Jason will be taking the stage with Bryan Adams for a brand new CMT Crossroads! The show will air on June 26th, CLICK HERE for more information!

Country music fan favorite Jason Aldean will once again host his annual Jason Aldean: Concert For The Cure during CMA Music Festival at the Wildhorse Saloon to benefit Susan G. Komen For The Cure.  Following his stadium performance, Aldean will invite a few special guests to join him for a late night concert that will also feature a silent auction with items from some of country music’s biggest stars.  Fellow Georgia-native Luke Bryan is the first guest performer to be added to the lineup.

Breast cancer touched Aldean personally when a close family friend passed away from the disease at only 26 years old.  Since that tragic loss, Aldean has been committed to lending his celebrity in the search for a cure.  

“I know a lot of fans heard my friend Melissa’s story in the album special that GAC did,” says Aldean.  “That two minute clip barely touch on how passionate I feel about this.  I promise to make it the most rocking late night gig in downtown Nashville that night, and I hope people will come out to support this cause and help me remember Melissa.”

Tickets range from $25 to $100 and are available to fan club members this week and to the public beginning May 2 through www.jasonaldean.com and ticketmaster.  A limited number of VIP Packages including tickets in the exclusive VIP lounge and meet & greet passes will also be available. 

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure®, we have invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.

All Meet & Greets have been cancelled for Jason’s shows through May 17th.  We will be happy to honor any Aldean Army winners’ requests at a later date if one comes up on the schedule that they would like to attend.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams will join Jason Aldean for a new episode of CMT Crossroads scheduled to premiere June 26. The show will be taped before an invitation-only audience in Nashville on May 5th. A singer-songwriter who still tours more than 150 days annually, Adams is best known for hits such as “Summer of ’69,” “Run to You,” “18 ‘Til I Die,” “It’s Only Love,” “Somebody,” “The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You.” He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been inducted into the Canadian Juno Hall of Fame and Canada’s Walkway of Stars. After selling more than 2 million copies of his first two albums, Aldean recently released Wide Open, which sold more than 100,000 during its first week of release. His string of hits includes “Hicktown,” “Why,” “Amarillo Sky,” “Johnny Cash,” “Laughed Until We Cried” and his current single, “She’s Country.”

The winners will be drawn on May 4, 2009 & will be notified the same afternoon.  Aldean Army members can  CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

Here’s a look at the schedule for Jason’s CMT Power Picks next week: 

Monday: Jason vs. Caitlin & Will
Wednesday: Jason vs. Carter Twins

Be sure to VOTE for Jason!

CMT Power Picks puts the hottest videos against each other, and your votes decide which gets played and which goes away. Contenders are announced online and on-air.  During the show, you vote on CMT.com, watch as the biggest videos battle for play, then enjoy the winner! CMT Power Picks airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET.

Jason’s current chart-topper “She’s Country” has been certified GOLD by the RIAA for having sold more than 500,000 digital downloads. During couch time on the The Bonnie Hunt Show last Thursday, Hunt surprised Aldean with a plaque commemorating the rare milestone before his performance of the smash hit.

“She’s Country” is also spending its second week at the top of the country chart, making the multi-week #1 Aldean’s first.  The anthem has been the fastest rising of his career to date and over the last few months it has been the most streamed country song on myspace, one of the most downloaded country songs of the year and the #1 ringtone in all genres.

IMPORTANT RE-SCHEDULING: Due to weather, tickets originally bought for the May 7th at National Harbor will be honored on the new re-scheduled August 8th date.  Refunds must be made by May 31st.

A few lucky Aldean Army members got to experience the CMT Crossroad taping firsthand, but here’s what Bryan wrote in his tour diary about his night with Jason:

That’s Jason Aldean in the hat.  I figure I’m an honorary hillbilly, I sang about a tractor tonight.

Here’s me and Jason Aldean, the number one country singer in America this week, together we did CMT crossroads, which is a TV show taped in Nashville.  IT was a blast, i sang harmonies, worked on my twang and jammed some fine ol’ country toons with the man here. Gary played piano, and the songs we cut of his were “She’s Country”, “Amarillo Sky”, “Why” and “Johnny Cash”. Of mine we sang “The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You”, “Summer of ’69”, “Back To You”, “Cuts Like A Knife” and “Heaven”.

Show airs sometime at the end of June. The hair is getting long on top, i think i need a cowboy hat. Jason says he’s gonna send me one, as his head is as big as mine.  Back on tour starting today, hello U S of A!

