April 26, 2022 • 16 mins
Country megastar Jason Aldean joins Lorianne and Charlie with unique insight into his new double album MACON GEORGIA. Get the exclusive inside tip on the most personal song he’s ever recorded and why. It’s on the album, along with his smash duet with Carrie Underwood which also has an extra special meaning to this project. Hear the stories straight from Jason Aldean on Crook & Chase Nashville Chats.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, Welcome again to Crookid Chase Nashville. Chats were
today Lorian and I are gonna post one of our favorites, uh,
Jason Aldi, and one of our megastars in country music.
We always look forward to visiting the Jason because not
only is he a great talent, but he has a
bizarre sense of humor that we just loved. So yes,
we will mess with him today and he messes back,
(00:21):
that's the problem. Listen his latest project, I guess it's
a bit out of the ordinary. It's a double album.
The first half released last fall, the remaining half releasing
just now. So we're gonna find out why he and
his team approached it that way with this uh making
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Georgia album. Yeah, it's it's named after his hometown, and
it's got some special live performances as well as brand
new songs. Boy, you imagine trying to choose all the
live performances and which one you're gonna put on an album.
It's tough. Also, today this is kind of is fun.
Jason reveals what his wife Brittany thinks of certain songs
he's recording. Did and we're gonna put him on the spot.
(01:02):
And ask him which song is the heart of this project,
you know, the one that's I guess they built it
around you know, So you'll hear his answer on that,
and wait till you hear about taste testing for his
new brand of whiskey. All the stars having a new
alcohol brand. Now, Jason Aldean, he's on top of it.
That's right, And now listen, please know going in that
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I usually try to give him all kinds of shay crap.
I guess that's a better way to say, yeah, okay
about giving him some grief about his album covers, you know,
pulling his finger and things like that. It looks it
looks like he's looking out of a porta potty on
the cover and all it. So anyway, when when I
say things like that, he knows to be expecting something. Right. Well,
(01:43):
we've known Jason ever since he hit town, so he
was ready for us. Hello Jason Aldean, Oh lord, I
know that voice anywhere. I know. I just finished asking
Charlie if he has something to start here to rock
your world today? What is it, Charlie? The thing that
I did want to bring up, I mean, as a
result of this tremendous hit song, you had with Carrie Underwood,
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which was a wonderful boost to her career. You know,
she spoiled And I'm just curious if this means more
collaborations with Carrie Underwood and are you taking her calls? Um? Well,
I mean, you know, obviously we're we're one for one
on the uh on the on the big song, So um,
I would you know, I'm always open to to working
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with with whoever. I also think like the song kind
of kind of dictates that you know who the other
artist is. And this was a song I just felt
like was it was kind of perfect for her and
um and once you know, we got in the studio
and she's saying the first line of it, it was
like it was pretty apparent that we had you know,
made the right decision and that it was going to
be something pretty special. So uh, if if we get
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another song like that that, I feel like you know
she would she would uh you know, come in and
add to and and blow it out of the water
like that again, would absolutely hit her up again and
try and do something else with her. Good. You know,
I've always had this weird question. I hope it's not
too weird, but you got two superstars. You got Jason Aldean,
you got Carrie Underwood, and of course you know, you've
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collaborated with so many other equally famous people. So when
you're standing there singing with somebody else who is also
a superstar, I mean, are you looking at Carrie going,
oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm singing with her,
and she's looking at you going, oh my god, he's
so handsome. What's going on in your minds? I think
we're probably looking at each other going, man, I hope
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we don't mess up the words here. Um. You know,
but I'll say this honestly, it Um, it kind of helps,
you know, when you're singing with somebody like that, it
kind of helps to take a little bit of the
pressure off of you because you know the other person
is carrying half the song. So um, you know. To me,
I think that's always in the back of my mind
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is like, okay, this is obviously with that song. It's
a huge song. So anytime we've had it, it's to
perform that live or whatever. Um, you know, you just
you want to do the song justice and and you
want to hold up your end of of that deal.
