come Lookin']. And I was like, what? And then no service...We land... sit down, pour a drink, and we go 'oh sh*t!' We pull [the video] up and my God, they killed it."
"Don't Come Lookin'," inspired by his mother, was also featured in Yellowstone.
