

Latest Release

- JAN 24, 2025
- 4 Songs
- Rearview Town · 2018
- 9 · 2019
- Wide Open · 2009
- Night Train · 2012
- Rearview Town · 2018
- They Don't Know · 2016
- Rearview Town · 2018
- Wide Open · 2008
- My Kinda Party · 2010
- My Kinda Party · 2010
Essential Albums
- After conquering the country airwaves with 2009’s Wide Open, Jason Aldean followed up his best-selling album to date by going even bigger: heavier guitars, arrangements tailor-made for huge venues, and a duet with pop star and American Idol icon Kelly Clarkson. But it didn’t take any big switch-ups style-wise; 2010’s My Kinda Party deploys Aldean’s signature country rock, but does so on a grander scale than he ever had before. Wide Open’s major success had cemented the Georgia singer as highly bankable, and he had his pick of some of Music City’s best songwriters’ top-tier offerings. Fellow Georgia singer and songwriter Brantley Gilbert took the reins on two of the album’s singles. He’s the brains behind the hard-rocking title track about blowing off a little steam at the end of the workweek. His hand also delivered “Dirt Road Anthem” (with an assist from Colt Ford), which finds Aldean enmeshed in the grooves and cadences of hip-hop, rapping verses about small-town life and getting nostalgic about tailgate parties, a move that put him in league with the burgeoning bro-country style that was on the rise. David Lee Murphy (of “Dust on the Bottle” fame) helped pen the gratitude-laden love song “Just Passing Through,” and country star Thomas Rhett gets a credit on “I Ain’t Ready to Quit.” The duet with Clarkson, “Don’t You Wanna Stay,” caters to a gift both performers have: the ability to pull off arena-sized melodrama. The event in question—that moment when two people are trying to decide where a night is going—is brief but rings huge when rendered in Clarkson’s soaring soprano. Aldean’s embrace of pop and hip-hop—filtered through his tried-and-true country-rock sound—helped turn My Kinda Party into a commercial triumph, going four times Platinum. Of course, his commitment to his roots keeps fans coming back, too. On the album’s final single, “Fly Over States,” Aldean takes a couple of first-class travelers on a cross-country flight to task for trashing life in America’s heartland.
Artist Playlists
- A country man of many talents.
- The country star's clips put you in the center of the action.
- Lean back and relax with some of the mellowest cuts.
- Listen to the hits performed on their blockbuster tour.
Appears On
More To Hear
- The Georgian shares stories behind his new album and home state.
- Jason Aldean on 'GEORGIA,' crafting songs for the road and more.
- Jason opens up about his roots and definition of country music.
- Celebrating Jason’s career up to the release of MACON/GEORGIA.
- Jason joins Kelleigh to talk music from 'MACON.'
- Jason discusses his new double album 'MACON, GEORGIA.'
- Jason Aldean talks "If I Didn't Love You."
About Jason Aldean
In the 2010s, Jason Aldean hit paydirt with a canny mix of yesteryear and up-to-the-minute: His 10-gallon Stetson and outlaw’s glower signaled vague traditionalism, while his songs—party-hearty small-town anthems with revved-up guitars and flashes of hip-hop—embodied the definitively modern machismo that much of popular country was pointing toward. Born in Macon, Georgia, in 1977, Aldean moved to Nashville at 21 and toiled on the bar circuit for half a decade before signing with Broken Bow Records. His debut yielded three hit singles, but the big breakthrough was 2010’s My Kinda Party, which established Aldean as one of country’s top stars. He played up his provincialism on hits like “Fly Over States” and “The Only Way I Know,” both paeans to life in the sticks, but Aldean is a stealth cosmopolitan, a natural crossover artist whose commercial instincts have proven shrewd and influential. He rapped on the 2011 No. 1 hit “Dirt Road Anthem” and continued to integrate hip-hop and EDM production on 2012’s Night Train and 2014’s Old Boots, New Dirt. Aldean was onstage at 2017’s Route 91 Harvest festival in Paradise, Nevada, when a gunman opened fire, killing 60 and wounding hundreds. The following weekend, he appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform a tribute to the fallen—a commanding cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” whose message of surly stoicism fit Aldean to a T. That sentiment has carried Aldean across a number of albums to follow, including a pair of tributes to his hometown and state (2021’s Macon, 2022’s Georgia) and 2023’s Highway Desperado, a lonely ode to the road that lies ahead and the trials along the way.
- FROM
- Macon, GA, United States
- BORN
- February 28, 1977
- GENRE
- Country