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"Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his eighth album Scarecrow. The song reached #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart [ 2 ] and #13 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
"Try That in a Small Town" is a song written by Kelley Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, and Kurt Allison, and recorded by American country music singer Jason Aldean. It was released to country radio in May 2023 as the lead single to Aldean's eleventh studio album Highway Desperado , released in November 2023.
On May 19, 2023, Aldean released "Try That in a Small Town" as the lead single from his eleventh album. [39] Its music video was released on July 14, generating controversy for invoking imagery related to the 2020 George Floyd protests while being filmed in front of the Maury County courthouse, the site of a 1946 race riot and a 1927 lynching ...
One high-level exec told me Aldean is irrelevant today — “a sideshow all the way”; others in town point out that radio stations still add his new singles (including “Try That in a Small ...
It's been one week since the country superstar's video was pulled from CMT amid accusations of racism, and the furor has hardly died down.
The lyrics describe a young man who decides to leave home because "the love that you need will never be found" there; the story in the song's music video is that he makes this decision after being gaybashed. "Smalltown Boy" is regarded as a gay anthem and is associated with the rise of British gay culture in the 1980s.
A version of "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" by Charlotte Martin can be found on her 2007 album Reproductions. Young@Heart Chorus, [14] whose singers range from ages 73 to 90, covered "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter of a Small Town" at their 4th Annual Mash-Up concert in November 2016.
Its lyrics tell of the life of Jackson's father, and how he was "raised on the ways and gentle kindness of a small town Southern man". Despite several similarities between his life and the song, Jackson said it wasn't a tribute to his father or a grandfather, although he did draw from his own ancestry as an inspiration.