Check out the CONTEST PAGE to enter for 2009 CMA Music Fest Ticket Giveaways! Aldean Army members can enter to win a Family 4-pack that includes tickets to the full festival and a Flipcam. There is also a public giveaway that includes 2 tickets to the June 12 performance on the VAULT™ Concert Stage at LP Field!

Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean and Dierks Bentley have been added to the performance lineup for the 2009 CMT Music Awards premiering June 16 on CMT and CMT.com. As previously announced, the show will also include performances by Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Def Leppard.

Get more details HERE!

Following on the heels of his multi-week No. one and GOLD certified smash “She’s Country,” country rocker Jason Aldean is releasing his second single “Big Green Tractor” to radio on May 26.

“There’s nothin’ more romantic than a tractor,” laughs Aldean.  “If you live in South Georgia, a Saturday night out on the tractor with your girl is probably not that far-fetched of what could be considered a good ‘date night.’  The song seems to be connecting already, so maybe tractors have always been romantic, and everybody just needed reminding.”

The laid-back country groove of “Big Green Tractor” was hailed “the best love song on WIDE OPEN” by The New York Times and has been the most buzzed about song at radio and in print since the album’s release.

“This might be the most-mass appeal song of Jason’s already white-hot career, pretty much a right-down-the-middle smash.  You start singing along immediately.”  Gregg Swedberg, Program Director/KEEY-Minneapolis

“Even ballads like “Fast” and “Big Green Tractor” pack more punch than most mainstream hits, their harmonics hinting at those of the ’70s installments of the Allman Brothers and the Charlie Daniels Band.”  Washington Post

Global mega-platinum-selling singer-songwriter Bryan Adams will share the stage  with platinum selling and chart topping country rocker, Jason Aldean, when  the pair team up for the latest episode of CMT CROSSROADS.  CMT CROSSROADS:  BRYAN ADAMS AND JASON ALDEAN was taped before an invitation-only audience in Nashville the beginning of May and premieres  Friday, June 26 at 9:00 p.m., ET/PT on CMT.

Bryan Adams is one of the world’s most  highly acclaimed musicians whose career has spanned more than three  decades.  Constantly in demand, the celebrated rocker is on the road  over 150 days a year playing rock n’ roll favorites (“Summer of 69,” “Run  To You,” “18 ‘Til I Die”, “It’s Only Love,” “Somebody,” “The Only Thing  That Looks Good On Me Is You”) to sold out audiences on six continents.   He continues to push those boundaries, becoming the first westerner  to play in both  Pakistan  and  Vietnam .  He has achieved No. 1 status in over 40 countries.  Holder of the record for  the longest running No. 1 hit in the history of the British charts  (16 weeks), Adams’ has had four No. 1 singles as well as racked up an  impressive array of Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, a Grammy Award,  American Music Awards, Juno Awards and ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards.  He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has been  inducted into both the Canadian Juno Hall of Fame as well as Canada ’s  Walkway of Stars.  Adams  is also an acclaimed photographer with  three books to his credit.  All fees from his photographic projects  are donated to his namesake foundation that funds projects supporting the victims of wars and natural disasters and other disadvantaged individuals  and organizations.

After selling two million copies of his first two  albums, topping the charts with six consecutive smash hits (including  “Hicktown,” “Why,” “Amarillo Sky,” “Johnny Cash,” and “Laughed Until We  Cried,”, racking up industry awards and touring with country music’s  biggest superstars,  Jason Aldean is  running full throttle with the release of his third album Wide  Open.  The Georgia native turned heads with a huge opening week  for the new disc, selling over 100,000 copies to debut at No. 2 on the  Billboard Country Albums

chart and No. 4 on the all -genre  Billboard Top 200 chart.  The explosive lead single and fan favorite  “She’s Country” stormed up the radio charts to No. 1 and continues to be  one of the most digitally downloaded songs and ringtones in all genres.   With a calendar full of national television appearances and tour  dates, Aldean is looking forward to his busiest year to  date.

Bryan Adams and Jason  Aldean join an elite group of performers who have taped CMT  CROSSROADS, which pairs country music stars with popular artists from  other genres—pop, rock, R&B—to play together, swap stories, and share  their common love of music.  Previous episodes of CROSSROADS have  included Lindsey Buckingham and Little Big Town; Bon Jovi and Sugarland;  John Fogerty and Keith Urban; Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire; Joss Stone  and LeAnn Rimes; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; and Def Leppard and  Taylor Swift.

CMT CROSSROADS is presented by Alltel Wireless,  the first title sponsor of the critically-acclaimed series. 

CMT CROSSROADS is produced by Tom  Forrest and Kathryn Russ.  John Hamlin, Margaret Comeaux and Bill  Flanagan serve as executive producers for CMT.