The 2021 CMA Awards will air live from Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday, November 10 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, and for the first time in a long while, hosted by just one person!
Jason Aldean is mourning the death of his longtime friend.
On Wednesday (August 25), the 44-year-old country singer took to social media to pen an emotional tribute to his longtime friend and security guard Ryan “Rhino” Fleming.
The two country superstars sing about watching the other date other people while secretly being in love with each other.
The chorus reads: “If I didn’t love you I’d be good by now / I’d be better than barely, getting by somehow / Yeah, it would be easy not to miss you. Wonder about who’s with you / Turn the want you off / Whenever I want to / If I didn’t love you, if I didn’t love you.”
In a recent interview, Jason opened up about collaborating with powerful women on songs.
“When you get on stage or in the studio and start trading vocals with them, it’s like, man, you realize really quick that who the better singer in the room is, you know what I mean?” he shared with Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country, via CMT.
Jason added, “Those guys are amazing singers and really powerful and just a lot of range. It’s really cool for me to get to work with people like that and sort of find my spot in the song to make my voice work with theirs and it’s been great.”
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Jason Aldean wears his cowboy hat while walking the carpet at the 2020 CMA Awards on Wednesday (November 11) at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tenn.
The 43-year-old singer opened the show by performing in a tribute to late singer Charlie Daniels, who died back in July.
Jimmie was joined on the carpet by his fiancee Alexis Gale. He was nominated for New Artist of the Year and he performed a tribute to legendary singer Charley Pride, who was presented with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dierks performed in the opening number with Jason.
Jon and his fiancee Summer Duncan walked the carpet together ahead of his tribute to the late Joe Diffie, who died in March from complications related to COVID-19.
Little Big Town performed a tribute to the late Kenny Rogers.
Chris, who was joined at the show by wife Lauren Bricken, performed his song “Be a Light” with Thomas Rhett and Reba McEntire.
Jake and his girlfriend Erica Hartlein walked the carpet together. He hosted the red carpet show and then presented during the main event.
FYI: Chris is wearing a Todd Snyder suit, an Eton shirt, and Paul Smith shoes.
The 42-year-old country singer stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday (December 12).
“It’s obviously something that I wouldn’t wish on anybody,” he told host Kelly Clarkson. “I think for us going back to Vegas was something we wanted to do the right way. We didn’t want to go in and try to do it too soon.”
“We felt like there was going to be a lot of people at our show that probably hadn’t been to one of our shows, maybe hadn’t been to a concert at all since that show,” he continued. “If they were going to come back out and that was part of the healing process for them.”
“We wanted to make it a safer environment, something to make them feel safer,” he added about his recent show. “We did Park MGM, a little 5,000 seat arena. The other one was outside, 30,000-40,000 people or whatever it was. This was a little smaller, little more intimate where people can come and hopefully, feel a little more at ease, hopefully, help some of them.”
“We had to get on stage the next week and try to get through all of it,” he recalled about continuing his tour after the shooting. “It was rough, the best thing for me was the fact that my wife was there and went through it, my band was there and went through it, my crew, everybody. We kind of leaned on each other and talked through it, nobody kept it bottled up. If you had a breakdown, you kind of had it in front of everybody and everybody knew what was going on.”
“My wife, we could talk and understood what was going on because she was there,” Jason Aldean shared. “To me that helped more than anything. We’re on the other side of it now. We’re part of the Route 91 family now, so it’s a cool group.”
Jason Aldean has made a triumphant return to Las Vegas.
The 42-year-old country entertainer kicked off his three-night Jason Aldean: Ride All Night Vegas engagement on Friday night (December 6) at Park Theater at Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada.
During his performance, Jason told the audience – which contained first responders and attendees from the 2017 show – “Tonight’s a really special night for us. We got a lot of people in the crowd who are family to us, so welcome everyone from Route 91… It’s our first show back and make no mistake about it… we came back to blow it out for you guys tonight…Let’s finish what we started, what y’all think?”
Jason Aldean is back with a new studio album called 9, and you can listen to it right here!
Upon its release, the latest record from the 42-year-old country singer-songwriter immediately launched to No. 1 on the iTunes Album Chart on Friday (November 22).
“In this day and age everybody is not cutting full-length albums anymore. It’s trending more towards these EPs and that’s just not the way I want to make music,” Jason told Billboard of the new album.
The album includes tracks like the lead single, “We Back.”
“I feel like we needed [more up] tempo just because the last couple of albums, I felt like things were a little more on the laid back side with songs like ‘Drowns The Whiskey,’ ‘Any Ol’ Barstool’ and ‘You Make It Easy’…the big up tempos are such a big part of my career and live shows, I just felt like it was time. We had a new album coming out and we needed to bring back some energy and I feel like that’s a good way to kick off an album.”
