![]() One of the things that has eluded me so far is the Entertainer of the Year Award. There’s a ton of stadiums I’d love to play. “There’s always goals that you have set and things that you’d like to do. While Aldean is regularly nominated for the organization’s top awards, his only major win was in 2011 for Album of the Year (“My Kinda Party”).Īldean didn’t have any negative words for the organization, but he did say winning the top awards was among his goals. Just a few hours after the interview, news that Aldean’s father had written an angry post on Facebook that his son had been snubbed in the Country Music Association Awards. You try to make music that appeals to everybody, but also the older you get you’re going to sing about things different than when you were 10 or 15 years younger.” I think any time that happens the music is gonna reflect that a little bit. ![]() So, of course, I still like to have fun and party, but I’m closer to 40 now. “When I recorded that first album I was 27. He says the songs he writes and chooses may have changed a little over the years. Why mess with something that seems to be working really well?” I go in the studio with the producer that I’ve cut every record with and it’s comfortable to me and I know how to get what I want out of everybody. To me, it’s about finding the best songs there are. I’ve never felt like an artist who needs to write every song or who needs to validate, whatever. If I write them, fine, and if I don’t that’s great, too. “It’s always been about finding great songs. You go out and you play it the way you would play it any other night.”Īnd there are other things that have remained constant as well. But once the show starts it’s business as usual. You do that through video and stuff like that. There’s months and months of preparation before we get into there to make the person on the top seat to feel like they’re part of the show. “There’s a lot more moving parts as far as what’s going on on stage as far as video and stuff like that, because it is a bigger venue. ![]() He says he’s always involved in the particulars of the stage design and video elements and those things are different for an arena show, but some things feel no different. But it’s a job and there’s a lot of pieces to the puzzle to be sure.” ![]() But that’s the only part that people really see. “The getting on stage and performing, that’s the fun part. “People don’t realize all the work that goes into it,” says Aldean. “Bigger” defines Aldean’s steady rise to the top, including making the jump from medium venues to stadiums and arenas. “It turned out to be one of the best things I ever did. “When I signed my record deal with a little bitty independent that nobody had ever heard a lot of (the Broken Bow record label) people thought I was crazy,” he says. Another one, though, seemed like a Nashville longshot. He says he made some good decisions early on, including changing management companies at a critical time. That carried on in the late ’80s and ’90s with Garth and all those guys and a lot of young people started listening to country music.” To me, Alabama were part of that trend of playing songs that everybody could relate to. “Every song wasn’t about cheating or that kind of thing. “I think somewhere in the’90s and a little in the ’80s, there were artists that a younger generation could relate to,” says Aldean. He was part of a young generation that had embraced country music for the first time in decades. 7), and is currently performing at large arenas around the country.īorn and raised in Macon, Ga., Aldean (whose stage name is an adaptation of his given name Jason Aldine Williams) began performing country music as a teenager. 1’s include “She’s Country,” “Big Green Tractor,” “Dirt Road Anthem,” “Fly Over States,” “Take a Little Time” and his most recent, “Burnin’ It Down.” He’s on the eve of releasing a new album, “Old Boots, New Dirt” (due Oct. He’s among that now tiny group of performers whose albums and singles regularly go platinum and who can fill stadiums. 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in 2005, Aldean has risen to the top tier of touring performers. But there are so many things out there that are not accurate that it’s ridiculous.” It’s crazy! It amazes me how some people can get away with what they print without any kind of validation. Even people in the music business don’t know how it works and where they get their information from. I appreciate it, but I’m not engaged.’ It was something he’d read in Us Weekly or somewhere that they’d printed. “Today for example, Gary LeVox from Rascal Flatts texted me today and said, ‘Congratulations on getting engaged!’ I just said, ‘Thanks a lot. Country star Jason Aldean says there are so many things written about him that are wrong he can’t even get started.
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