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Alan Jackson at Watertown Fairgrounds Arena — July 16, 2010

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One of the last great neotraditionalists, Alan Jackson brought his honky-tonk to the Watertown Fairgrounds Arena in 2010 — a rare major-name country stop in the North Country. By then the Georgia native had stacked up a generation of hits built on fiddle, steel, and a plainspoken Southern drawl: “Chattahoochee,” “Drive (For Daddy Gene),” “Remember When,” and the post-9/11 ballad “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).” For Watertown, a star of Jackson’s wattage at the county fairgrounds was a marquee summer night.

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