General Hospital’s Jonathan Jackson Reveals His Special Connection To Nashville

General Hospital’s Jonathan Jackson recently sat down with one of his co-stars and discussed why Nashville has always been so special to him.

From Mythical To Musical

In between stints as Lucky on GH, Jackson played Avery on the primetime series Nashville. The show ran from 2012-2018 and gave the actor another musical outlet, having already been the lead singer in the band Enation (not to mention a handful of unforgettable Nurses Ball performances).

Jonathan recently joined Maurice Benard (Sonny) on State of Mind, where he delved into not the TV show Nashville, but the city itself and what working there meant to him and his family.

“Let me just put this out there,” Benard began the conversation on music. “His voice is like angels coming out of someone’s mouth. That’s what he sounds like when he’s singing.”

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Benard’s compliment prompted Jackson to talk about his father’s love of music and his upbringing, watching his father play classic country music alongside several other musicians. “Nashville had this kind of mythical feeling to me as a child,” he revealed after telling Benard that his father once took a trip to Nashville to make a record.

“All of a sudden, when I was maybe 29-30, I found myself on this show called Nashville,” Jackson continued, sharing that he dedicated his first song at the Grand Ole Opry to his father. “This is kind of my father’s dream, and I’m here, so I want to honor him,” he remembered.

When he isn’t bringing Lucky back to Port Charles, Jackson often still performs with several of his former castmates, who are hitting the road on a two-city Nashville Reunion Tour later this month.

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