And so like with Karry. You know, she's gonna come
in and and uh, for the most part, she's gonna
sing it perfect. You know, she's just a great singer. So, um,
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you know, for me, I'm just like, okay, please don't
mess this up. Remember the words, you know, all that
kind of stuff. You know, that's pretty cool. So you're
not starstruck, You're just professional about it. Well, yeah, I mean,
Carrie and I've known each other. We kind of hit
the scene about the same time. You know, we were
all kind of part of that same class with with
guys like you know, Eric Church and and Miranda and
all of us kind of came up and and all
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this business together. We kind of hit the scene about
the same time. So we've all known each other for
for years and and you know, I know each other's
uh you know, wives and husbands and all that kind
of stuff, and so it's um, you know, it's I
think there's a there's a mutual respect there as far
as the artist side of everything goes, and and kind
of what everybody brings to the table on that. But uh,
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you know think, um, you know, we've all done this
stuff enough to know like, hey, this is a this
is a special song. It's gonna be cool and um,
you know when you're up there, you're gonna you know,
you you sell the song like like you do in
the studio. Yeah. So, so when we see a live
performance of this, what we think is a tattoo on
your farm basically your song lyrics. Well no, but that's
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actually I'm actually upset that I didn't think about that
before I ran out a room on my arm to
put places, put put some lyrics. You're welcome, Luke Bryan
tried that. It did not work. I remember it. Well, yeah,
that was great. Well, hey, listen, congratulations on the release
of the second half of this wonderful project for you.
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And this is unusual and that I know it was
just kind of a sole process and the uh several
months in uh in between the releases of both of
the half of the project. Is everything going the way
you expected, because this is not the norm as far
as releasing a double album, you know. Yeah, well, I
mean I don't think what we we knew, Um, I don't.
I don't know that we really knew what we were doing,
(06:04):
to be honest. Uh, it was it was the first
time we had done a double album, you know, typically
for us, we we cut a record and we throw
it out there and and uh, you know that that
record has a life of about a year, year and
a half and then you you drop a new one.
So um, for for this one, being the first double album,
it's like, alright, well, we could do it like everybody
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does typically and just drop it all at once or
kind of stagger it out. And and you know, anyway,
with anymore, with streaming and the way that that fans
kind of consume music, it's almost like they want more
music more often. So you drop an album and four
months later they're like, all right, well I've been playing
that album NonStop. I'm ready for something new. And uh
so this was kind of a way for us to
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extend the life of the album a little bit. Um,
you know, give them one album early and then wait
a few months, give them the other album when we
felt like maybe they were ready for something new. And
so it was kind of a you know, trial and
error thing for us. Really well, I've it's a great balance.
And I'm just curious as far as the live cuts
are concerned. I mean, how many different live recordings did
you peruse, so to speak and judge before you put
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it on the CD because you've had so many to
choose from. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'll say this, none
of the live tracks were recorded with the intention of
us putting them on a record. Um. You know, we
record basically every show that we do for the most part,
and so the idea was to go back and pull
a song from each of the previous nine albums, find
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a live track of one of those songs from each
of the previous nine albums, and add those to the
to the record. Um, we didn't know what those were
gonna be. We just kind of started combing through, you know,
different things. And I think a lot of times when
you find, you know, you find one song that um
is really good, you know, I think that's that's kind
of a bookmark for Okay, Well, that show was was
(07:52):
probably pretty good. So let's go and listen to some
of the other songs. Jason's voice sounds good, it's you know,
the band's playing great. Everything was cool. So let's go
look at at some more tracks from that that particular show.
And so I think that's why you see a couple
of songs are kind of from the same show. Um,
but none of those songs were ever recorded with the
intention of making it to an album. It was more
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just recorded for for us to have and then we
later on decided to put those on a record. It
just shows how good you are live man. And you know,
with this project you've done, we get a good dose
of new music and another good dose of the hits
that you're doing live. So I'm really curious, out of
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your previous hits, is there a particular song that you
just cannot wait to perform on stage for your fans? Um?
You know, I don't know. I think for me live,
the one that's probably the most fun is um is
She's Country. I mean it's it's uh, it's not a
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song to me that's like, it's not the best song
we've ever done. It's not the best lyric it's not
any of those things. But for whatever reason, when we
kick into that particular song in the middle of a show,
I mean, it is it's chaos and and so and
I love chaos, so um so yeah, I mean, but
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but that's the one that I can kind of like
I can always count on no matter what's going on
that particular night or you know whatever. It's like, once
that song kicks in, it's just that the whole energy
in the in the place changes and and I love that.
