Listening Party! - Jason Aldean - (Wide Open)

[kevin59]

APR 07

Jason Aldean
"Wide Open"
(BBR)


[PREVIEW CLIPS] Jason Aldean - "Wide Open" (FULL Listening Party! CLOSED)

Track List:

1. Wide Open
2. This I Gotta See
3. Fast
4. Crazy Town
5. Don't Give Up On Me
6. She's Country
7. On My Highway
8. Keep The Girl
9. Big Green Tractor
10. The Truth
11. Love Was Easy

NOTE:

Wal-Mart Bonus Track - "My Home's In Alabama" (Ft. Randy Owen)

Itunes Bonus Track - "Best Of Me"

[leilamaurizia]

All Music Guide

3 out of 5 stars

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Jason Aldean quietly turned into a genuine country star in the back half of the 2000s - not the kind who has pop hits, but the kind that steadily reaches the country Top 10, primed for a crossover hit. Wide Open, his third album, might take him there, since he manages to hit every contemporary cliché in the book without seeming too systematic about it. That light touch takes Aldean a long way, as it never appears that he's pandering even though he kind of is, making sure that he has songs about small-town girls with big-city dreams, a paeans to Nashville, mournful laments about his rowdy ways, a tune about his big green tractor and loves songs to the country and girls from the country. Aldean puts a lot of rock in his country, particularly on the stuttering AC/DC riff that powers "She's Country," which is a bit of a compensation for the plainness of his voice, but his simple, affectless singing does disguise just how shopworn his songs are. He doesn't necessarily turn the familiar into something fresh, but his keen, plainspoken voice does ground Wide Open, making ballads feel intimate and party anthems not too rowdy. It's nothing too risky, nothing too soft, just a straight shot down the middle of the road - a road that runs through a subdivision that only becomes memorable through repetition.

[Call Me Crazy]

Jason's new cd is in one of those crappy cardboard cases. I hate when record labels do that.

[kim8]

^ It's called environmentally friendly packaging :)

[efmchico]

This is available to download now from Amazon for $3.99 (Great deal and a day early too!)

I think the price is only for today. Keith Urban's new cd is also 3.99

www.amazon.com/Wide-Open/dp/B001ZWT5T4/ref=amb_link_84032991_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_r=1TBTFBSND2G8VA9P8TPD&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=472973511&pf_rd_i=163856011

[nsfb17]

Can't wait to buy this tomorrow. Jason is one of my favorite artists.

[cufan7]

I love the song "Big Green Tractor"!
I bet you anything that'll be the next single!

[leilamaurizia]

HDD first-week sales prediction:

Broken Bow/RED country phenom Jason Aldean’s third album, Wide Open, could also do 100k, based on the success of the lead single, “She’s Country,” currently the #1 ringtone at iTunes, with download sales of more than 400k. He’ll also perform on NBC’s Today Show Friday (4/10) and, later that night, at opening day for the Atlanta Braves.

[kw9461]

100k? What did his last album open at? That's quite an accomplishment if he can hit the 100k mark. Dierks Bentley only opened with 71k and I would consider him a much bigger star than Jason. I think those 100,000 people are getting their money's worth though, because this is a terrific album. Drums are a little loud on a few songs, drowning out the guitar, but overall the production stays out of the way and actually complements the songs (a rarity these days). I don't think there is a single song on the album I don't like. Keep the Girl is probably my favorite, and I really hope it's a single, and I'd like to see Wide Open be a single as well. Fast and On My Highway are both good, but they seem to cover the same exact territory. Don't Give Up On Me and The Truth are compelling lyrics, but they probably lack the hook necessary to be a single. Big Green Tractor is a bit cheesy, but Jason manages to make the song quite charming. Probably my least favorite song on the album is This I Gotta See, which is still a fine song, but I think the song suited Andy Griggs voice a bit better.

[nsfb17]

^ Relentless debuted with 98k.

[kw9461]

Thanks, I didn't realize that it debuted so strong. Still, matching your last album is quite an accomplishment in this economy. None of the other stars that have released albums in the last couple of months have been able to match their previous marks.