{"product_id":"relentless","title":"Relentless","description":"Amazon.com\n\nOn his sophomore CD, Jason Aldean, the Academy of Country Music's Top New Male Vocalist for 2006, continues to rely on a proven formula--recording several John Rich co-writes, and reprising producer Michael Knox--while pushing harder on the rocking side of his Georgia roots. A platinum-seller his first time out, he stocks the new album with songs from reliable hitmakers (Brett James, Jim Collins, Tom Shapiro) to score at radio (watch for his duet with Miranda Lambert, \"Grown Woman\"), but also isn't afraid to get edgy (\"Back in This Cigarette,\" about an anguished breakup). A serviceable baritone, a hat act with pierced ears, Aldean relies on attitude when all else fails, and it works. \"Johnny Cash,\" his rocking ode to rebellion and rebirth, is the fastest-rising single of his career. --Alanna Nash\n\nProduct description\n\nCD\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nJason Aldean, Relentless\nLives and careers have tipping points, days when investments pay off and when a bunch of scattered puzzle pieces suddenly fit together. Jason Aldean doesn't have to think long when asked to call up his top game changing moment of 2006. \"We were playing a show in Portland, Oregon. It was a little club, just an acoustic show,\" says the Macon, Georgia native. \"`Hicktown' (Aldean's first single) had been doing okay. It was probably 25 on the chart or something. The club was basically sold out. And we went into `Hicktown,' and the place just went crazy.\" \"Hicktown,\" propelled by a spanking beat and a girls-gone-hillbilly-wild video, would go Top 10 before long, but that's the night it found its place in the full-roar, sing-along party that is Jason Aldean's groove. \"We couldn't even hear ourselves for people singing to us,\" he recalls. \"And that was the first time when I got the feeling that we had a hit. We had had pretty decent crowds at our shows, but it seems like from that show on things turned a corner. You get that kind of feedback and it hits you that you may end up having a career.\" A year after that show, the whole career thing looks better than ever. At a time when new artists in country have struggled to be heard, Aldean broke through a crowded field, capturing the Academy of Country Music Award for Top New Male Vocalist and earning a gold album just 12 weeks after his debut's release. Aldean followed up \"Hicktown\" with \"Why,\" a fist-to-the-heart ballad that rang the bell at No. 1 on radio and CMT. Now he's preparing to drop his second album, a collection of songs that sustain his emphasis on relatable, recognizable lyrics while pushing into new sonic territory. The standout tracks include a tight duet with fellow rising star Miranda Lambert on \"Grown Woman,\" the brooding \"Back In This Cigarette\" which almost screams to be made into a video, and the swampy groove of \"I Break Everything I Touch.\" The project narrowly dodged disaster when a fire at Nashville's Treasure Isle Studio very nearly destroyed the recordings during the final mastering stage. The project, titled Relentless after a particularly feverish cut on the disc, benefits he says from the track record he established with his debut. \"We were able to find great songs for the first album, but we had to dig a lot harder to get them,\" says Jason. \"And this album, it wasn't as hard. After a couple of hits, people are more willing to give you great songs. So we kind of had a whole new world open up to us with this, and we took advantage of it.\" Why has Aldean been able to connect with so many people so fast? His fans would probably say relatable songs, a powerful, dynamic voice, and total dedication to giving himself up for an audience. He's done it for years at a stretch across the Southeast, in bars and taverns and some places you'd best not even go. He's thrown down for 15 people in halls that could have held hundreds. And he's spent the last year proving he can connect from the biggest stages, the ones that they haul around in multiple semi-trailers. You get the sense that Aldean gets pumped up to sing live the way college quarterbacks fire up for games. The Tennessean called his music \"amped-up contemporary country, with Southern rock and honky-tonk influences.\" Aldean calls it \"aggressive country.\" So it's no surprise that behind his radio success is a desire to commune with his crowd, to make a party happen wherever he and his band go. He played some 200 dates last year, a hard pace, but one he's trained for. \"I was playing clubs when I was in high school,\" says Aldean. \"But it was one of those things where I don't know if people knew how serious I was. I don't even know if I knew how serious I was about it at the time.\" After high school, he put a band together and went out on the road. \"I actually had a chance to go to college and play baseball or go after a music career,\" he says. \"But I was in bars every night, having fun, playing music. At that point I threw everything I had into it.\" Those high school days were spent in Macon, Georgia, hometown of music legends\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B000PAU2VW\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B000PAU2VW.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Jason Aldean\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case will show wear, and may be in library packaging. 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