Last Saturday night Sweetie and I dropped off SuperPizzaBoy at Nana’s and headed downtown to the BOK center to see Alan Jackson play some country music.

At least Sweetie wore jeans, I wore slacks. Neither one of us owns hats or boots nor a big fancy belt buckles. We were not worried though. We had been to some Country shows, Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. Nobody wore hats or boots to those shows except for the girls in short skirts. The shorter the skirt the taller the boot seemed the rule. Nobody on stage performing wore a hat. Not only that, both those girls could rock Metallica clear out of the house.

Anyway we got to the Arena and there were hats and boots and belt buckles everywhere, even on the stage not to mention the audience. Wassup? Man we were out of place.

And, the stage was pretty simple. Microphones, a drum set, steel guitar, and lots of guys playing guitars and violins. A few lights and some video gear. No runways, nor multilevel stages. The sound booth looked like the one we have at church with just a couple guys reading the paper and fiddling with the controls.

Strangely enough Alan Jackson hasn’t invested a whole lot in a choreographer. He basically stood in front of the microphone, played his guitar, and sang. His band pretty much stayed put also and played their instruments and sometimes harmonized with him. He didn’t run, strut, preen, juke, jive or anything like that. What kind of show is he putting on? Does he think that people came to listen to him sing songs?

He did a fine job. I’m not a country country kind of guy and I wasn’t sure that I liked this concert right afterwards but I’ve changed my mind. Jackson is a fine singer and he did that well. His band, the Strayhorns, have been with him a long time and it showed. They played well but Alan Jackson’s voice was the star of the show.

I give this show three stars out of four which is good.