SHERYL CROW COMES AFTER JASON ALDEAN OVER "TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN"

It's been a week for Jason Aldean. His song "Try That In A Small Town" has been on the country charts for several weeks, but the video for the track just debuted on CMT last Friday. After airing through the weekend, CMT pulled the video from rotation Monday. Fans of the singer - and fans of the song's message - were fuming. Jason jumped on social media to clarify the meaning of the song. It had been out for several weeks, so why the sudden controversy? It's not the song itself, but the video. 

CMT has verified the video was pulled, but hasn't given an explanation. Reports are the network doesn't have a problem with the song - but where the video was filmed. The video shows Jason and his band performing the tune on the front steps the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee - a site known for the 1927 mob lynching of Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man. 

Sheryl Crow waded into the conversation on Twitter, saying "Jason Aldean, I'm from a small town. Even people in small towns are sick of violence. There’s nothing small-town or American about promoting violence. You should know that better than anyone having survived a mass shooting. This is not American or small town-like. It’s just lame. The mass shooting Crow is referring to is the Las Vegas Route 91 shooting in 2017 where a shooter fired into a crowd of concert-goers, killing 60 and wounding 400. Aldean was on-stage at the time of the incident. 

Want more Aldean news? Of course you do. Check out more on the brewing controversy here. 

Source: Deadline