Jason Aldean connects 'Small Town' message to Boston's resilience after marathon bombings
foxnews.comWhile performing in Massachusetts this weekend, Jason Aldean took a moment to reflect on the backlash surrounding his song "Try That In A Small Town." "We thought it was a really cool song.The message that we wanted to get out there has completely gotten overshadowed by all the bulls---," Aldean told the crowd in a Boston suburb. "I was laying in bed last night and I'm thinking to myself, you guys did this better than anybody, right?
Because I remember a time, I think it was April of 2013, when the Boston Marathon bombings happened. You guys remember this, right?
What I saw when that happened was a whole, not a small town – a big-a-- town – come together. No matter of your color, no matter anything," he said to a lively audience at the Xfinity Center in a fan-recorded video. "The whole country, especially Boston, came together to find these two p----- that did that, right?
And anybody of you guys that would’ve found those guys before the cops did, I know you guys from Boston, and you guys would’ve beat the s--- out of [them]," he added, of imprisoned Dzhokhar A.Tsarnaev and his deceased brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both responsible for the act of terrorism. "I've been trying to say this," he circled back to his song. "This is not about race.
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