Jason Aldean wasn’t always a country superstar with 25 chart-topping hits. In his early days in the music industry, Aldean was struggling and literally starving for success. in a new interview with Taste of Country Nights: On Demand, Aldean reflects on the lowest point in his career when life was hard for him and his family. “I was starving, I had a brand new baby. My oldest daughter had just been born, I didn’t have any money,” Aldean recalls of when his daughter, Keeley Ann Williams, was born back in 2003. “I wasn’t thinking longterm. It was like, ‘I need to get this song going just so I can generate some money to, like, keep from losing my house and to be able to buy diapers.’ Those kind of things.”

Soon after, Aldean would sign with his longtime label, Broken Bow Records, release his self-titled debut album which featured the Top 10 hit, “Hicktown,” and his celebrated career was on its way. “For it to turn into what it has, I never … I dunno, maybe I was just kind of naïve to the point of thinking that it could ever become this,” Aldean says appreciatively. (The Boot)