{"id":765867,"date":"2026-06-28T01:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T01:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T01:32:13","slug":"country-icon-alan-jackson-details-grueling-15-year-health-battle-with-nerve-damage-disease-ahead-of-final-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765867\/","title":{"rendered":"Country icon Alan Jackson details grueling 15-year health battle with nerve damage disease ahead of final concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country icon Alan Jackson is gearing up for his retirement concert, \u201cLast Call: One More for the Road \u2013 The Finale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The finale concert, which will be held Saturday night at Nissan Stadium, will take Jackson, 67, back to his Nashville roots as the city that launched his career. <\/p>\n<p>Joining him onstage will be a star-studded lineup including Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, Little Big Town, Thomas Rhett, Jake Owen, Jon Pardi, and Lee Ann Womack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/alan-jackson-the-last-show-concert-special-coming-to-nbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">per NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show will also be filmed for an NBC primetime special titled, \u201cAlan Jackson: The Last Show,\u201d and will hit Peacock for streaming the following day.  <\/p>\n<p>Alan Jackson (pictured here at the 2024 Nashville Songwriter Awards) is preparing for his retirement concert titled \u201cLast Call: One More for the Road \u2013 The Finale\u201d on Saturday night.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The singer will be joined by Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, and more, as seen above in the concert flyer.  Alan Jackson\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Jackson and NBC announced his official retirement performance earlier this month \u2014 years after the country crooner revealed he had been diagnosed with Charcot\u2013Marie\u2013Tooth disease in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is defined as a \u201cgroup of inherited conditions that cause nerve damage,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/charcot-marie-tooth-disease\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20350517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the Mayo Clinic<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The disease is known to cause \u201csmaller, weaker muscles. It also may cause trouble walking, and loss of feeling in the legs and feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was originally diagnosed in 2011, but kept his diagnosis hidden for a decade before he publicly told his story. <\/p>\n<p>Jackson (seen here performing at the Opry 100: A Live Celebration in March 2025) was diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neurological disease that\u2019s inherited through genetics, in 2011.  Getty Images for the Grand Ole Opry<\/p>\n<p>The singer (pictured above performing at Honda Center in April 2016) kept his diagnosis a secret for a decade before coming forward with his diagnosis in 2021. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been affecting me for years,\u201d he said in his 2021 appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/country-star-alan-jackson-announces-cmt-diagnosis-today-t232178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the \u201cToday Show.\u201d<\/a> \u201cAnd it\u2019s getting more and more obvious. I know I\u2019m not going to be able to tour like I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to share that he inherited the neurological disease from his father, who died in 2000 of a ruptured aorta. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m stumbling around on stage. And now I\u2019m having a little trouble balancing, even in front of the microphone,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n<p>While he continued performing for years despite the difficulty, the country star admitted at the time that his balance issues were causing him problems onstage.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel comfortable,\u201d he said of performing while managing his condition. \u201cIt\u2019s going to disable me eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know I\u2019m stumbling around on stage. And now I\u2019m having a little trouble balancing, even in front of the microphone,\u201d Jackson (pictured here at the 2025 Academy of Country Music Awards) said.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Jackson (pictured above performing at the 2021 ACM Awards) has won two Grammy Awards, 16 CMA awards and 17 ACM awards throughout his legendary career.  Getty Images for ACM<\/p>\n<p>Jackson, a Georgia native, has earned 35 Number 1 hits and 50 Top 10 singles throughout his prolific career. He sold more than 75 million records worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time Grammy award winner, Jackson also holds 16 CMA Awards, 17 ACM Awards.<\/p>\n<p>He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country icon Alan Jackson is gearing up for his retirement concert, \u201cLast Call: One More for the Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,20164,362,4270,26948,75,341,6790,1705],"class_list":["post-765867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-illnesses","tag-celebrity-news","tag-concert","tag-diseases","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}