Jason Aldean caught up with Billboard backstage at the ACM Awards on Sunday (April 7) after receiving the dick clark artist of the decade award to discuss what winning that honor means to him.
Asked where he was when he found out that he was this year’s recipient of the prize, Aldean tells Billboard that he was in the studio working on his new album when his manager stopped by to tell him the good news.
“I was kind of blown away,” Aldean confesses. “I mean, for one, it came out of left field for me. I didn’t even know that, that was comin’ up. Obviously I look back on the last 10 years and we’ve had a great run. But at the end, there’s a lot of artists in country music that had a great run over the last 10 years, and so to be the one that everybody voted for that thought should have that, I mean, that means a lot to me.”
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Aldean adds that getting his “hero” George Strait to present the award to him was also a special moment. “It was just a big night for me, my family, my crew, my team that’s been around me from day one that sort of helped get to this point,” he says. “So, it’s a special night.”
You can watch the full video interview with Jason Aldean above.
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