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‘Manifestation’ seems to have been the buzzword of 2024, with various outlets, podcasts and self-help books championing our ability to will our wildest fantasies into being.
Regardless of whether you believe in manifestation or not, there are some things that simply can't be wished into reality - such as, perhaps, Alan Jackson being Zach Top's father.
You'd have thought this wasn't something that was in question, given the fact that, well, it's simply not true, but the musical similarities between Top and Jackson - along with his signature ‘90s moustache - have left some fans conjuring up a blood relation.
The conspiracy really took off when 93.7 JR Country radio host, Docc Andrews, conducted some sleuthing to find that Alan Jackson was playing a show in Washington - Zach Top's hometown - around the time when Zach Top would have been conceived.
Andrews outlined his tongue-in-cheek theory, “You guys, Zach Top was born September 6th, 1997, in Sunnyside, Washington, USA. If you go back nine months from his birth date to the Winter of 1996. In November of 1996, Alan Jackson played at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington! Have you seen Zach Top’s face? His moustache? His sound? Zach Top is Alan Jackson’s son. Prove me wrong”.
Hilariously, shortly after this TikTok clip went viral, someone went into Zach Top's Wikipedia biography and altered it to read, “Zach Top was born on September 26, 1997, and grew up on his father Alan Jackson's ranch in Sunnyside, Washington”. The Wikipedia page has since been updated, with this false information removed.
It's not the first time a mock parenthood has been devised in the country music world, with John Daly and ERNEST sharing a long-running joke that they might be father and son.
Even though they're not related, Alan Jackson's influence on Zach Top is plain to see, with Top tipping his Stetson to Jackson's iconic 1992 hit on ‘Sounds Like the Radio’, “Well, the day I was born the doc couldn't believe / I came out cryin' Chattahoochee”.
Zach Top is yet to address this new Alan Jackson conspiracy, and although he sarcastically claims ‘I Never Lie’ on his 2024 anthem, we wouldn't be surprised if the country prodigy plays along with the joke when he's inevitably asked about it in an interview.
Zach Top is currently gearing up to embark on his 2025 Cold Beer & Country Music headline tour, with dates lined up across Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and more.
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