Jason Aldean - "Rearview Town"

[recordyear]

1. Dirt to Dust – (Jaron Boyer, Ben Stennis, Michael Tyler)
2. Set It Off – (Brandon Kinney, Jody Stevens, Josh Thompson)
3. Girl Like You – (Jaron Boyer, Josh Mirenda, Michael Tyler)
4. You Make It Easy – (Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley, Jordan Schmidt, Morgan Wallen)
5. Gettin’ Warmed Up – (Jaron Boyer, Josh Mirenda, Cole Taylor)
6. Blacktop Gone – (Brett Beavers, Derric Ruttan, Josh Thompson)
7. Drowns the Whiskey (Feat. Miranda Lambert) – (Brandon Kinney, Jeff Middleton, Josh Thompson)
8. Rearview Town – (Kelley Lovelace, Bobby Pinson, Neil Thrasher)
9. Love Me or Don’t – (Tyler Hubbard, Jordan Schmidt, Morgan Wallen)
10. Like You Were Mine – (Kurt Allison, Jonathan Edwards, Tully Kennedy, Brian White)
11. Better at Being Who I Am – (Casey Beathard, Wendall Mobley, Neil Thrasher)
12. I’ll Wait for You – (Nick Brophy, Michael Delaney, Jennifer Hanson, Neil Thrasher)
13. Ride All Night – (Dallas Davidson, Kyle Fishman, Houston Phillips)
14. Up in Smoke – (Jessi Alexander, David Lee Murphy, Chris Stevens)
15. High Noon Neon – (Tony Martin, Lee Miller, Neil Thrasher)

No listening party for this one yet because he held off free-tier streaming (Spotify free users and Youtube) of non-instant grat tracks for first two weeks.
But you can still listen to the five tracks that are available prior to album release.

[dm2081]

Only briefly previewed the songs so far, but "Drowns The Whiskey" sounds like an obvious big hit. Hopefully that can be the next single. I'll post my full thoughts once I get to digest the album more.

[phil1996]

Yikes. What a huge step down from They Don't Know. Most of this album is overproduced bro-stuff.

The Miranda duet is excellent, I will say. Rearview Town, High Noon Neon are solid tracks too. Other than that, I'm not liking this record at all

[Deleted]

Best album in a while from Aldean. I love too that Aldean admitted his last two albums were complacent and sort of mailed-in because those are the exact vibes I got from them. You can tell he's a lot more invested in these songs and as a result you get a much better project.

[countrymusicjunkie]

"Better At Being Who I Am" and "Drowns The Whiskey" are both excellent, definitely the two standout tracks from the album. "High Noon Neon" and "Rearview Town" are really good as well. The rest of the album is one big disappointment. Most of these song's aren't the least bit country and the production on most of them is just awful. Overall this might be my least favorite album  of Jason's career.

[CoJoFan]

As an Aldean fam this album was kind of a disappointment to me. There were a few bright spots for me like “Rearview Town”, “High Noon Neon”, “Girl Like You”, “Drowns The Whiskey”, & “Better At Being Who I Am”. Them are all the single worthy songs I think.

[justin5545]

Oh no!! Jason has been reinfected by the bro country virus! Which caused him to puke into a microphone and then add auto tune to try and make it sound good.

[phil1996]

Apr 14, 2018 21:25:12 GMT -5 justin5545 said:

Oh no!! Jason has been reinfected by the bro country virus! Which caused him to puke into a microphone and then add auto tune to try and make it sound good.

His previous album was such a great step in the right direction. This makes Old Boots New Dirt look tremendous. Man oh man.

[justin5545]

Apr 15, 2018 11:07:47 GMT -5 phil1996 said:

Apr 14, 2018 21:25:12 GMT -5 justin5545 said:

Oh no!! Jason has been reinfected by the bro country virus! Which caused him to puke into a microphone and then add auto tune to try and make it sound good.

His previous album was such a great step in the right direction. This makes Old Boots New Dirt look tremendous. Man oh man.

100% agree. This has the potential to be a pretty good era singles wise if they picks 3 good songs as the next 3 singles, but they won't and they'll screw it up.

[someguy]

I've found this album to be a big step backwards for him. I had high hopes that it would be different based on "You Make It Easy", but unfortunately that's not the case. There are still some good songs on here though at least, just the album as a whole isn't what I was hoping for.

