Randy Travis supports Jason Aldean through 'Try That in a Small Town' backlash
03.08.2023 - 20:27
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Jason Aldean is still facing backlash for his "Try That in a Small Town" music video, but now he has a country music legend firmly in his corner. Randy Travis and his wife, Mary, spoke to Fox News Digital ahead of a "Heroes and Friends" tribute concert in his honor scheduled for Oct.
24. During the conversation, they touched on the song that's currently at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and expressed that despite some people having issues with Aldean's message, they fully agree with it.
Mary, who speaks for Randy after the singer suffered a major stroke in 2013 and now has limited speech, said, "You know, when we heard the song, when we saw the video, our first inclination was, we live in a small town. We feel the same way.
And we want the world to feel that way because we really do want to protect our country." Randy nodded in agreement as she added, "There's some things that have gotten sideways … and it's not racial, and it's not any of those things. It's just where we want to be as a country and the things that established our country.
Why is it so hard to believe that we're going to protect our own? I mean, that's what we do with our armed forces.That's what we do with our family. If somebody storms in your front door and threatens your wife or your children, what do you do?" She argued, with Randy nodding and saying, "Yeah," in support, that the footage in Aldean's video came from media outlets covering actual current events, "So, it didn't strike us as anything that he was highlighting any more than what news media did." She also noted the issue that people have been taking with the courthouse featured in the video – it was the site of a lynching in 1927, but Aldean's wasn't the only project to feature that
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