Bluegrass Album

Personnel: Scott Coney (acoustic guitar); Rob Ickes (dobro); Sammy Shelor (banjo); Adam Steffey (mandolin); Tim Crouch (fiddle); Don Rigsby, Ronnie Bowman (background vocals).Audio Mixer: John Kelton.Recording information: The Castle, Franklin, TN.Alan Jackson has had quite a run. At 54, he's had nearly a quarter of a century of being a big ticket draw in country music, with 25 number one country hits under his belt and a solid reputation as perhaps the best neo-traditionalist singer and songwriter of his generation -- he's certainly been the most commercially successful. Times change, though, and contemporary country stations, in love with younger stars and a hybrid country/rock/pop sound, don't play Jackson much these days, if at all. Jackson appears to have accepted that, because this set, his 15th studio album, finds him going bluegrass, a genre country music stations aren't likely to lend much credence to. There's nothing too startling on The Bluegrass Album. It's bluegrass, after