Alan Jackson (Photograph: David McClister)

NASHVILLE (CelebrityAccess) — Singer-songwriter and Nation Corridor of Famer, Alan Jackson was the recipient of the Poets Award as a part of the seventeenth ACM Honors celebration in Nashville on Wednesday night time.

“I’ve all the time put songwriting on the prime of my record in relation to making music,” Jackson instructed the assmebled crowd after receiving the award, including that he thought-about it a “excessive honor.”

“I spotted a very long time in the past life offers you a whole lot of components for songwriting,” the Nation Music Corridor of Fame member instructed the standing-room-only viewers on the historic Ryman Auditorium. “It sometimes makes the perfect songs. And I’ve been lucky to drag a whole lot of stuff out of my life and switch it into music through the years,” he added. “My greatest delight as an artist is to jot down a track, have folks get pleasure from it and be touched by it or moved by it…[to] assist them by means of a tough time or [to] get pleasure from time.”

“I simply recognize the chance to share my music,” he concluded.

Eric Church, who introduced Jackson with the award on Wednesday, known as the nation icon an “establishment” and quoted poet Robert Frost. “He mentioned, ‘Poetry is when emotion finds its thought…after which that thought finds its phrases.’” Church mentioned earlier than including, “Alan Jackson has all the time discovered my phrases.”

Church went on to carry out a rendition of Jackson’s hit “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow” for the assembled crowd.