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CMT on tour redux
FAIRBORN — When the CMT on Tour ‘08 show — featuring headliner Jason Aldean, the trio Lady Antebellum and newcomer Eric Durrance — rolled into Wright State University’s Ervin J. Nutter Center last week, representatives of the Country Music Television network stopped by as well.
More specifically, Lance Smith, host of the cable network’s “Top 20 Countdown” program, was in town shooting footage for this week’s show. According to the CMT Web site, the program (airing first at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17) invites viewers to “(t)une in and get the latest as (the concert) stars perform … and tailgate outside of their buses. Also, watch as Smith visits the sites in the area, including the US Air Force Museum and Carillon Historical Park.”
For those who missed it, below is the concert review that ran the next day in the Life section of the “Dayton Daily News’” print edition:
Hot ticket warms up a sparse crowd
Jason Aldean headlines Nutter show with Lady Antebellum and Eric Durrance.
FAIRBORN — The folks at Country Music Television (CMT) put together an undeniably hot ticket when they tapped hit-maker Jason Aldean to headline a tour bill that also features smokin’ trio Lady Antebellum and newcomer Eric Durrance.
What they apparently forgot to take into consideration — as far as the tour’s Friday night, Oct. 10, stop at Wright State University’s Ervin J. Nutter Center — is that a fall Friday night around these parts means high school football to a good portion of the show’s target audience.
Surely, that explains the Nutter Center’s relatively sparse crowd, since the show’s modestly priced tickets would normally invite a fuller arena.
But then, these aren’t normal times, as the opening song of Lady Antebellum’s 40-minute set seemed to refer — despite being written more than a year ago: “This world keeps spinning faster, into a new disaster …”
That’s for sure.
The crowd’s warm appreciation for Lady A turned to adulation when headliner Aldean took the stage.
An entertainer who combines the energy of rock with the real-life themes of country music, Aldean filled his show with musical variety.
Rough and rowdy tunes such as his mega-hit “Hicktown” which concluded the Georgia-native’s more than 60-minute set, hit their mark with the mostly young crowd.
But the ballad “Asphalt Cowboy,” the first of three encore tunes, had the crowd cheering the chorus as well.
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