Everything I Love

Alan Jackson was in the midst of a long winning streak when he cut Everything I Love, and it shows in the way the album confidently leaps from one infectious neo-trad honky-tonker to another. He brings a Cajun flavour to Tom T. Hall's "Little Bitty", tells a Randy Newman-esque morning-after tale on the swing-tinged "Must've Had a Ball" and gives a cathartic kiss-off on the swaggering groove of "It's Time You Learned About Good-Bye".