JASON ALDEAN

                                                               "That's What Tequila Does" 

                                                                Macon Music/Broken Bow Records

Jason Aldean is one of country music’s biggest male artists today, but a large part of that is because of his ability to find a comfort zone within his style from era to era, while continually elevating the unique attributes that he brings to the table.

That’s exactly what he’s done again with his new single “That’s What Tequila Does,” the follow-up to his 27^th #1 song “Trouble with A Heartbreak.”

The song, written by Kurt Allison, John Edwards, Tully Kennedy and John Morgan is lifted from the Macon half of his Macon, Georgia double album, and sees Aldean sitting in the familiar pocket that we’ve come to expect from his distinct sound as it pushes a pop laden backbeat into a slow groove that allows his voice to carry the lyric through the first verse as we see him choosing his drink of choice – tequila – even though he knows it’ll ultimately destroy him in his attempt to get over the memory of lost love.

Knowingly, he sings in the opening verse of how drinking tequila will always get him overthinking and stirring up every memory she’s left him to deal with, while during the second verse he shows how having a little more than just enough will always get him checking his phone and looking for a text from her that never comes in.

The chorus punches the energy level up a notch as is par for the course with Aldean’s latest material, but his vocal is perfectly suited for carrying the pain and emotional hit of confusion that has come amid his drinking as we experience while he runs through a list that admits all the different ways that tequila has made his thinking a little warped:

“It'll make you think that you got a shot at the one that got away when it goes down

She's gonna tell you, she's gonna come back and that's what makes you stay for another round

Keep you stickin' around, keep pourin' out

Until she's all you're thinkin' 'bout

It'll keep you hung up, keep you drunk on what it was

Man, that's what tequila does”

Though drinking away heartache is certainly nothing new to country music, by shifting the focus of the lyrics to show how it can torture you and trick you into thinking in different and dangerous ways, Aldean provides a fresh perspective to the old idea.

Any song released right now from Jason Aldean is obviously going to have an immediate impact at country radio, but the overall feel of this song also tells us that it will make a great addition to his setlists, making it one of the highlights night in and night out on his upcoming Rock N’ Roll Cowboy Tour.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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