Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Why country music singer Jason Aldean has friends in low places

The singer, who is a January 6 conspiracy theorist and an election denier, claims to have been unaware that the video for his hit single Try That in a Small Town was shot at the site of one of the nation’s worst race-violence atrocities

US country music singer Jason Aldean denies that his song Try That in a Small Town has any racial undercurrents and claims he was unaware of the bloody history of the location depicted in the song’s video. Picture: Amy Harris/Invision/AP