About Aldean's Tattoos on This Town

Rural pyschogeography, might be deeper, and less tangible, less
ability to be transfered through the action of a flanuer, or through
those who seek to control the flanuer, because the relationships are
interwoven, deeper--i think because the size requires an interrelation
and a depletion of inter-relation to function completely. So less of a
drawing on the city and more of a mark, less decay and more
repair--this permanentness leads to a trapping and a desire to escape,
which country has written about, but also a seeking to further the
history. One of the things that leftist discourse around class around
the Occupy Wall-street, and much earlier--is they fail to realize how
traumatic the economies dissolving of farm and small town ties can
be--how deep that landscape is. I think one of the reasons for the
recent influx of taxonomic texts in Nashville about the south
(anything from the Pistol Annie's Boys from the South to Justin
Moore's Small Town USA to Easton Corbin's Small Town USA to to Miranda
Lambert's Famous in a Small Town to Eric Church's Homeboy to Little
Big Town's Boondocks to Luke Bryan's Country Girl, Shake it for Me, to
Blake Shelton's Good Ol' Boys...and all of these w/i the last year) ,
is an oblique way of working through what the eventual dissolution of
this way of life would look like--there are some explicit works, but
the side eyed gaze to the marks of location on people function better.
Aldean has done better songs about this (and actually his best songs
are slightly nostalgic marks of lived pleasure, which is a different
kind of emergency, and often those songs conflate genre with
geography; the rock and roll of Hicktown, the hip hop choruses of
Dirt Road Anthem, etc) and so the genre purity of this and the lack of
pleasure, or anything really prescriptive, has hints of already giving
up--which is actually sort of terrifying. I am not sure that this is a
good song, but it is an important song. And that matters, more then
the problems I could point out with this track--the guitar is a little
flat, the vocals are not as adventurous, the lyrics don't have the
details that he and his song writers excel at--and one doesn't want to
over emphasize absence as presence. It is smack in the middle of a
geographic and cultural shift that is continually being recorded--and
this records it slightly better then others, not not nearly as well as
his best work. Does that make it a 5?

Side Question--Are there more men hoeing this row, and if so, what
does that mean?