After a gunman’s carefully planned assault on the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas occurred during Aldean’s headlining set, he and his team struggled to piece back together a plan for continuing in the public space following such a horrific tragedy. Though he was already a stalwart figure in Nashville’s popular country scene, late last year Jason Aldean became a household name for a reason completely unrelated to his musical prowess - domestic terrorism. It will highlight the great moments, and occasionally, dig deep into the bad ones, but the goal is always to bring more attention to a genre that is far too often swept under the rug due to class assumptions or music criticism’s clear rockist past. The purpose of this column will be to analyze and demystify country releases, large or small, and help halt the notion that Country music is somehow less deserving of introspective analysis than rock, rap, or pop. Country Grammar is a recurring monthly column about country music.
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