Old Boots, New Dirt
by Jason Aldean
User Score
4.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 28 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 28
  3. Negative: 15 out of 28
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  1. Uncle_Oinker
    Oct 23, 2016
    10
    Fantastic avant-garde alt-country. An absolute masterpiece in every sense of the word. A must listen, do it straight away and as soon as possible. Great meme
  2. Margey1
    Nov 24, 2017
    10
    Old Boots New Dirt is one of those albums you can listen to from cover to cover, from tracks one through fifteen because each and every track is good. It's not like Aldean put a few hit songs on here and filled the rest of the album with filler space, each and every individual song on this album is good. At the time Aldean was turning a new leaf in his life and seeing a new person and sheOld Boots New Dirt is one of those albums you can listen to from cover to cover, from tracks one through fifteen because each and every track is good. It's not like Aldean put a few hit songs on here and filled the rest of the album with filler space, each and every individual song on this album is good. At the time Aldean was turning a new leaf in his life and seeing a new person and she must have been really inspirational for him. These songs are very rock-country, very power filled, some of them, and some of them are emotional and even operatic, like the song "Too Fast" on here. Songs like that demonstrate Aldean's vocal range (which is better recorded than live) and how he can sound like either a rock or an opera singer but always strong and powerful and backed by strong drum sounds. There is not a boring song on this album and it is one of the few country albums (I'm a huge fan of the genre and have been for years) that I can listen to from cover to cover.… Expand

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Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Country Weekly
    Oct 30, 2014
    50
    Much of the rest of the album features ho-hum mid-tempos and ballads that don’t move the meter much in either direction.
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  2. Rolling Stone
    Oct 15, 2014
    50
    Even his big, guitar-driven songs owe as much to Nickelback as to Nashville – if the pedal steel on ''Two Night Town'' sounds forlorn, maybe that's because it’s competing for attention with gravelly alt-rock distortion.
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  3. PopMatters
    Oct 14, 2014
    20
    The desperation of the drinking and the narcissistic banality of the lyrics are matched by songs that have long guitar solos, or places where the bands play loudly against Aldean’s voice--which is often flat, and rarely works enough energy to move past a laconic speech song.
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