{"id":2515206,"date":"2026-07-24T06:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2515206"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:22:43","slug":"country-music-singer-jake-owen-talks-new-album-aaron-rodgers-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/country-music-singer-jake-owen-talks-new-album-aaron-rodgers-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Country music singer Jake Owen talks new album, Aaron Rodgers and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Country music singer Jake Owen is set for a show next month at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, but he doesn\u2019t really consider himself a betting man \u2014 other than his initial move to Nashville to chase his country music dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoot, the only thing I\u2019ve ever really gambled on is the chance of leaving college and trying to make it in the music business,\u201d Owen said. \u201cI feel like I hit blackjack with that, because there\u2019s a lot of people that lay their cards down on the table, and for some reason it worked out for me, and I\u2019m real grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The gamble to leave Florida State paid off for Owen, who has racked up 10 No. 1 singles on country radio, including songs like \u201cBarefoot Blue Jean Night\u201d and \u201cBeachin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His latest album, 2025\u2019s \u201cDreams to Dream,\u201d may be a departure from the mainstream country radio style he\u2019s known for, but he\u2019ll be playing most of those aforementioned No. 1 hits on Aug. 15, when he visits the Events Center at Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh\u2019s North Shore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Owen - Barefoot Blue Jean Night (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRh-vBOS-dU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Although Owen said he didn\u2019t have many Pittsburgh connections, the one he mentioned is a pretty big one.<\/p>\n<section\/>\n<p>\u201cWell, my buddy Aaron Rodgers is hopefully going to take you guys to a Super Bowl, I\u2019m hoping,\u201d Owen said. \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of friends that are all Pittsburgh guys, and I get to watch them wave their towels around their head every year. I have a lot of respect for people that have that deep of an affinity for their team and the tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Owen said he became friends with Rodgers over the years during celebrity golf tournaments (Owen placed 19th at the American Century Championship earlier this month in Nevada).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get them off of their normal so-called football field, golf\u2019s an equalizer so I feel like we all get to know each other in that aspect,\u201d Owen said. \u201cIt\u2019s been cool to get to know those guys, but Aaron has been a good friend to me and those guys. I\u2019m always pulling for him and can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever pulled for the Steelers, just not being from there or anything, but now that he\u2019s there, I find myself pulling for you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a recent call from Nashville, Owen spoke with TribLive about his show, his latest album and more. Find a transcript of the conversation, edited for clarity and length, below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For this show, what can people expect out of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, I\u2019ve really prided myself on having a good time and making sure people are entertained. I think a big part of live shows is the entertainment factor. Anybody can go sit in front of a microphone and sing you songs and if they wanted to just sit back and listen to someone deliver the song, they could probably just do that in their car or at the house. But I\u2019ve always been somebody that\u2019s prided myself on combining great music with good entertainment value. For a lot of years, we\u2019ve really worked on our show being that level of entertainment. I like to think that people come to our show, even if they\u2019ve never seen it before and they go, wow, that was really entertaining. That guy is having a lot of fun up there, and they\u2019re making us have a good time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How about with the setlist? Is there going to be a lot of the new stuff on there? Is it gonna be heavy on older songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been lucky enough throughout my career \u2014 I\u2019ve had 10 No. 1 songs. So it\u2019s kind of hard to play shows and not do the songs and hits that everybody knows. But I throw some new stuff in there. I\u2019m also not the guy either that\u2019s going to go play a bunch of new stuff that nobody knows. I\u2019ve been to plenty of concerts where the artist is way more excited about their new music than the actual audience is. (laughs) So you know how those shows go, right? I\u2019ve never been that guy. Like I said, I focus on making sure people have a great time. In order to do that, I want to make sure that they get what they came for.<\/p>\n<section\/>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Owen - Dreams to Dream (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9xUIUItdqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Your latest album, \u201cDreams to Dream,\u201d came out last year so what do you feel is different about that one compared to past records?