Cody Johnson Honors Alan Jackson With Farewell Concert Performance Of A Personal Favorite
on Jun 27, 2026 • Updated Jun 27, 2026
Some of the biggest names in country music have gathered for a very special concert dedicated to Alan Jackson on Saturday, June 27.
Among them was Cody Johnson.
The sold-out event, dubbed Last Call: One More for the Road – The Finale, marks the end of Jackson’s storied touring career.
There, Alan performed with a slew of collaborators, creating new memories while savoring “that honky tonk dream.”
Cody Johnson Revisits One Of His Personal Favorite Alan Jackson Tunes
On June 27, at Last Call, the final full concert by Alan Jackson, Cody Johnson performed “Job Description.”
Released in 1994 on his fifth studio album, Who I Am, “Job Description” was penned by Jackson.
Speaking on why he selected “Job Description,” CoJo said:
“His songs have been, so many times, have been the story of my life, and that’s why I chose the song that we’re about to sing. When I looked at the list of songs to choose from, this is the one that I remember being a kid and dreaming, wishing I could live these lyrics. Then I did. Sometimes it wasn’t always all it was cracked up to be.”
Noting that Jackson wrote this song “100% by himself,” he then started the song.
“Job Description” is largely autobiographical, detailing Jackson’s life on the road as a touring country artist.
He sings, “And I sure don’t like to leave you, couldn’t stand for you to think that I don’t care, so I wrote this job description just to tell you what I do when I’m not there.”
The chorus then goes:
“I sleep 80 miles an hour to the whining of a diesel down the interstate. Dreamin’ ’bout my little girls, the easy chair that sits beside the fireplace. Then we shut her down in another town, shower up and do just what we came to do, sing for the people, count the money and the miles back home to you.”
Watch Cody Johnson’s remarks on the song “Job Description,” and some of the chorus, here:
Hear the start of Cody Johnson’s performance, here:
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Listen to Alan Jackson’s 1994 autobiographical song “Job Description,” here:
Much like Alan Jackson did when he burst onto the country music scene in 1989, Cody Johnson entered the spotlight with his sights set on preserving the genre.
In the years since Cody’s emergence, his career has seen some similar parallels to that of Alan Jackson. Both Cody Johnson and Alan Jackson had career defining songs that found success beyond the confines of the country music genre, with “‘Til You Can’t” and “Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning),” respectively.
Carrying on the country music tradition of artists like George Strait and Travis Tritt, as well as Alan Jackson and others, Cody is building a legacy of his own while treading lightly down the path paved by those who came before him.
Back in 2023, CoJo told ABC News of a song by Jackson that resonated with him, recalling, “My wife and I got married in early December and by the time I blinked my eye, Christmas was there, and there we were, newlyweds with hardly any money, living in a one-bedroom apartment.”
He then said:
“We were just so happy back then. We didn’t have anything and somehow we had it all. I remember that very first Christmas of us being married and we were broke as a joke and somehow we were just like that old Alan Jackson song, just ‘Livin’ on Love.'”
Cody added, “There was something pure and happy about that.”
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