Written by Shane Whalen In a recent American Songwriter article, we compared the similarities of Jason Aldean’s controversial single “Try That In A Small Town” to one of pop music’s most celebrated songs in history—Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.” What we discovered was that a legendary guitar riff that sounded a lot like Eddie Van Halen’s […]
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