ACM Award Winners on Freegal: Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Thompson Square

Miranda Lambert was the biggest Freegal artist to win at the Academy of Country Music Awards Sunday night. She picked up Female Vocalist of the Year along with Single Record and Song of the Year for her song “Over You.

Lambert’s albums Kerosene, Revolution, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Four the Record are available for free and legal downloads from Freegal.

Jason Aldean picked up Male Vocalist of the Year. Freegal includes his albums Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party, Relentless, Wide Open, and Night Train.


Thompson Square was voted Vocal Duo of the Year. Freegal has free downloads of all the songs on the albums Thompson Square and Just Feels Good. 

Academy of Country Music: Get the Scoop on Nominees You Can Download on Freegal

Freegal has free legal downloads of some of the ACM nominees. image credit

Entertainment Weekly calls the ACM awards the Golden Globes of country music.  It looks like it’s going to be a country music show—with a few awards thrown in here and there.

Here’s a roundup of the artists you can download free (and legally) from Freegal:

Entertainer of the Year

Jason Aldean
Miranda Lambert

Male Vocalist of the Year

Jason Aldean

Female Vocalist of the Year

Miranda Lambert
Martina McBride
Carrie Underwood

Vocal Duo of the Year

Love and Theft
Thompson Square

Album of the Year

Blown Away by Carrie Underwood

Single Record/Song of the Year

“Over You” by Miranda Lambert

Big Green Tractor by Jason Aldean

Photo: Tauno Erik

She has a beemer; he has a tractor. You can get the whole story with a free and legal download from Freegal.

I took a trip last weekend to my parents’ ranch in southern Colorado, the land of barley, potato farms and big green tractors. (Except my parents are International Harvester people, so their tractors are red.)

I have to say, Aldean’s song captures the feel of the fields and open spaces in the summertime. What a way to woo a girl. Put her on your lap and let her drive around on the big green tractor.

These days, the tractors have cabs and music players, so you could plug in this tune, impress your woman and get the potato field plowed. Suppose they have cup holders for your beer, too.

Beats sitting on a metal seat in the heat and the dust and the bugs. Which is the way I had to do it when I was raking hay. No wooing going on there. The only soundtrack was what you could hum to yourself.  But all that is just material for another song…

Crazy Town by Jason Aldean



Photo: Kaldari

   Jason Aldean. He's free on Freegal. And he's one of the best country musicians today.

"It's a crazy town, full of neon dreams
Everybody plays
Everybody sings.."

I've loved this ode to Nashville by Jason Aldean since I heard it on one of those "best of" country albums.

Some hard-core fiddle playing gets it started.

And in the middle you get to yell out  "Bang, bang, bang!" with him in the chorus. Any song that lets you yell "Bang, bang, bang!" is good with me.

Jason Aldean: Free and Legal Music Downloads

I first heard country singer Jason Aldean on one of those compilation CD's of best country songs of the year.

The song was "Crazy Town," his ode to his  Nashville experience. "One year they repossess your truck/ the next you make a couple million bucks."

I like the strong beat and the lyrics. My 14-year old daughter loves the hard-hitting violin intro. For more info on Aldean, as well as where to get free downloads click here: Jason  Aldean   For more info on Freegal, click here: Freegal

[Jason Aldean at McElroy Auditorium , Larry Gaffey
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