It's so true every time it comes on the radio.
I mean, I turned that thing up and I am
dancing and singing along and and I'm off key. Just
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so you know, Hey, well, I'm sure you sound great,
and record that and send it to me next time. Please.
It'll be on your next album. I'm sure, yes. And
while she's driving, she's swerving like a point twelve. Since
here's a tough question for you, since we're talking about songs,
since this double CD is so special in so many ways,
to you, which song on there include all of them? Now?
(09:59):
Do you feel was the heart of this whole project? Um?
Oh well, uh, I would say, Um, you know, I
would say that Duet is probably kind of the the
heart and soul of the record. I mean, I think
that was like, that's the song that really was the
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one that I think we knew we wanted to launch
everything with and and was really gonna get some attention
and those kind of things, and is definitely one of
the highlights on the record. Um, there's a song there.
I would say that's probably the most personal thing that
I've ever recorded, and and it's so I don't know,
left the center of things that I would normally do,
because normally I would never cut a song like this,
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but uh, this particular song was it's a song called
Your Mama that's on the on the second part of
the album that's coming out, and um, it's a song
that I would never normally cut, but it was a
song that really I cut from my son and it's
basically it's basically a letter to him, just saying, you
know how lucky he is and that that I am,
that you know he has his mom and she's who
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she is, and it's basically ME talking to him. And
so it's just a kind of a really personal thing
that I wanted to do for him. And um, and
so that to me is probably the most personal thing
that I've ever put on an album. And it's it's
so different for me, but uh but really cool and
just kind of a special thing for for us and
for for him. Well, you know, that brings up a
question because you know, Brittany is just such a part
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of your music as well. I mean, we all love
her and your story together. Is it easy for you
to make her cry or get her emotional with the
type of songs that you record. Um, I don't know
if if emotional is the word. Um, you know it's
it's kind of hard to get emotional about you know,
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we back, but but you do such you do such
heartfelt songs as well. No, there's definitely been a couple
of songs that you know, she's sort of been the um,
sort of the inspiration behind you know me recording and
uh you make it easy guy what I got or
two of those that really kind of had her you know,
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I had her in mind with those and um, so yeah,
I mean I think there's certain songs like that, uh
and this this new one that I was talking about
your mama. I think those those kind of songs really
kind of hit home for her. Um, she's not real
big on the on the rock and roll side, so
any of the rock stuff that I ever do is
she's kind of like, I don't really get that, but
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it's cool, you know. But then if it's if it's
a love song or has any sort of like R
and B pop kind of sound, she she tends to
like those. Well just so you know, we love it
when you rock. So there you go, Thank you Now.
I have to touch upon one of your newest projects. Obviously,
having a stool in your backgard just wasn't enough. So
now you have a legal brand of hooch on the
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market called wolf Moon Bourbon. Does anybody call it hooch anymore?
Is that? Okay? So what's the best way to describe
your new brand there? Uh? Yeah, So we we launched
this bourbon cul wolf Moon, and um, you know, and
for me, I mean, I'm a I'm a bourbon drinker
and and love it. But also I'm a guy that
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likes to to drink it on the rocks. So um,
it's it's fine, and something that's just kind of, you know,
easy to drink. I mean, some some whiskey bourbons, I
mean they're they're pretty pretty rough going down, and uh,
you know, and I wanted I wanted something that was
like kind of easy, you know, just sort of easy
to to sit on. And and uh so we we
worked a lot with with the people at Old Camp
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and and trying to really come up with with something
that we felt like was was smooth and something that
I would really like. And yeah, me and me, me
and my dad. It was it was a good times.
You know. I would love to be a fly on
the wall with you and your dad drinking and what
you talk about. Sure you would. Yeah, It's it's interesting.
