“My Parents Won't Answer Me Straight...”: Zach Top Jokes That Alan Jackson Might Be His Father After All

Zach Top is not only cementing his position as the most exciting neo-traditional voice to emerge in recent years, but the ‘I Never Lie’ hitmaker is also quickly establishing himself as one of the artists with the best senses of humour in today's country scene.

You might have seen the (hilarious) conspiracy that started circulating in January that, due to certain facial and musical resemblances, Zach Top was secretly the son of Alan Jackson. The amusing, tongue-in-cheek theory was given an extra dimension when 93.7 JR Country radio host, Docc Andrews, discovered through some sleuthing that Jackson was performing in Top's home-state, Washington, around the time the up-and-coming artist would have been conceived.

In a new interview with the Rob and Holly! Show, when asked about the Alan Jackson fatherhood rumours, Zach Top quips, “Oh, it's more than a rumour. Hell, I've been trying to figure out what the answer is. My parents won't answer me straight...Nobody will”.

The fast-emerging crooner goes on to playfully underline that he's planning on asking the ‘Chattahoochee’ icon about this in person when he opens for Alan Jackson in Texas next week, as part of his 2025 Last Call Tour, “I think the only way I'm gonna get a straight answer is in Forth Worth when I finally meet him, when we do that first show here in a few weeks. I'm just gonna go up and say, ’Hi Daddy, I've missed you’, and we'll see how he reacts, and I'll know whether it's true or not...!”

Holly then quips that it won't be the first time someone has called Alan Jackson ‘Daddy’, prompting a bout of laughter from Rob and Zach Top, before Top stresses that - of course - they're only messing around, “Sorry Alan, if this is disrespectful and you see this...I love you and I respect you, and we're just having fun”.

We hopefully shouldn't have to, but just in case, it's worth underlining that Zach Top is not actually Alan Jackson's son - but it's nonetheless good fun to see Top playing along.

The ‘Sounds Like the Radio’ singer-songwriter, who is gearing up for another momentous year of new music and live shows, then wonders aloud if Alan Jackson has seen any of the speculation about Zach Top being a long-lost son of his, “He surely has to be aware of it. I don't imagine he scrolls Instagram or TikTok very much, but surely somebody in his camp has like made him aware that this is a thing”.

Zach Top teases he might join forces with Alan Jackson during their Fort Worth show for an on-stage joke regarding their fictitious relation, “So I hope we can do something funny on his tour, where we kind of acknowledge it...I thought, just like if we're on stage on something, you know, if he ends up having me up for a song or something like that - because, you know, that's a common thing to do on the tour or whatever - if he has me up and just as we end he's like, ‘That's my boy!”

The jokes continue, with Holly imagining Zach Top asking Alan Jackson to make up for lost time and swaddle him, before Top shouts, “Swaddle me! Swaddle me, Alan!”

Although not father and son, the sonic similarities between Alan Jackson and Zach Top are a testament to the way in which the latter is reintroducing the ‘90's country sound into the contemporary landscape through his charming, addictive anthems.

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