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Highway Desperado
Highway Desperado
Studio album by Jason Aldean
Released	November 3, 2023
Genre	Country rock
Length	46:33
Label	Broken Bow
Producer	Michael Knox
Jason Aldean chronology
Singles from Highway Desperado
	"Try That in a Small Town"; Released: May 22, 2023; "Let Your Boys Be Country"; Released: November 27, 2023; "Whiskey Drink"; Released: July 29, 2024;

Highway Desperado is the eleventh studio album by American country music singer Jason Aldean, released on November 3, 2023 via Broken Bow Records. It was preceded by the lead single "Try That in a Small Town", which was released in May 2023 and has topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, as well as the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, becoming Aldean's first chart-topper on the latter chart. Three other songs, "Tough Crowd", "Let Your Boys Be Country",^[1] and "Whiskey Drink" were also released ahead of the album. "Let Your Boys Be Country" was released as the second single from the album.^[2]

Aldean co-wrote three of the album's fourteen tracks, making it his first album since 2009's Wide Open to contain tracks that he has written or co-written.^[1]

Track listing

*Highway Desperado* track listing
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Tough Crowd"	Kurt Allison Marv Green Tully Kennedy Kelley Lovelace Neil Thrasher	3:20
2.	"Let Your Boys Be Country"	Jaron Boyer Allison Veltz Cruz Micah Wilshire	3:15
3.	"Knew You'd Come Around"	Kennedy Allison Ben Hayslip John Morgan	3:14
4.	"Hungover In a Hotel"	Jason Aldean Kennedy Allison Neil Thrasher David Lee Murphy	3:24
5.	"Try That in a Small Town"	Allison Kennedy Lovelace Thrasher	3:00
6.	"Whiskey Drink"	Allison Jonathan Edwards Kennedy Morgan	3:10
7.	"Whose Rearview"	Allison Kennedy Morgan Lydia Vaughn	3:16
8.	"I'm Over You"	Josh Phillips Wilshire Michael Tyler	3:00
9.	"Rather Watch You"	Jessi Alexander Allison Kennedy Lovelace Thrasher	3:33
10.	"Breakup Breakdown"	Aldean Allison Kennedy Morgan Vaughn	3:00
11.	"Get Away from You"	Allison Kennedy Morgan Vaughn	3:20
12.	"Changing Bars"	Allison Edwards Kennedy Morgan	3:25
13.	"From This Beer On"	Allison Edwards Kennedy Morgan	3:07
14.	"Highway Desperado"	Aldean Allison Edwards Kennedy Morgan	4:24
Total length:			46:33

Personnel

Musicians

Jason Aldean – vocals
Tully Kennedy – bass (all tracks), programming (tracks 1, 3–7, 9, 11–14)
Rich Redmond – drums
Kurt Allison – electric guitar (all tracks), programming (1, 3–7, 9, 11–14), keyboards (1, 5–7, 14), twelve-string guitar (7)
Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar (all tracks), slide guitar (8)
Michael Knox – programming
Mike Johnson – pedal steel guitar (1–10)
Danny Rader – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 5–7, 11–13), bouzouki (2, 11–13)
Blake Bollinger – programming (1, 3–14)
Tony Harrell – Hammond B3 organ (1–3, 5–7, 10–13), synthesizer (4, 8, 9), piano (11), keyboards (14)
Neil Thrasher – background vocals (1, 4, 5, 9)
Perry Coleman – background vocals (2, 3, 6, 7, 10–14)
Micah Wilshire – background vocals (2, 7, 8, 11–14), programming (2, 8, 10), electric guitar (2, 8); piano, synth bass (8)
John Willis – acoustic guitar (3, 4, 8–11)
Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar (11–14)

Technical

Michael Knox – production
Adam Ayan – mastering
Jeff Braun – mixing
Brandon Epps – engineering, editing (all tracks); vocal engineering (3, 4)
Peter Coleman – engineering
Mickey Jack Cones – vocal engineering
Micah Wilshire – vocal engineering (2–4, 6–14)

Charts

Chart performance for *Highway Desperado*
Chart (2023)	Peak position
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)^[3]	14
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[4]	44
UK Album Downloads (OCC)^[5]	34
UK Country Albums (OCC)^[6]	5
UK Independent Albums (OCC)^[7]	32
US Billboard 200^[8]	19
US Independent Albums (Billboard)^[9]	4
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[10]	6