Brad Paisley

The artist releases his single, Perfect Storm, from his album, Moonshine In The Trunk.

The Perfect Storm guitar part sounds like thunder. It’s got that crackle. Sometimes, the guitars and the lyrics come about at the same time.

The artist releases his single, River Bank, from his album, Moonshine In The Trunk.

There’s a groove that feels like that and I think we grabbed that groove when we made this track and, more than that, there’s a mindset that I am completely ready for after this winter.

The artist releases Beat This Summer, from his album, Wheelhouse. Paisley explains that the song:

is meant to look at one of those love affairs that happens over the course of a summer. Where a guy and a girl fall in love and realize that this is going to be the best summer of their lives. I’ve thought that many a different summer in my lifetime that ‘I’m never going to beat this one.

The artist releases Southern Comfort Zone, from, Wheelhouse.

An interesting fact about this video is that there is no green screen.The giraffe is real, every location is a real location. We flew 10,000 miles to do this, which is a lot of fun for me. I love to see the world. I’m in the right line of work for that.

The artist releases Water, from, American Saturday Night. The song according to Paisley:

deals with a love affair with water that began with an inflatable pool and grew to bigger bodies of water, and eventually all the things that you can do around water that you can’t get away with anywhere else. My songs are certainly influenced by how I see the world through other sets of eyes as well as my own.

The artist releases his single, Welcome To The Future, from his album, American Saturday Night.

I’m always striving for that moment where I feel like I did something the best I could do it, and I feel like with this song, I did that. I feel like the production is perfect for the song. There’s three things I wanted to do. I wanted to show this world through my eyes, my kids’ eyes, and my granddad’s eyes, with this look of hope. First of all, if you wanna blow the mind of a 10 year old in 1982, which was me, you go back and you take your iPhone and show him Pac-Man on it. You would have seen me spontaneously combust. I would have lost my mind. And then you want to do the same thing to my grandfather, go back to 1941 in the Phillippines and tell him, ‘Hang in there when the air raid sirens and kamikaze pilots are going off, it’ll be fine. Your grandson’s gonna play Japan twice on tour.’ He would have thought you were out of your mind. And then there’s my kids, who are gonna be like, ‘Dad, what’s the big deal? Yeah, the President’s black’.

The artist releases American Saturday Night, from his album with the same name.

The artist releases Letter To Me, from, 5th Gear.

There’s a line in the song that says, ‘And you should really thank Mrs. Brinkman.’ She was -- and still is -- the speech teacher at John Marshall High School. She told me, ‘You have to take this class. When you get up with a guitar you’re fine. But you need to know how to talk in any situation to a group of people if you really want to do this for a living.’ It was a pivotal time in my life.

The artist releases Online, from the album, 5th Gear. 

I remember thinking, ‘Well, the internet is sort of new, and people are getting away with complete false identities everywhere you look… It isn’t going to be this way forever; but this’ll be fun to put out right now. Boy, was I wrong. I think it’s way more relevant today.

The artist releases Ticks, from his album, 5th Gear. When asked about writing humorous songs:

I think it’s all in the timing. It’s like fishing. It’s baiting the hook and knowing when to set it. In ‘Ticks’ you bait them and go all the way down the chorus to ‘I’d like to walk you through a field of wild flowers.’ I could have ended it then with ‘So let’s take a drive’ (laughs). But that’s not setting the hook. After ‘I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers’ the ball is sitting on the T, so you swing and give it a line like ‘And I’d like to check you for ticks.

The artist releases She’s Everything, from his album, Time Well Wasted. 

The artist releases The World, from his album, Time Well Wasted.

The artist releases his single, When I Get Where I’m Going, from his album, Time Well Wasted. 

The artist releases Alcohol, from his album, Time Well Wasted. 

The artist releases Mud On The Tires, from the album with the same title.

The artist releases, Little Moments, from his album, Mud On The Tires.

The artist releases his single, Celebrity, from his album, Mud On The Tires.

The artist releases I Wish You’d Stay, from his album, Part II.

The artist releases I’m Gonna Miss Her, from Part II. When asked if he is concerned that some of his songs that are written from a male perspective aren’t universal enough:

I’ve found that with songs like that -- a good example is I’m Gonna Miss Her -- those are the ones that seem to get the biggest rise out of women. I think it’s because women see right through a song that attempts at saying, ‘You’re perfect, you’re this, you’re that’. It’s got to be really heartfelt because female intuition is really difficult to pass by if it’s not sincere. They have radar when it comes to things like that. But when you’re writing from the perspective of a man, it’s truly easier to get past that radar.

The artist releases Wrapped Around, from his album, Part II.

The artist releases his single, Two People Fell In Love, from his album, 5th Gear.