Aldean riding "Night Train" to the top
Thursday, October 18, 2012 – Jason Aldean looks to be riding the "Night Train" all the way to the top.
At least that's the preliminary word from Billboard. The disc, Aldean's fifth, looks to be the number one selling disc in the U.S. when the charts are out officially in one week. Billboard said "industry sources" indicated the disc would hit about 400,000 units in sales. This would be Aldean's first number one and be the second biggest debut of the year behind Mumford & Sons' "Babel," which sold 600,000 units.
Chances are that Aldean's reign will be very short lived because Taylor Swift is out with "Red" next week.
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Night Train
Jason Aldean is getting used to the view from the top. His last album "My Kinda Party" spawned 5 Top 10 singles and has charted for almost 2 years. Driven by rocking country coupled with rap and a power ballad, that album seemed to rise to the top of the charts organically. With his fifth release, "Night Train," he seems to be taking dead aim at the summit.
Aldean is at his best as a studly outlaw, but the majority of the material on "Night Train" is clichéd »»» |
My Kinda Party
Jason Aldean covers plenty of familiar ground in his latest offering, moving with ease from tanned-leg Georgia dreams to square cornfields to a fairly even mix of church pews and bar stools. If anything, the album is a bit too seamless, one song melding into the next, the words on many evaporating into thin air.
But it all adds up to a very good time - exactly what you'd hope for with an album with "party" in its title. Don't Wanna Stay , a duet with Kelly Clarkson (of all »»» |
Wide Open
If there's a theme running through Jason Aldean's third disc, it's leaving the country for the city and the highways in between - indeed, no less than three songs employ shopworn metaphors equating hitting the road with living your life.
In the title track, a girl stuck in a small town finally sets out on the road to find herself, while Keep the Girl offers a man who can't decide between following his dreams or staying in the small town with his girl. In Fast, the city life is »»» |
Editorial: Walking the talk –
When names like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon and the Hag are invoked, you're talking hard core country. These are the touchstones of country , the guys who made country music what it was and still is (or maybe can be). When these folks would sing about being down-and-out and the rough-and-tumble, they knew of what they were singing about. Fast forward a few years to the country singers of today. »»»
Concert Review: McGraw has plenty of fight left –
Despite the fact that Tim McGraw is five years sober, fit as a triathlete and touring behind a number one album, he is still in an unenviable position. As he approaches 50, McGraw has to stay a step ahead of the current crop of young country hunks with TV shows, cross format radio airplay and wider appeal. But as he proved at First Niagara's... »»»
Concert Review: Steve Earle doesn't rest (on laurels) –
If you didn't realize Steve Earle had a new disc out, "The Low Highway," it would have been no problem realizing that quite and quickly.
That was because Earle started the two-hour show with three straight tracks from "The Low Highway," and he would not be done for the night. The title track of was a midtempo effort... »»»
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