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MUSIC PEOPLE
NEWS
SEPTEMBER 2023 Volume 54 Number 9 Issue 643
Editor Duncan Warwick
Contributors David Allan , Janet Aspley , Donnie Ayers , Craig Baguley , Tony Byworth , Larry Delaney , Don Cusic , Julie Flaskett , Michael Hingston , Stan Hitchcock , Tony Ives , Sianna King , Spencer Leigh , John Lomax III , Bryce Martin , Adrian Peel , Paul Riley , Alex Rossi , Chris Smith , Tom Travis , Walt Trott , Jack Watkins New release consultant : Steve Tidbury
Assistant editor Kelly Gregory
Photographers Patricia Presley , Barry Dixon
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A s the controversial Try That In A
Small Town gave Jason Aldean his first all-genre number one , its descent back down the charts was rapid . As we reported last month , the song was accused of being a “ call to racist vigilantism ” and its video , although now re-edited , was pulled from CMT ( but remained available on YouTube ).
Aldean defended the song ( which he didn ’ t write ) as a nod to old fashioned neighbourly values and denied that it is “ pro-lynching ”, but the furore surrounding the song mostly proved the old adage that no publicity is bad publicity as it went from what are described as “ minimal numbers ” to 31 million streams and sales of 175,000 almost overnight .
Now , cultures are once again clashing
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