<h4>The superstar is on tour supporting his Highway Desperado album</h4>
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Jason Aldean brought a muscle-country party to Jiffy Lube Live on Friday (Aug 31st) during his Highway Desperado Tour. From the moment the downbeat dropped on “ Burnin’ It Down,” Aldean and his stellar band didn’t let up for 22 songs.
Wearing a Charlie Daniels Band shirt and his trademark sepia-tan cowboy hat, Aldean’s rich twang rang through the amphitheater from the rafters to the lawn. Where others might layer fiddle and mandolin to compliment their southern sound, Aldean weaves a complex web of guitar, bass, and steel that gives his music the kind of “oomph” that has fueled his high-octane career. With instrumentation firmly supplanted between tradition and bro-country, Aldean’s catalog is instantly—and distinctively—recognizable.
That hard-as-nails guitar was prominent on “Girl Like You” and the chest-thumping “We Back.” Aldean broke out the Z-top guitar for a new number from his Highway Desperado album called “Whiskey Drink.”
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An early song that especially resonated with the Northern Virginia crowd was “Flyover States,” a tome about life in rural America. It speaks to what appeals to an artist in each market. In Bristow, the song received a roar of recognition, while the city crowd at NYC’s Madison Square Garden didn’t latch onto it as quite so anthemic.
A Jason Aldean show is not abrasively political, despite some recent social media fever around Jason and his influencer wife, Britney Aldean. But a T-shirt tossed on stage printed with “TRUMP/ALDEAN ‘24” received a cheer equal to the opening notes of “Dirt Road Anthem.”
Addressing the controversy around his zeitgeist-capturing No. 1 hit, “Try That in the Small Town,” Aldean said, “It’s a crazy day in the country when I’m the asshole for putting out a song that calls out people for disrespect. What they didn’t know is I didn’t care.” And neither did Aldean’s fans, who sent the song to the top of the charts.
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Contrary to the backlash, the songwriters recently told media and others gathered to celebrate “Try That in a Small Town” ascending the charts that the song came from a place “of love.” The song, they said, was about the sense of kinship that small-town dwellers feel for each other. They wanted the song to be about sticking together in the face of adversity, not a declaration of division.
Aldean followed “Small Town” with a hard-rock interpretation of “Crazy Town,” and a slow-burning “Trouble With The Heartbreak.”
By the end of the night, Aldean had showcased why he’s a mainstay: not only does he speak to American life, he does so with a passion that millions have, but few know how to express. Whether from a Hicktown in a Flyover State driving a Big Green Tractor, or someone in a metropolis that loves Burnin’ it Down, Aldean gets—and sings—for you.

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Jason Aldean rocks DMV with hard-driving country music