Congratulations to the Fan of the Month for May – Kelynn. Learn more about Kelynn below.

Where are you from? Huntington Beach, CA

What was the first Jason Aldean song you heard? Hicktown

How many years have you been a Jason Aldean fan? I have been a Jason Aldean for about 14 years now (since I was 10!)

How many Jason Aldean shows have you been to? I have been to 5 Jason Aldean shows, there was supposed to be a 6th last year but it got cancelled due to the tragedy at the Route 91 festival.

What is the farthest you have travelled for a Jason Aldean concert? It was about a 4 hour drive (for Stagecoach).

What’s one thing that sets you apart from other Jason Aldean fans? No matter how many bad days I have, what kind of mood I am in, any song of his cheers me up and puts me in the best mood. Him and his music have helped me get through the darkest times in my life, and I will forever be thankful for that. I look forward to seeing him anytime and every time he comes to Southern California for a concert, and have turned all of my friends and family into Jason Aldean fans because I have his music on everywhere I go.

Tell us your favorite Jason Aldean related story: The first line dance I ever learned was to Hicktown, and it is still my favorite dance to do. The last Jason Aldean concert I went to, I started to do the line dance to Hicktown and ended getting quite a few in my section to do it with me and it is one of my favorite memories ever. I have never been close enough to make eye contact with him or won a meet and greet, but the whole atmosphere of his concerts make it so fun and enjoyable!

Congratulations go out to Kelynn, she will be receiving a Jason Aldean prize pack!

Your Meet & Greet instructions will be available for you to pick up at the Will Call area of the venue on the day of the show beginning at 4:30pm (approximately one hour before doors open). Please plan to pick up your instructions before 6:00pm.

You will follow the directions to meet a member of our tour staff at the designated location in your instructions who will verify your valid ID and then give you your Meet & Greet pass (one pass only, no additional guests).

You will then be escorted to a security checkpoint that will include wanding or metal detection and a bag search before the Meet & Greet. No cameras, phones, purses, or bags of any kind will be allowed in the Meet & Greet. Your belongings will be held securely by venue security during this time.

If you have any questions or will no longer be able to attend, please contact us at JasonAldean@support.sparkart.com. If you fail to show up without prior notice, you will be ineligible to attend Meet & Greets for the rest of the fan club year and may be disqualified from future fan club opportunities & events.

Jason’s album, REARVIEW TOWN, reached #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart this week, selling 183,000 equivalent units in its first week of release. Jason is now the second Country act in history to score four consecutive chart-toppers.

As he “savors his ACM Entertainer of the Year hat trick” (Hits Daily Double), fans and critics rally behind REARVIEW TOWN for its “relatable premise” (Huffington Post).

“It’s utterly serious in tone, as if enjoying weekend downtime to the fullest – in an almost nihilistic fashion – is a moral obligation, and it’s another fine example of the empathetic approach Aldean has taken toward working-class life and Middle America.” – Rolling Stone

“The record is full of the same swaggering, emotion-driven country rock that earned him a spot as one of the top live performers in the current Country landscape.” – UPROXX

“…it often feels as though Aldean is reaching for very common comforts to get his way through very specific pain. And this is, of course, Country music’s great power.” – The Atlantic

“The album is a straight-up shot of what has kept Aldean fans rocking through his previous seven studio albums – high-octane songs ready-made for his arena and stadium shows.” – PEOPLE

“Surprising fans for almost a decade after his genre-bending breakthrough smash ‘She’s Country,’ Aldean still revels in surprising fans and pushing the boundaries of Country music.” – USA Today

“Twelve years after Aldean helped recenter the genre, these sounds aren’t novel in country music. This is Aldean’s world; he inhabits it more convincingly than most.” – Paste

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This morning, Jason performed “Rearview Town” and “You Make It Easy” on the Today Show. Re-watch his performances below.

Last night, Jason performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Re-watch his performance below.

Tune in to The Ellen Show today to see Jason perform “You Make It Easy” and talk with Ellen about his new album, REARVIEW TOWN.

Jason’s new album, REARVIEW TOWN, is available now! Click below to buy the album at your favorite digital retailer, or stream on your preferred premium music streaming service, including Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Music, Pandora, or Tidal.

Jason is set to make multiple national television appearances this week for the release of his new album, REARVIEW TOWN.

“I didn’t want a lay-up. I wanted a slam dunk,” says Jason Aldean, discussing his hard-charging and ferociously confident eighth studio album, Rearview Town, out April 13.

