{"id":1313654,"date":"2019-08-17T09:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1810595"},"modified":"2019-08-17T09:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:01:08","slug":"cmt-hot-20-decade-dirt-road-anthem-jason-aldean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/cmt-hot-20-decade-dirt-road-anthem-jason-aldean\/","title":{"rendered":"CMT Hot 20 Decade: \u201cDirt Road Anthem,\u201d Jason Aldean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> 2h ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a> takes a look back on 10 years of incredible music with Decade, a weekly segment that features a modern country classic that made its greatest impact between 2010 and 2019. This week, Jason Aldean<\/a> talks about his 2011 single, \u201cDirt Road Anthem.\u201d Here\u2019s Aldean, in his own words:<\/em><\/p>\n

The first time I heard \u201cDirt Road Anthem,\u201d I had Colt Ford out on tour with me and Colt was playing it in his show. I thought it was cool and it was different \u2014 and it was kind of an underground hit for him. Brantley had actually recorded it but Colt was playing it in his show every night and it was going over huge when we would play places especially down in the South, in Georgia. \u2026<\/p>\n

I never really thought much about recording the song and it wasn\u2019t until my producer, Michael Knox, brought the idea up to me of, \u201cHey, man, we should look at this thing. It\u2019s kinda cool,\u201d and my first thought was, \u201cI need to call Colt and see if this is cool with him if I cut this song.\u201d To me, that was their song. I didn\u2019t want to look like I was trying to go and jack a song from \u2018em or something.<\/p>\n

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