CRS In Action: Jason Aldean Keynotes

Jason Aldean

The COUNTRY RADIO SEMINAR (CRS) keynote interview with BROKEN BOW RECORDS’ JASON ALDEAN took place today (2/15) at the OMNI HOTEL in NASHVILLE. ALDEAN sat down with SUMMIT MEDIA/WICHITA VP/GM BEVERLEE BRANNIGAN and COUNTRY RADIO BROADCASTERS INC. Exec. Dir. RJ CURTIS to discuss how he has overcome adversity to become the Country artist he is today.

While he’s faced many challenges throughout his career, ALDEAN shared an intimate moment with attendees as he opened up about his most recent test -- being mid-performance as the deadliest shooting in U.S. history broke out at the ROUTE 91 HARVEST FESTIVAL in LAS VEGAS in 2017.

“I didn't know what was going on,” he recalled about that day. “Being onstage, I knew I could hear something that sounded weird, sounded off -- it wasn’t like anything I’d ever heard before. I turned around, and there were people running all over the stage. I was confused. Once I could get over to the side of the stage and learned what was going on, it turned into panic. If there’s one word I could sum it up with, it would be ‘chaos,’ for sure.”

ALDEAN talked about the struggles he went through personally while recovering from the events in LAS VEGAS, and shared that the most therapeutic thing for him and his band of 20 years was to perform together on “SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE” only six days after the shooting. “For us as a band, and as a road family, I think that was important. It was the first time we got onstage. Getting onstage and getting a reaction from [the audience] I think really changed the way we looked at it,” shared ALDEAN. “It made us realize there’s still way more good people out there in the world than there are bad, and this one guy who who had done this insanely disgusting thing was not going to scare us [away] from doing what we wanted to do.”

To wrap up, CURTIS asked ALDEAN what advice he would give his younger self, and the Country star replied, “I would probably tell him he’s in for one hell of a ride, and it’s not going to be a smooth one. But at the end of the day, it’s going to be a great one. I wouldn’t change a thing.”

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