Ragweed was good, as usual…some nights, they want to be Merle Haggard and some nights, they want to be Led Zeppelin. This was Zeppelin night.

I did not enjoy headliner Aldean’s set, but the crowd seemed to. The musicians in his band aren’t that talented, frankly, and I’m fairly certain that he used backing tracks (I heard a fiddle, but I didn’t see a fiddle player and the guitarists weren’t playing fiddle parts). All of his songs are either variations on “Hicktown” or “Why.” Their cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” was downright embarassing. Again, though, the near capacity crowd (in an 8,000 seat arena) ate it up — to each his own.