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<p><strong>"Don't Rock the Jukebox"</strong>&nbsp;is a song by American&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country music</a>&nbsp;artist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jackson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alan Jackson</a>. It was released on April 29, 1991, as the lead single from the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Rock_the_Jukebox" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">album of the same name</a>. It was his second consecutive Number One single on the U.S.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Country_Singles_%26_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hot Country Singles &amp; Tracks</a>&nbsp;charts. Jackson wrote the song with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Murrah" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roger Murrah</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Stegall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Keith Stegall</a>.</p><p>The song also received an ASCAP award for Country Song of the Year in 1992.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Rock_the_Jukebox_(song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a>&nbsp;That same year, the song was covered by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_and_the_Chipmunks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alvin and the Chipmunks</a>, featuring commentary by Alan Jackson himself for their 1992 album&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunks_in_Low_Places" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Chipmunks in Low Places</em></a>.</p><p>Background and writing<span style="color: var(--color-subtle,#54595d);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Rock_the_Jukebox_(song)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">edit</a><span style="color: var(--color-subtle,#54595d);">]</span></p><p>The song is sung from the perspective of a heartbroken bar patron who wishes to hear&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country music</a>&nbsp;to ease his heartbreak. As such, he tells the other patrons in the bar, "don't rock the jukebox" (i.e. play country instead of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a>).</p><p>Jackson wrote about the inspiration at the beginning of the video:&nbsp;<em>"I wanna tell you a little story about an incident that happened on the road a couple years ago when me and my band, The Strayhorns, were playing this little truck stop lounge up in&nbsp;</em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doswell,_Virginia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Doswell, Virginia</em></a><em>, a place called Geraldine's. We'd been there for four or five nights, you know, playing those dance sets. It'd been a long night, I took a break and walked over to the Jukebox. Roger, my bass player, was already over there reading the records, you know. I leaned up on the corner of it and one of the legs was broken off, jukebox kind of wobbling around, you know. And Roger looked up at me and said...".</em></p><p>Critical reception<span style="color: var(--color-subtle,#54595d);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Don%27t_Rock_the_Jukebox_(song)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">edit</a><span style="color: var(--color-subtle,#54595d);">]</span></p><p>Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade," saying that the song "defies explanation" because Jackson "perfectly inhabits the song’s affable weariness and because Scott Hendricks and Keith Stegall arrange it to honky-tonk heaven."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Rock_the_Jukebox_(song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><p><br></p>