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s definitely something that was intentionally meant for me more than it was for my audience. I can\u2019t say that prior albums felt that way. It seemed like when I was part of the big national machine of putting music out commercially on the radio, that you really strategically choose and record songs that will work on the radio and will connect to an audience in a way that\u2019s more commercialized. That\u2019s just part of the game. Lots of people out there are putting out great music, but it may not necessarily always fit the so-called standards of what radio is looking for as commercialized music. So any of us that have been lucky enough to have songs on the radio, much less go No. 1, is an awesome thing. So I\u2019m super grateful for all my time at country radio, and I still aim for that.<\/p>\n<p>But this record in particular was really more or less a passion project for me of speaking the truth on where I\u2019m at in my life, things I\u2019ve gone through. It gave me an opportunity once I left my label Big Loud to go, so I self-funded it and did it myself. I didn\u2019t have anybody. The problem with sometimes wanting to make a passion project like that is that if a label knows that they\u2019re not going to get a big return on it, they\u2019re not going to be too high on wanting to push an artist actually doing that. If they\u2019re going to invest in it, they want to see a big return. And for me, I didn\u2019t really care about the return at all. I just wanted to make great music and be fulfilling to myself. So anyhow, I\u2019ll definitely play some off that record, for sure. But it wasn\u2019t something that was meant to really blend in too much to everything else I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div class=\"container tw-relative tw-mx-auto tw-max-w-[1000px] tw-px-[20px]\">\n<h2>Featured Local Businesses<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u2002<\/p>\n<h4><b>Related<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>\u2022 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/aande\/music\/311s-nick-hexum-talks-summer-tour-unity-and-more-before-pittsburgh-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-related-story=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">311\u2019s Nick Hexum talks summer tour, unity and more before Pittsburgh show<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/aande\/music\/blues-musician-ruthie-foster-on-saying-yes-grammy-win-and-more-ahead-of-free-pittsburgh-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-related-story=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues musician Ruthie Foster on saying yes, Grammy win and more ahead of free Pittsburgh show<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/aande\/music\/2026-pittsburgh-area-concert-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-related-story=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 Pittsburgh area concert calendar<\/a><br \/>\u2002<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>Was it daunting then to take on a completely different sound than what you\u2019re known for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, actually, it felt like the freedom that I\u2019ve never felt before and quite frankly, working with Shooter Jennings out in L.A., which is so far from Nashville, it was like removing myself from this big so-called pool I\u2019ve been swimming in with a bunch of other big fish and going out and immersing myself into a world that I hadn\u2019t. Quite frankly, sometimes getting outside your comfort zone and getting into an uncomfortable situation can bring out the better side of you that you didn\u2019t think you had in you. It always takes somebody else believing in you. I felt there were times where Shooter really lifted me up and applauded me in ways that I don\u2019t think I was applauding myself.<\/p>\n<section\/>\n<p>That\u2019s part of the beauty of touring and being an artist, when I first left college for Nashville, I had the utmost confidence and belief in myself that I was going to do all this, and I did. I think that it stems from confidence and then through the years, opinions and critical reviews, it doesn\u2019t matter, you put music out because you love it, but then there\u2019s always going to be people, writers, whatever, they\u2019re going to tell you why they don\u2019t like it or why Jake\u2019s career is not going the way it should. The more you start reading that stuff, it does chip away at you, whether anybody will admit it or not. The honesty is, as we all grow older, we start protecting ourselves more. So it\u2019s really cathartic and feels good to let all that go and just say I don\u2019t care what happens. I don\u2019t care what people think. I care what makes me happy, and that\u2019s what felt good about going and making this album. Now I can get back to what I\u2019ve also loved too on the other side of the fence, which is making great radio-style songs and things like that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<section\/><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v18.0\" nonce=\"DYvHZ8qr\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source community.triblive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music singer Jake Owen is set for a show next month at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, but he doesn\u2019t really consider himself a betting man \u2014 other than his initial move to Nashville to chase his country music dreams. \u201cShoot, the only thing I\u2019ve ever really gambled on is the chance of leaving college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2515207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2515206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Country-music-singer-Jake-Owen-talks-new-album-Aaron-Rodgers.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515208,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515206\/revisions\/2515208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2515207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}