Latest Release
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- 29 SEPT 2023
- 4 Songs
- F-1 Trillion (Long Bed) · 2024
- F-1 Trillion · 2024
- Mud On the Tires · 2003
- F-1 Trillion (Long Bed) · 2024
- We Still Can't Say Goodbye: A Musicians' Tribute to Chet Atkins · 2024
- Son Of The Mountains: The First Four Tracks - EP · 2023
- Son Of The Mountains: The First Four Tracks - EP · 2023
- So Many Summers - Single · 2023
- It's A Country Pop Summer · 2023
- Same Here (feat. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy) - Single · 2023
Essential Albums
- From the beginning, Brad Paisley was typecast as a great hope of traditional country—the kind of guy who could carry the torch for George Strait, Garth Brooks, Randy Travis and George Jones. His songs were funny, warm and fresh, but also indifferent to trend. In a landscape about to be filled with baseball hats, Paisley hung on to his Stetson. On his first few albums, you could hear the gears turning. By 2005’s Time Well Wasted, it became second nature. Like Strait and Brooks, Paisley’s songs had an offhand brilliance, familiar enough to make you feel like you’d heard them before, but novel enough to remind you that you hadn’t. Traditional, yes, but never nostalgic. Instead, Paisley treated evergreen subjects—romance (“Waitin’ on a Woman”), youth (“Out In the Parkin’ Lot”, with Alan Jackson), spiritual salvation (“Where I Get Where I’m Going”, featuring Dolly Parton) and terrestrial pleasure (“Alcohol”)—like the same human preoccupations they’d been in country music for a hundred years. An interviewer later asked Paisley what he thought the most important ingredient in his success was. The songs, he said. Almost everything here could’ve been recorded 50 years earlier, some in more or less the same form. The distinction was subtle, but real: Nostalgia ties to you to the past. But tradition? You can take tradition wherever you go.
- Brad Paisley has never been one to hide his tender side, and on his rootsy, playful debut album, he finds plenty of room for big, heartwarming country ballads. "We Danced" condenses an entire rom-com into three sweeping minutes, while "He Didn't Have to Be" expresses gratitude toward a stepfather who embraced the narrator with open arms. Paisley’s humorous side is on full display as well, with "Me Neither" rattling off a series of failed pickup lines over racing guitar and duelling pianos.
Artist Playlists
- He'll melt your heart one minute and crack you up the next.
- The country star who's always true to himself on camera.
- More than just a gifted songwriter, he's a six-string demon.
Compilations
- 2010
Appears On
More To Hear
- Brad Paisley shares stories from Nashville's 4th of July bash.
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- Brad Paisley talks about his new project, City of Music.
- Brad Paisley discusses the explosion of country music overseas.
About Brad Paisley
Clad in an ever-present white cowboy hat and often armed with his 1968 pink paisley Telecaster, Brad Paisley stands apart as a consummate performer even in a genre rich with them—the flashy guitar is just the beginning. Paisley’s virtuosic chicken pickin’, sense of humour and myriad non-musical talents have also helped make him a household name. Among those talents are acting and writing, and he even put together Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo in 2017, but his songs remain his true legacy. While many country singers pick a lane, Paisley, born in 1972 in West Virginia, has explored subjects like everlasting love (“Then”), good times (“No I in Beer”), backwoods romps (“Ticks”) and even depression and suicide (“Whiskey Lullaby”). His ability to wear many figurative hats has built him for both prolificacy and longevity, netting 32 Top 10 singles in the U.S. in the two decades after his 1999 debut, Who Needs Pictures. And his knack for cleverly capturing the drama and comedy of the human experiment ensures that even a song like 2019’s “Alive Right Now”, planted firmly in our tech-riddled present, has an element of timelessness. As long as Paisley’s wielding his signature Tele, the laughs—and the tears—will continue.
- HOMETOWN
- Glen Dale, WV, United States
- BORN
- 28 October 1972
- GENRE
- Country