Country music’s ultimate hopeless romantic just proved he still has the moves — and the melody. Alan Jackson has released “Still the One,” a new recording that doubles as a 50-year love letter to his wife Denise, and the timing couldn’t be sweeter. The single lands the same week Jackson prepares to take his final bow at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium.

The story behind the song is the kind of thing Nashville songwriters chase their whole careers. Rewind to 1976 in Newnan, Georgia: a young Alan Jackson walked into a mutual friend’s house and watched a Newnan High School cheerleader named Denise rehearse a dance routine set to Orleans’ Top-5 pop hit “Still the One.” Three years later, he married her. Fifty years later, he’s still writing the ending.

“I sat there and watched her, and three years later I ended up marrying that girl and she’s my wife today,” Jackson recalls. “This has always been one of our fond memories of our starting-out days, and every time we hear that song…it brings back those memories.”

This spring, for Denise’s birthday, Jackson pulled the ultimate romantic power move: he booked studio time and re-cut the song himself. “I went in the studio and re-recorded that pop song with a little country seasoning on it, and I gave it to her for her birthday because she’s ‘still the one.'”

The recording is pure, unfiltered Alan Jackson joy. He opens with an ad-libbed shout-out — “This is for Nicey – 1976!” — and closes with the kind of asides only a man 50 years deep into the right marriage can pull off: “Aww, you still got it, baby!” and “Love ya, sugar!” It’s a summer-ready, up-tempo cut that swaps late-’70s soft rock polish for warm country twang, and it works.

Stream “Still the One” now: https://AlanJackson.lnk.to/StillTheOnePR

The release arrives at a monumental moment. On Saturday, June 27, Jackson will play the final full-scale concert of his career at a sold-out Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Last Call: One More for the Road – The Finale, presented by Edward Jones and Silverbelly Whiskey, features a jaw-dropping lineup joining Jackson to salute his legacy: Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Riley Green, Cody Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Jake Owen, Jon Pardi, Thomas Rhett, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, Lee Ann Womack, plus Adam Wright, Big City Brian Wright and Carlisle Wright.

Can’t get a ticket? Nashville has you covered. Downtown Broadway will host a free livestream on a giant screen right in the middle of the strip. Belmont University’s Fisher Center is offering a ticketed simulcast, and the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is livestreaming the show free for museum members. NBC will later air the concert as a television special titled Alan Jackson: The Last Show.

Also opening this week in Music City: Alan Jackson’s Silverbelly Whiskey Distillery and Museum, a first-of-its-kind downtown destination pairing career memorabilia with a taste of his signature whiskey.

Between a farewell for the ages, a museum opening, and a new song dedicated to the woman who’s been by his side since disco was king, Alan Jackson isn’t just closing a chapter — he’s writing one of the most graceful exits country music has ever seen. And somewhere in Nashville, Denise is probably smiling. She really is still the one.