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He's a dodge that one, Charlie. So as we wrap
up here, just in our last seconds here, I'm just
really curious, what's the feedback. What are the folks in
Georgia and the people in making what are they saying
that must be so honored that you would do such
a big, important project dedicated to them. Uh, well, you know,
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I hope, I hope they're proud of it. Um. You know,
to me, that's my it's my hometown. That's where I
was born and raised and um, you know I just
kind of always said, like, I mean, I've been in
Nashville for over twenty years now, but but Georgia will
always always be home for me. And uh, you know,
it's just where I learned to do everything. It's where
I learned how to be a musician, and um, it's
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where when I was sixteen years old. You know, some
of the older musicians in town, guys like Ronnie Hammond
that used to be part of Atlanta Rhythm Section. Um,
you know, he used to own an after hours bar
that we would. You know that those guys would invite
me to when I was sixteen years old and go
and have jam sessions, and it's where I learned how
to be a musician and how to get her and
just kind of where it all started for me. So
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it was it was me really kind of paying tribute
to to that where I'm from, but also kind of
where my music goll was inspired and kind of came from.
So hopefully at the end of the day, um, everybody
there realizes how proud I am to be from there
and and you know, my background from there, but also
hopefully they're proud of the record as well. It's gonna
be a very monumental album. I think for Jason Aldeen,
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it's not only a tribute to making Georgia, but it's
a tribute to the wonderful work he does, and that's
why they have those live performances that he's collected over
the years. I want to do something here that I
have been meaning to say to Jason in person, but
I keep forgetting to tell him. You know, there are
artists on his level, We're talking superstar level, who I mean,
they get very busy and sometimes they just don't have
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time maybe to be on the show like they used to.
Can we compliment Jason Alden. He is always here for radio,
He's always here for Crooking Chase, and he just loves
us to engage with all of his fans. And I
think that tells you a lot about his character that
he's willing to take the time, at this level in
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his career to talk to people about the music he's making.
I was checking and I'm sure there's some even before this,
but one of our first interviews with him was two
thousand six, you know, so he's been in town about
twenty years, so we got right after he signed his deal.
You know, he had some tough times getting going there, really,
but once he did, um then he's always been readily
available to come in and say hello and stay in
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touch with the fans to the show and the podcast too.
So we're very proud of that and we thank you
Jason Aldi. We love the man. Well, folks, we have
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and Chase
Hi, everybody, Welcome again to Crookid Chase Nashville. Chats were
today Lorian and I are gonna post one of our favorites, uh,
Jason Aldi, and one of our megastars in country music.
We always look forward to visiting the Jason because not
only is he a great talent, but he has a
bizarre sense of humor that we just loved. So yes,
we will mess with him today and he messes back,
(00:21):
that's the problem. Listen his latest project, I guess it's
a bit out of the ordinary. It's a double album.
The first half released last fall, the remaining half releasing
just now. So we're gonna find out why he and
his team approached it that way with this uh making
(00:41):
Georgia album. Yeah, it's it's named after his hometown, and
it's got some special live performances as well as brand
new songs. Boy, you imagine trying to choose all the
live performances and which one you're gonna put on an album.
It's tough. Also, today this is kind of is fun.
Jason reveals what his wife Brittany thinks of certain songs
he's recording. Did and we're gonna put him on the spot.
(01:02):
And ask him which song is the heart of this project,
you know, the one that's I guess they built it
around you know, So you'll hear his answer on that,
and wait till you hear about taste testing for his
new brand of whiskey. All the stars having a new
alcohol brand. Now, Jason Aldean, he's on top of it.
That's right, And now listen, please know going in that
(01:23):
I usually try to give him all kinds of shay crap.
