Aldean previewed the album with songs including “Let Your Boys Be Country,” “Tough Crowd,” and his controversial “Try That in a Small Town.”
Aldean is a co-writer on three of the album’s 14 songs, including the title track “Highway Desperado,” as well as “Hungover in a Hotel” and “Breakup Breakdown.”,” “Tough Crowd,” and his controversial “Try That in a Small Town,” which earned both praise and intense criticism after the song’sin July. The clip features scenes filmed at Tennessee’s Maury County Courthouse, where a Black man named Henry Choate was lynched in 1927. The Columbia Race Riot also occurred there in 1946.
Aldean noted that the courthouse location is where he gets his vehicle registration renewed each year and that it is in the county he lives in.
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