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11. "Fly Over States" - Jason Aldean (Songwriters: Neil Thrasher & Michael Dulaney)
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Though it wasn't planned that way, it was fitting that Jason released a single touting the map dots between coasts often referred to as "flyover states" during this major election year. The patriotic love song to the heartland of America was right in the wheelhouse of what the Georgia native does best, and when he sings about that cowboy stacking U.S. steel on a three-day haul or that Santa Fe freight train engineer who's seen it all, it makes us want to break out the map and start driving -- top down, radio cranked, to see it all ourselves.