I guess that's a better way to say, yeah, okay
about giving him some grief about his album covers, you know,
pulling his finger and things like that. It looks it
looks like he's looking out of a porta potty on
the cover and all it. So anyway, when when I
say things like that, he knows to be expecting something. Right. Well,
(01:43):
we've known Jason ever since he hit town, so he
was ready for us. Hello Jason Aldean, Oh lord, I
know that voice anywhere. I know. I just finished asking
Charlie if he has something to start here to rock
your world today? What is it, Charlie? The thing that
I did want to bring up, I mean, as a
result of this tremendous hit song, you had with Carrie Underwood,
(02:06):
which was a wonderful boost to her career. You know,
she spoiled And I'm just curious if this means more
collaborations with Carrie Underwood and are you taking her calls? Um? Well,
I mean, you know, obviously we're we're one for one
on the uh on the on the big song, So um,
I would you know, I'm always open to to working
(02:28):
with with whoever. I also think like the song kind
of kind of dictates that you know who the other
artist is. And this was a song I just felt
like was it was kind of perfect for her and
um and once you know, we got in the studio
and she's saying the first line of it, it was
like it was pretty apparent that we had you know,
made the right decision and that it was going to
be something pretty special. So uh, if if we get
(02:51):
another song like that that, I feel like you know
she would she would uh you know, come in and
add to and and blow it out of the water
like that again, would absolutely hit her up again and
try and do something else with her. Good. You know,
I've always had this weird question. I hope it's not
too weird, but you got two superstars. You got Jason Aldean,
you got Carrie Underwood, and of course you know, you've
(03:12):
collaborated with so many other equally famous people. So when
you're standing there singing with somebody else who is also
a superstar, I mean, are you looking at Carrie going,
oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm singing with her,
and she's looking at you going, oh my god, he's
so handsome. What's going on in your minds? I think
we're probably looking at each other going, man, I hope
(03:34):
we don't mess up the words here. Um. You know,
but I'll say this honestly, it Um, it kind of helps,
you know, when you're singing with somebody like that, it
kind of helps to take a little bit of the
pressure off of you because you know the other person
is carrying half the song. So um, you know. To me,
I think that's always in the back of my mind
(03:56):
is like, okay, this is obviously with that song. It's
a huge song. So anytime we've had it, it's to
perform that live or whatever. Um, you know, you just
you want to do the song justice and and you
want to hold up your end of of that deal.
And so like with Karry. You know, she's gonna come
in and and uh, for the most part, she's gonna
sing it perfect. You know, she's just a great singer. So, um,
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you know, for me, I'm just like, okay, please don't
mess this up. Remember the words, you know, all that
kind of stuff. You know, that's pretty cool. So you're
not starstruck, You're just professional about it. Well, yeah, I mean,
Carrie and I've known each other. We kind of hit
the scene about the same time. You know, we were
all kind of part of that same class with with
guys like you know, Eric Church and and Miranda and
all of us kind of came up and and all
(04:38):
this business together. We kind of hit the scene about
the same time. So we've all known each other for
for years and and you know, I know each other's
uh you know, wives and husbands and all that kind
of stuff, and so it's um, you know, it's I
think there's a there's a mutual respect there as far
as the artist side of everything goes, and and kind
of what everybody brings to the table on that. But uh,
(04:59):
you know think, um, you know, we've all done this
stuff enough to know like, hey, this is a this
is a special song. It's gonna be cool and um,
you know when you're up there, you're gonna you know,
you you sell the song like like you do in
the studio. Yeah. So, so when we see a live
performance of this, what we think is a tattoo on
your farm basically your song lyrics. Well no, but that's
(05:21):
actually I'm actually upset that I didn't think about that
before I ran out a room on my arm to
put places, put put some lyrics. You're welcome, Luke Bryan
tried that. It did not work. I remember it. Well, yeah,
that was great. Well, hey, listen, congratulations on the release
of the second half of this wonderful project for you.
(05:42):
And this is unusual and that I know it was
just kind of a sole process and the uh several
months in uh in between the releases of both of
the half of the project. Is everything going the way
you expected, because this is not the norm as far
as releasing a double album, you know. Yeah, well, I
mean I don't think what we we knew, Um, I don't.
I don't know that we really knew what we were doing,
(06:04):
to be honest. Uh, it was it was the first
time we had done a double album, you know, typically
for us, we we cut a record and we throw
it out there and and uh, you know that that
record has a life of about a year, year and
a half and then you you drop a new one.
So um, for for this one, being the first double album,
it's like, alright, well, we could do it like everybody
(06:25):
does typically and just drop it all at once or
kind of stagger it out. And and you know, anyway,
with anymore, with streaming and the way that that fans
kind of consume music, it's almost like they want more
music more often. So you drop an album and four
months later they're like, all right, well I've been playing
that album NonStop. I'm ready for something new. And uh
so this was kind of a way for us to
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extend the life of the album a little bit. Um,
you know, give them one album early and then wait
a few months, give them the other album when we
felt like maybe they were ready for something new. And
so it was kind of a you know, trial and
error thing for us. Really well, I've it's a great balance.