Ideally, the singles would be:

1. You Make It Easy
2. Drowns The Whiskey
3. Rearview Town
4. Better At Being Who I Am

That would still give him hits, and allow him to showcase the better songs. Chances are it won't work out like that, though. I see one of the first three tracks on the album becoming a single.

[.indulgecountry]

Not really an Aldean fan so I've never felt compelled to listen to any of his albums in full, this one included, but I'm just popping in to say that "Drowns the Whiskey" is pretty marvelous. I was definitely wishing it would be a full-fledged duet with Miranda Lambert (like he did w/ Kelsea Ballerini on his last record), but it's still fantastic as is and her harmony vocals are gorgeous as expected. Really hoping it's a single down the line, especially because I know it would be her best shot at actually getting something back to the top of the charts since her solo music lately hasn't been the most radio-friendly.

[seak05]

The pre-releases were the best part, as a whole the album is a reversion to bro

[recordyear]

HDD predicted 158-163k pure sales and 171-176k SPS, with ticket bundle.

[lady𝓐fan]

Apr 16, 2018 4:03:58 GMT -5 recordyear said:

HDD predicted 158-163k pure sales and 171-176k SPS, with ticket bundle.

Updated to 165-170k sales and 178-183 SPS.

[codyj100]

Gosh, what a disappointment. I really liked They Don't Know as I thought Old Boots, New Dirt was a HUGE step backwards. But now, Rearview Town slips behind OBND for me. This seems like a rushed mess to just put something out. "Drowns The Whiskey," "You Make It Easy" and "Rearview Town" are the good songs here. The rest is easily forgettable. "Gettin' Warmed Up" honestly feels like a mesh between "Just Gettin' Started" and "Lights Come On" with a sprinkle of "Dirt Road Anthem," none of which is a compliment. 

To me, the similarities of "You Make It Easy" to Keith's "Blue Ain't Your Color" are too apparent here. The single actually sounds out of place on this album if you ask me. Which just tells me he tried to release something that caught on with Keith, hoping he could do the same. 

It's sad, I used to have such high hopes for Jason's music, and he used to be a respectable performer but now his music has just become blah. I guess I'll go back to They Don't Know and just wait another two years for the follow up to this. 

[justme60]

Did he win entertainer because he was the artist on stage at the time of the Vegas shooting?

All the DJs(well, the ones that posted their predictions) that were predicting the awards before ACMs were saying that thought he deserved it because of how he acted after the shooting!!

I've even heard people say that it has to do with William Morris Endeavor group that represent him and Miranda too!! How does that happen?

I've seen Jason and to me he is not good in concert! He shows no real emotions!

The ACMs seem so rigged!

His performance last night was not good. So flat.

[aldo01]

another mediocre and boring album by the most overrated and bland artist in country music. But apparently country radio, media and ACM's love him so they will shove this garbage down our throats over and over. Meh

[dm2081]

Finally had some time to digest the album a bit.  Upon first listen, I was rather disappointed.  This is definitely a step down from They Don't Know.  There are some songs on here that feel like they were written in 2014, and I have to believe that Jason is getting offered better options that a few of these.  That being said, more of the songs grew on me with repeat listens.  There are a few quality standouts.  The first and best song is "Drowns The Whiskey" - what a beauty of a song.  This seriously is one of Jason's best songs IMO.  This has to be a single, and its been selling really well as an album track even without being a pre-album release download.  Miranda complements him so well when he sings.  Besides that one and "You Make It Easy" (which is a quality lead single), I also really like "Rearview Town", "Better At Being Who I Am", "I'll Wait For You", "Up In Smoke" (mostly for the chorus) and "Ride All Night".  I imagine most on here won't like "Ride All Night", but I could see that being a big single for him.  Sonically, its the closest thing he's done to "Burnin' It Down", and definitely has a very modern production feel to it.  Curious to see how the singles will fair this era.  If he follows up "You Make It Easy" with one of the few bro-lite songs on here then I see him losing his big momentum pretty easily.

Here's how I'd choose the singles this era:

1. "You Make It Easy" (already chosen)
2. "Drowns The Whiskey (Featuring Miranda Lambert)"
3. "Rearview Town"
4. "Ride All Night"

Don't think they'll make it to 5 singles deep this era.

[onebuffalo]

#1 country, #1 top 200 album with 162,000 sold. Congratulations, Jason Aldean.