Country music star Jason Aldean’s video taken down after outcry over setting

Country Music Television removed Jason Aldean’s music video for the newly released single Try That In A Small Town (Amy Harris/Invision/AP/PA)

Country music star Jason Aldean’s latest video for his song Try That In A Small Town, lasted just one weekend on Country Music Television before the network pulled it in response to an outcry over its setting and lyrics.

In the video, Aldean — who has been awarded country music artist of the decade by the Academy of Country Music — performs in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, the site of the 1946 Columbia race riot and the 1927 mob lynching of an 18-year-old black teenager named Henry Choate.