In this week’s episode of The Ty Bentli Show on Apple Music Country, Jason Aldean talks about his upcoming ‘Back in the Saddle’ tour, adjusting to life back on the road after spending a year at home, picking his opening acts and reality TV show rumours. Listen to the full interview on Apple Music Country here.
Jason Aldean on getting back on stage:
“…it feels good. We had a couple shows at Bonnaroo Farm there in Manchester, Tennessee, and it was the first shows we had played in 14 months. I said in the beginning, it’s like man, as soon as they open the gates, we’re going to be the first one through. We’re going to be the first ones out there, ready to go play. And I mean, we knew August, that first weekend in August, that was our date and we had kind of earmarked. All these people have announced tours for September and October, and I’m sitting there licking my chops going, “We’re about to tell you that we’re going out in August,” and knowing that we were going to be one of the first ones back out there, man it’s just, it’s exciting. I mean, it’s been a long year for everybody. Us, fans. And it was really cool. I told my manager the other day, I was like… after the first show we did at Bonnaroo I was like, I haven’t had a feeling like that onstage in probably 15 years. Something that I think a lot of us artists kind of take for granted sometimes because we do it so much, you get that taken away from you for over a year, and just the feeling we had getting back onstage was pretty unbelievable.”
“I think over the years man, we’ve always just tried to figure out who we thought was going to be kind of the next big thing. When we signed Kane Brown the first year to go out with us, he didn’t really have any radio hits, but his streaming numbers were through the roof, and his social numbers and all that stuff. So we could see there was something with him that was about to pop, and it just hadn’t done it yet. And so we signed him, and then while he’s on tour with us, he starts blowing up. Same thing kind of happened with Luke Combs. And so Hardy was the guy that just had some really cool music and social numbers. He’s selling tickets to his own shows, so we felt like that was a good call. Lainey Wilson is a label mate of mine, of Broken Bow, and all of a sudden she’s starting to pop. She’s got a big hit out there right now, and she was one that’s getting hot right now, so we felt like that was a good call for her. And then Dee Jay Silver’s always out there with us.”
