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“I got a phone call from Alan’s manager, saying he was going to do a recording of gospel songs for his mom,” says RCA Label Group/Nashville chairman Joe Galante. “He was just going to make a CD copy for her. I said I’d love to hear it.”

Jackson says: “It was something I wanted to do. My mom just wore me out, asking me to do some of the songs I heard in the Baptist church growing up, and my wife, Denise, asked me (to do some for her mother). I had all this pressure from the women in my life. But actually I loved these songs and was looking for an opportunity to do it. We just did a simple record, piano, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals.”

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