Alan Jackson said he plans for 'more music to come' amid his ongoing battle with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
. Alan has battled the condition — a hereditary disorder that affects the nervous system, causing progressive loss of muscle tissue and loss of sensation in the arms and legs — for over a decade but didn’t go public with the news until September 2021.interview at the time. “It’s genetic that I inherited from my daddy. … There’s no cure for it, but it’s been affecting me for years. And it’s getting more and more obvious.
While CMT doesn’t shorten life expectancy, it can make movement extremely difficult — especially for a person used to performing on stage night after night.“I’ve been reluctant to talk about this publicly and to my fans,” the “Chattahoochee” singer explained when revealing his battle with the disorder, which also affected his grandmother and sister. “It’s called CMT, ironically enough, because CMT was a big part of my career.
After revealing his diagnosis, the “Little Bitty” crooner announced that he planned to continue touring, but . “I never wanted to do the big retirement tour, like people do, then take a year off and then come back,” he told
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