Country music superstar Alan Jackson released his first bluegrass album appropriately titled The Bluegrass Album – on September 24, 2013.Jackson wrote eight songs for the album, which also includes other originals and a couple of well-known standards of the genre. The Bluegrass Albumwas released on ACR (Alans Country Records)/EMI Records Nashville and is produced by Keith Stegall and Jacksons nephew, Adam Wright. Jackson has openly expressed his desire to record a bluegrass album for years. This spring, a group of some of the best players and singers in bluegrass came together, emerging in a matter of days with the completed acoustic album. He enlisted Scott Coney (acoustic guitar), Sammy Shelor (banjo), Adam Steffey (mandolin), Tim Crouch (fiddle), Tim Dishman (bass), Rob Ickes (dobro), and Ronnie Bowman and Don Rigsby (vocals). Originals that Jackson penned for the album include such titles as Blacktop, Blue Ridge Mountain Song and Mary. Covers on The Bluegrass Album include The Dillards There Is A Time, John Andersons Wild and Blue and a -time version of Bill Monroes seminal Blue Moon of Kentucky.