I’ll take B+D’s “Red Dirt Road” or Sawyer Brown’s “The Dirt Road” over this song any day. And with much better execution than anyone associated with this song could ever pull off. It’s such a novel concept to sing about dirt roads, I cannot believe it hasn’t been done before. Songs like this are so rare, I’d forgotten what it means to live the country lifestyle.
Written by Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert What a tragedy it would be for the story of an entire people to be lost in time, leaving future generations in the dark about what it was really like to be a son of the south in the early 21st century. I know that country music’s aversion to formulaic songwriting makes such a scenario unlikely, but in this case, it is absolutely necessary. I don’t usually root for a song to be successful, but it is imperative that this one makes an impact, so other artists are encouraged to tell us, in detail, what it means to be a country person in modern society. I can only imagine how vindicating and empowering it will be for these folks to finally hear a song about them on the radio. Hopefully, “Dirt Road Anthem” will be only the beginning of songs that tell us about the country lifestyle and what it means to those who live it. With voyeuristic intimacy, Aldean allows us to walk in the shoes of small town men and women. I was shocked to discover that this subculture of American society thrives beyond the paved roads provided by federal and state governments, a stunning statement of independence from the restrictions that we have attempted to construct around such resilient communities.
How fearless of Aldean to allow outsiders this rare glimpse into the social mores and recreational activities of southern youth.įor the first time, we learn that country music legends are so revered that their name need only be mentioned to evoke a deep-rooted value system. With this single, Jason Aldean pulls back the curtain on the mysterious ways of rural southern society. 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.Few songs have come along that serve such a valid sociological purpose as “Dirt Road Anthem.” Aldean was on stage at 2017’s Route 91 Harvest festival in Paradise, Nevada, when a gunman opened fire, killing 58 and wounding hundreds. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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 signalled 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.
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