Jason Aldean and Thirty Plus Number Ones :: Ep 102 Try That in a Small Town Podcast

Try That in a Small Town Podcast · Mar 30, 2026 · 1h 25m

Thirty number ones sounds like a headline. It feels a lot stranger when you’re sitting in a room full of your friends and heroes, watching them sing your songs while your own band plays behind them and you didn’t even know a party was happening.

We’re hanging with Jason Aldean and reliving the night they surprised him with a 30 No. 1 celebration, from the writers who’ve been on every album to the surreal moment of hearing another voice in his in-ears. We talk about what changes as a career stretches into decades, why some “hits” don’t age well, and how we try to keep the music believable as…