It’s OK to re-approach material and try to make it better, but in order to do that you actually have to make it better.
However, having potential and a strong fan base is not excuse enough to fall short like his third album does. The only track on this project that really stands out is it’s title track “Wide Open”, which probably should be the center of attention for the project.Īldean is a great artist with great potential.
All this is nice and all, but even here there isn’t much variety as to how much we actually get to learn about Aldean from his music. He also includes tracks like “Fast” and “On My Highway” to explore his life even more. Despite it’s cliche message, “Crazy Town” is reminiscent to his struggle in Nashville and songs like “Love Was Easy” and “Keep The Girl” or even “Don’t Give Up On Me” follow his relationship with his wife and career intertwining. A lot of this material is personal to him, at least the lyrics say so. There is some respect that should be paid to Aldean though. Even “She’s Country” follows a familiar line of “country girl” songs like “Redneck Woman”, the only difference is it’s a guy singing it. Even “Crazy Town” follows a similar concept to Aldean’s own “Use What I Got” from his previous album Relentless. “Big Green Tractors” covers a classic country cliche made popular in Kenny Chesney’s famed “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy” while “Don’t Give Up On Me” also covers the popular concept of realizing one’s issues and thanking the one who helps you through them. In fact “This I Gotta See” was once the title track for an Andy Griggs album and “The Truth” covers the exact same line that Chris Cagle’s “Anywhere But Here” traveled a couple years ago. Instead, much of the album lacks that “new” feeling to it to help it gain much ground. Probably the biggest blunder in this case it the album’s tendency to reuse material that, in other situations, would have probably come of as respectable stand out tracks. That being said, the rest of this project is just as typical, maybe not so much from Aldean himself, but from and overall standpoint. However, with a hard rocking performance song being the introduction to the project it should have been expected that this album would follow a very familiar pattern, considering that Aldean likes to introduce his albums to radio with songs of such caliber. The fact of the matter is that, like his debut album which was much more subtle, Wide Open is filled with carbon copy tracks that have all been done before by both Aldean and other artists, almost to a T.Īldean’s first single from the project is “She’s Country”, which I will be the first to admit grows on you very fast and actually has the potential to get stuck in your head for a while. Aldean’s newest project, despite it being another collaboration between him and producer Michael Knox who spearheaded the two previous projects, fails to deliver anything really new for both Jason and country music as a whole. Unfortunately his third album, Wide Open, probably won’t help him reach that higher level of popularity and success anytime soon. Jason Aldean, the cornerstone of the Broken Bow label, has been a middle of the road star for the entirety of his career, hitting just enough fame to be considered among the likes of Blake Shelton and Craig Morgan, but far from enough to contend with their superiors.
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