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Near the pinnacle of modern music, Jason Aldean's repertoire is so unfairly glazed over in this overly pretentious board as to make me sick, but to make such beautiful, inspiring works into mere political statements (though that they are, in part) would be to reduce one of the most amazing careers in music ever to nothing more than that of a typical "whiskey sippin' redneck", and that treatment may be a fate even worse than public ignorance.

The works on display in Old Boots, New Dirt are titanic. "Just Gettin' Started" opens the set, and immediately, it is revealed that there is such a thing as a populist minimalist. But that is the name of the game for Aldean - a shatterer of preconceived notions, and one of the very few in the avant-garde to make John fucking Cage seem conservative by comparison. I could go on for days about how "If My Truck Could Talk," though the worst of the set, far outstrips the careers of most modern composers entirely; how "Miss That Girl" is a more "classical" approach for Aldean, and it succeeds endlessly; how the three highly political deluxe edition bonus tracks could easily be called the greatest triptych ever conceived in music; and how the chorus of "Tonight Looks Good On You" separates the most impactful bars of music I've yet heard.

But I won't.