Gone Country was written by Bob McDill and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on November 15, 1994, as the third single from his album Who I Am, produced by Keith Stegall for Arista, with "All American Country Boy" on the B-side. The song comments on the country music scene. Three figures, a Las Vegas lounge singer from Long Island, a Greenwich Village folk rocker and a serious composer commuting to L.A. from the San Fernando Valley, find their careers failing and decide to perform country music instead. It reached No. 1 on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for one week and No. 2 on the Canada Country Singles chart, and was certified 2x Platinum by the RIAA. Billboard's Deborah Evans Price called it "the most talked-about country song of the year". The video, directed by Michael Oblowitz, includes a flyover of the former World Trade Center towers. Miranda Lambert and Lee Ann Womack covered it on CMT Giants: Alan Jackson. Jackson used the tune in late-1990s Ford commercials as "Ford Country", and Cledus T. Judd parodied it as "Gone Funky" (1995).
