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Jason Aldean "My Kinda Party" album

- Release date : November 2010 -

My Kinda Party is the title of the fourth studio album released by American country music artist Jason Aldean. It was released on November 2, 2010 on Broken Bow Records.

Aldean said that he chose the name of the album because he thought it was representative of "what my fans have come to expect." He also said that it has a unique sound because he recorded it with his touring band and an engineer who does not work with any other artists.

The first single from My Kinda Party is the title track, which debuted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart at #41. The song has become Aldean's eleventh Top 20 hit on that chart. The song also debuted at #54 on the Hot 100 chart. "My Kinda Party" was written and originally recorded by southern rock singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert for his 2009 album Modern Day Prodigal Son.

This album also contains the southern rap-inclined "Dirt Road Anthem", which was previously recorded separately by both of its writers, Brantley Gilbert and country rapper Colt Ford. According to The Boot, Aldean's publicist teased about this song, suggesting Aldean listened to "a little Snoop Dogg in his time"; regarding the song, Aldean said that he did not consider "Dirt Road Anthem" a rap song.

The album also includes a duet with Kelly Clarkson called "Don't You Wanna Stay".

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"My Kinda Party" album reviews

With his fourth album, "My Kinda Party," Jason Aldean stands at the forefront of a movement combining country themes with hard-rock chords. This time, he branches out into country rap, too, on a cover of "Dirt Road Anthem," previously recorded by co-writers Colt Ford and Brantley Gilbert.

To balance his rocking sound, Aldean ties his songs to country music with stories about Southern boys making noise to blow off steam. A rare platinum-selling country act on an independent label, Aldean may rap about "swervin' like I'm George Jones," but his 21st-century version of country music takes its sonic cues from rock acts like Nickelback and its rap flow from Uncle Kracker. Aldean realizes that, in the modern South, blue-collar kids are as likely to party to Jay-Z and Metallica as they are to Hank Williams Jr. and Brad Paisley.

More than ever, Aldean succeeds at bringing alive a demographic rarely seen or heard in the media — and he does so with a fresh sound that steers clear of lyrical clichés.

*** by Michael McCall, The Associated Press ***

Georgia-born country star Jason Aldean may never do another song as weird as "Dirt Road Anthem," the redneck rap song that is the high point of his fourth disc, "My Kinda Party." A cover of a track popularized by country singer-rapper Colt Ford, it's a standard-issue ode to George Jones and back roads, beer and biscuits made deliriously novel by Aldean's delivery, which falls somewhere in between beatnik spoken word and Kid Rock.

A rock-and-roll-influenced hat act with blue-collar inclinations, Aldean must have figured that one boundary-stretching moment was enough, because the rest of "Party" is likable but Nashville boilerplate. Every other track will sound familiar, even if it's the first time you've heard it.

There are manly love songs (like the mid-tempo "Heartache That Don't Stop Hurting," stopped from being a full-fledge weeper only by Aldean's limited range). There's a superstar duet (the great and gooey Kelly Clarkson collaboration "Don't You Wanna Stay," which sounds like Bryan Adams teaming with Heart in 1984 for a contribution to some alternate universe "Footloose" soundtrack. It's that good).

There are Toby Keith-style odes to patriotism (like "Fly Over States," which is milder than it could have been, again thanks to Aldean's limited range) and a grouping of formulaic "I like beer and pickup trucks, just in case you were wondering" anthems like "Country Boy's World" and "My Kinda Party" that deliver pretty much what they advertise.

*** by Allison Stewart, The Washington Post ***