Alan Jackson will step onto the stage at Nissan Stadium in Nashville on June 27 for the final concert of his career, closing a touring run that stretched across decades. The show is sold out, but the farewell will not be locked inside the stadium; a free watch party will livestream the performance on Lower Broadway, and says it will later air as a prime-time TV special and stream on Peacock.
For fans searching Nashville Weather, the reason is simple: the date is here, and Jackson has made clear why he is walking away from the road. He announced his retirement from touring in 2025 during a show at Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, telling the crowd he was “kinda winding down” and calling it the “last road show” of his career.
The end of the road has been coming for years. In a 2021 interview with Jenna Bush Hager, Jackson said he inherited Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease from his father and that it had been affecting him for years. He said he was stumbling around on stage and having trouble balancing even in front of the microphone, a blunt explanation that put his condition at the center of the decision to step back from touring.
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is a group of genetic conditions that affect the nerves connecting the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body, and it can cause weakness, pain, numbness, tingling and balance problems. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke says symptoms often begin in the feet and lower legs and can spread over time. Jackson was diagnosed in 2011, and the disease has been part of the story ever since.
That is what gives the Nashville sendoff its pull and its friction. The concert is sold out, but the farewell will still reach beyond the ticketed crowd through the Lower Broadway livestream and later through television and Peacock. NBC has said the special will air later this year and stream the following day, but it has not announced the air date, leaving the timing of the wider release as the one detail still hanging over an otherwise fixed ending.
Jackson’s final bow closes a career that helped define country music in the 1990s and 2000s with songs including “Remember When” and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).” On June 27, Nashville gets the last live version of that career; the rest of the audience will just have to wait for the broadcast.