And I'm just curious as far as the live cuts
are concerned. I mean, how many different live recordings did
you peruse, so to speak and judge before you put
(07:08):
it on the CD because you've had so many to
choose from. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'll say this, none
of the live tracks were recorded with the intention of
us putting them on a record. Um. You know, we
record basically every show that we do for the most part,
and so the idea was to go back and pull
a song from each of the previous nine albums, find
(07:30):
a live track of one of those songs from each
of the previous nine albums, and add those to the
to the record. Um, we didn't know what those were
gonna be. We just kind of started combing through, you know,
different things. And I think a lot of times when
you find, you know, you find one song that um
is really good, you know, I think that's that's kind
of a bookmark for Okay, Well, that show was was
(07:52):
probably pretty good. So let's go and listen to some
of the other songs. Jason's voice sounds good, it's you know,
the band's playing great. Everything was cool. So let's go
look at at some more tracks from that that particular show.
And so I think that's why you see a couple
of songs are kind of from the same show. Um,
but none of those songs were ever recorded with the
intention of making it to an album. It was more
(08:13):
just recorded for for us to have and then we
later on decided to put those on a record. It
just shows how good you are live man. And you know,
with this project you've done, we get a good dose
of new music and another good dose of the hits
that you're doing live. So I'm really curious, out of
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your previous hits, is there a particular song that you
just cannot wait to perform on stage for your fans? Um?
You know, I don't know. I think for me live,
the one that's probably the most fun is um is
She's Country. I mean it's it's uh, it's not a
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song to me that's like, it's not the best song
we've ever done. It's not the best lyric it's not
any of those things. But for whatever reason, when we
kick into that particular song in the middle of a show,
I mean, it is it's chaos and and so and
I love chaos, so um so yeah, I mean, but
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but that's the one that I can kind of like
I can always count on no matter what's going on
that particular night or you know whatever. It's like, once
that song kicks in, it's just that the whole energy
in the in the place changes and and I love that.
It's so true every time it comes on the radio.
I mean, I turned that thing up and I am
dancing and singing along and and I'm off key. Just
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so you know, Hey, well, I'm sure you sound great,
and record that and send it to me next time. Please.
It'll be on your next album. I'm sure, yes. And
while she's driving, she's swerving like a point twelve. Since
here's a tough question for you, since we're talking about songs,
since this double CD is so special in so many ways,
to you, which song on there include all of them? Now?
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Do you feel was the heart of this whole project? Um?
Oh well, uh, I would say, Um, you know, I
would say that Duet is probably kind of the the
heart and soul of the record. I mean, I think
that was like, that's the song that really was the
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one that I think we knew we wanted to launch
everything with and and was really gonna get some attention
and those kind of things, and is definitely one of
the highlights on the record. Um, there's a song there.
I would say that's probably the most personal thing that
I've ever recorded, and and it's so I don't know,
left the center of things that I would normally do,
because normally I would never cut a song like this,
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but uh, this particular song was it's a song called
Your Mama that's on the on the second part of
the album that's coming out, and um, it's a song
that I would never normally cut, but it was a
song that really I cut from my son and it's
basically it's basically a letter to him, just saying, you
know how lucky he is and that that I am,
that you know he has his mom and she's who
(11:05):
she is, and it's basically ME talking to him. And
so it's just a kind of a really personal thing
that I wanted to do for him. And um, and
so that to me is probably the most personal thing
that I've ever put on an album. And it's it's
so different for me, but uh but really cool and
just kind of a special thing for for us and
for for him. Well, you know, that brings up a
question because you know, Brittany is just such a part
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of your music as well. I mean, we all love
her and your story together. Is it easy for you
to make her cry or get her emotional with the
type of songs that you record. Um, I don't know
if if emotional is the word. Um, you know it's
it's kind of hard to get emotional about you know,
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we back, but but you do such you do such
heartfelt songs as well. No, there's definitely been a couple
of songs that you know, she's sort of been the um,
sort of the inspiration behind you know me recording and
uh you make it easy guy what I got or
two of those that really kind of had her you know,
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I had her in mind with those and um, so yeah,
I mean I think there's certain songs like that, uh
and this this new one that I was talking about
your mama. I think those those kind of songs really
kind of hit home for her. Um, she's not real
big on the on the rock and roll side, so
any of the rock stuff that I ever do is
she's kind of like, I don't really get that, but
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it's cool, you know. But then if it's if it's
a love song or has any sort of like R
and B pop kind of sound, she she tends to
like those. Well just so you know, we love it
when you rock. So there you go, Thank you Now.
