Alan Jackson is set to drop his latest album, Where Have You Gone, on May 14th, and there's one song in particular on that project that stands out for him.
"I wrote [it when] my mama died three or four years ago, four years ago maybe. I don't remember now," he shares in a statement from his label. "But I wrote it for her funeral, that's 'Where Her Heart Has Always Been.' And I really love that track. It's just really – I tried to write it in a way that I know she would appreciate it.
"And then after we had cut it and we were just about to finalize the record, my sister sent a recording of mama reading from the Bible for a Christmas story or something from a few years ago that I hadn't heard, or I don't remember if I had ever heard it," he continues. "And I thought that would be cool to put that on there.
"So, we tried to pick a little piece of that that didn't sound so Christmasy and put on there on the front end and that made it really, really sweet."