His most recent collection, 2016’s They Don’t Know, bowed at No.1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums charts, and Aldean has his sights set for Rearview Town: “We’ve always been a little bit different than everybody else,” he says. “In the early days, with songs like ‘She’s Country’ or ‘Dirt Road Anthem,’ we were really rolling the dice — that’s how I made my mark, by not being scared to go out and shake things up.”

The risks and their rewards electrify the 15 new cuts, snaking between stadium-sized guitar anthems (“Dirt to Dust,” “Up in Smoke”), heartfelt country minimalism (“Drown the Whiskey,” “Better At Being Who I Am”) and hip-hop swagger (“Like You Were Mine”).

Occasionally, like on the enthusiastically-received lead single, “You Make It Easy,” currently at No.10 and still climbing on the radio charts, Aldean even finds himself channeling the blues. “It’s rare for me to hear a song and get really excited about it,” he says of the tune. “But this one was immediate.”

A native of Macon, Georgia, such grooves are familiar to the star. “I was playing all types of music, naturally,” he recalls of formative bar gigs. “I played Otis Redding. I played the Allman Brothers. I played Stevie Ray Vaughn — and then I turned around and played Alabama. What’s cool about [“You Make It Easy”] is that it allowed me to show that side of my music and that part of the influence for me.”

Long a maestro of up-tempo stompers, Aldean kicks Rearview Town off with “Dirt to Dust” and “Set It Off,” an epic one-two punch of dirty guitars and undeniable hooks. With razor-sharp production, both songs flat out cook. Speaking about “Set It Off,” specifically, Aldean says that the quirky bassline has him chomping at the bit to bring the cut out live. “It’s got this really weird beat. You don’t know what’s about to happen,” he admits. “That takes it through the roof.”

He heads for traditional country on the standout lost love lament “Drowns the Whiskey.” Featuring Miranda Lambert, the track is remarkably understated in its arrangement, but it’s saturated in well-worn emotions. “Miranda is a great singer,” Aldean says of the welcome team-up. “She does a couple takes and she knocks it out … I was blown away.”

On “Better At Being Who I Am” Aldean lends a nuanced, knowing delivery to the breakup tale. “I think [this] might be the most well-written song that I’ve ever recorded,” says the singer.

He adds that he found himself attracted to the emotional maturity. “At this point, I want to record songs that have some substance to them,” he says. “There are songs that I cut when I was 27 or 28 that I wouldn’t cut now. [And] there are songs that I cut now that wouldn’t make sense for me to cut when I was 27 or 28. I’m more conscious of those things these days.”

The driving title track strikes a note that’s both hopeful and forlorn, a combination that felt particularly familiar to Aldean. “It’s about putting things behind you, things that have held you down, and looking ahead,” he says. “When you look at me and my career and a lot of the personal stuff I’ve [gone through], it really seemed like a fitting title.”

But for all its sonic meanderings, Rearview Town feels indelibly cohesive. Aldean says it’s his lifelong love of country — country music and country life – that ties it all together. “Country is the core of where we’re at.” That surefootedness has helped define the genre’s 21st century. He says: “I’m rock-infused country. It’s not George Strait’s country and it’s not Merle Haggard’s country, but it is country.”

While the album was largely completed prior to Aldean’s headlining set at the Route 91 Harvest Festival last fall in Las Vegas, the two-time Entertainer of the Year knows that the tragedy precedes this release as well as the launch of his upcoming tour, the High Noon Neon Tour, kicking off May 10 in Kansas City, Missouri. But after a break that saw the birth of his son, Aldean is more attached to the road than ever.

He says, “We all realized that this is what we do. The time off was something we all needed, from me to the band and crew and all of our families; our wives. [But] I love what I do. I’ve been doing this since I was 14.”

So when the stage lights go up, they do so on a band with a new perspective. “You appreciate every day that you get to play and the guys you get to play it with. You look around and see all of your bandmates and everybody up there with you — that could have very well not have been the case.”

Which may play into why at 19 No.1 country songs, two Entertainer of the Year awards, and more than just a few sold-out stadium shows under his belt, Aldean still has a fire. “I never wanted to be a flash in the pan,” he explains. “I never wanted to be somebody people forget about five years after I quit playing music. I want people to be jamming to my stuff 20, 30, 40 years from now.”

With a laugh, he adds, “So we’ve had 19 No.1’s — that’s cool. But 20 sounds a lot cooler. And 30 sounds a lot better than that.”

Submit your questions now and tune in Friday to see Jason talk about his new album REARVIEW TOWN and answer fan questions.