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When Alan Jackson’s eldest daughter handed him a poem she had written in grief, the country singer carried her pages into his study and turned them into a song. In September 2018, less than a year after her wedding, twenty-eight-year-old Mattie Jackson Selecman became a widow. Her husband, twenty-eight-year-old assistant district attorney Ben Selecman, suffered a fatal fall on a dock in Jupiter, Florida, while helping a woman onto a boat just two days before his twenty-ninth birthday. Following the accident, Mattie moved back into Alan and Denise Jackson’s Nashville home for several months. Alan had always tried to shield his three daughters, Mattie, Ali, and Dani, and the hardest part for him as a father was realizing he could not fix his child’s pain. Instead, he sat with her on the porch over morning coffee and listened. During those months at home, Mattie wrote a poem titled
When Alan Jackson’s eldest daughter handed him a poem she had written in grief, the country singer carried her pages into his study and turned them into a song. In September 2018, less than a year after her wedding, twenty-eight-year-old Mattie Jackson Selecman became a widow. Her husband, twenty-eight-year-old assistant district attorney Ben Selecman, suffered a fatal fall on a dock in Jupiter, Florida, while helping a woman onto a boat just two days before his twenty-ninth birthday. Following the accident, Mattie moved back into Alan and Denise Jackson’s Nashville home for several months. Alan had always tried to shield his three daughters, Mattie, Ali, and Dani, and the hardest part for him as a father was realizing he could not fix his child’s pain. Instead, he sat with her on the porch over morning coffee and listened. During those months at home, Mattie wrote a poem titled "Racing the Dark." Hesitant to show rough pages to a Hall of Fame songwriter, she finally handed them to her dad. Alan kept her phrasing intact, set the piece to an acoustic guitar melody, and stepped into the studio to record their co-written ballad even as he quietly managed his own degenerative nerve condition, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. That same year, Alan included the wedding song he had written for his daughters, "You'll Always Be My Baby," on his May 2021 album Where Have You Gone. In November 2021, he and Mattie released "Racing the Dark" alongside her memoir, Lemons on Friday, named after a small lemon tree Ben had brought her days before the Florida trip and opened with a foreword by Alan and Denise. Putting his voice to her words gave a father a way to help carry a weight he could not take away. How Alan and Mattie brought "Racing the Dark" to the studio and released Lemons on Friday gets more context below.

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