I have to touch upon one of your newest projects. Obviously,
having a stool in your backgard just wasn't enough. So
now you have a legal brand of hooch on the
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market called wolf Moon Bourbon. Does anybody call it hooch anymore?
Is that? Okay? So what's the best way to describe
your new brand there? Uh? Yeah, So we we launched
this bourbon cul wolf Moon, and um, you know, and
for me, I mean, I'm a I'm a bourbon drinker
and and love it. But also I'm a guy that
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likes to to drink it on the rocks. So um,
it's it's fine, and something that's just kind of, you know,
easy to drink. I mean, some some whiskey bourbons, I
mean they're they're pretty pretty rough going down, and uh,
you know, and I wanted I wanted something that was
like kind of easy, you know, just sort of easy
to to sit on. And and uh so we we
worked a lot with with the people at Old Camp
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and and trying to really come up with with something
that we felt like was was smooth and something that
I would really like. And yeah, me and me, me
and my dad. It was it was a good times.
You know. I would love to be a fly on
the wall with you and your dad drinking and what
you talk about. Sure you would. Yeah, It's it's interesting.
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He's a dodge that one, Charlie. So as we wrap
up here, just in our last seconds here, I'm just
really curious, what's the feedback. What are the folks in
Georgia and the people in making what are they saying
that must be so honored that you would do such
a big, important project dedicated to them. Uh, well, you know,
(14:19):
I hope, I hope they're proud of it. Um. You know,
to me, that's my it's my hometown. That's where I
was born and raised and um, you know I just
kind of always said, like, I mean, I've been in
Nashville for over twenty years now, but but Georgia will
always always be home for me. And uh, you know,
it's just where I learned to do everything. It's where
I learned how to be a musician, and um, it's
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where when I was sixteen years old. You know, some
of the older musicians in town, guys like Ronnie Hammond
that used to be part of Atlanta Rhythm Section. Um,
you know, he used to own an after hours bar
that we would. You know that those guys would invite
me to when I was sixteen years old and go
and have jam sessions, and it's where I learned how
to be a musician and how to get her and
just kind of where it all started for me. So
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it was it was me really kind of paying tribute
to to that where I'm from, but also kind of
where my music goll was inspired and kind of came from.
So hopefully at the end of the day, um, everybody
there realizes how proud I am to be from there
and and you know, my background from there, but also
hopefully they're proud of the record as well. It's gonna
be a very monumental album. I think for Jason Aldeen,
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it's not only a tribute to making Georgia, but it's
a tribute to the wonderful work he does, and that's
why they have those live performances that he's collected over
the years. I want to do something here that I
have been meaning to say to Jason in person, but
I keep forgetting to tell him. You know, there are
artists on his level, We're talking superstar level, who I mean,
they get very busy and sometimes they just don't have
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time maybe to be on the show like they used to.
Can we compliment Jason Alden. He is always here for radio,
He's always here for Crooking Chase, and he just loves
us to engage with all of his fans. And I
think that tells you a lot about his character that
he's willing to take the time, at this level in
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his career to talk to people about the music he's making.
I was checking and I'm sure there's some even before this,
but one of our first interviews with him was two
thousand six, you know, so he's been in town about
twenty years, so we got right after he signed his deal.
You know, he had some tough times getting going there, really,
but once he did, um then he's always been readily
available to come in and say hello and stay in
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touch with the fans to the show and the podcast too.
So we're very proud of that and we thank you
Jason Aldi. We love the man. Well, folks, we have
your country covered, as you can tell. Listen to the
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