{"id":39913,"date":"2024-07-08T04:15:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=39913"},"modified":"2024-07-08T04:15:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T08:15:32","slug":"jason-aldean-had-to-be-convinced-to-release-big-green-tractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/jason-aldean-had-to-be-convinced-to-release-big-green-tractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean Had To Be Convinced To Release &#8220;Big Green Tractor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a new interview on\u00a0<em>Taste of Country Nights with Evan Paul<\/em>,\u00a0<strong>Jason Aldean<\/strong>\u00a0reveals that one of his biggest hits almost didn\u2019t see the light of day. When Aldean was asked if he had a hit song that he didn\u2019t initially think would be a hit at all, the country star wasted little time in responding, \u201cBig Green Tractor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song would, at the time, become Aldean\u2019s third career number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in September of 2009. &#8220;I mean I thought the song was cool, ya know, and I cut it,\u201d Aldean recalls. \u201cBut I never&#8230;to this day, that song was No. 1 for four weeks, and I&#8217;ve never had another song stay for four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Knox, my producer, was the one that sort of talked me into it. He was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m telling ya man, there&#8217;s something about this song.&#8217; But once the album came out, people were kind of gravitating towards it and stuff, and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Really?! That one?'&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/jason-aldean-talked-into-releasing-biggest-hit-ever-exclusive-interview\/\">Taste of Country<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 16:48:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/jason-aldean-had-to-be-convinced-to-release-big-green-tractor\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39914,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913\/revisions\/39914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}