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30 Aug, 1999

He Didn’t Have To Be

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The artist releases He Didn’t Have To Be, from his album, Who Needs Pictures.

He Didn’t Have To Be was probably the most life-changing three minutes that I’ve ever written, because I really believe we wouldn’t be sitting here anymore talking. Maybe we’d be sitting here with me having written a #1 song for somebody else, but I don’t think I’d still have a record deal without that song. It broke the ice for me with radio. It was like you could see potential in it, and that’s an important thing. I was really lucky, it wasn’t like we knew what we were doing. I just happened [to write] that with my best friend from the bottom of my heart about his situation.

Brad Paisley - He Didn't Have To Be (Official Video)

25 Feb, 2002

I’m Gonna Miss Her

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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.

Brad Paisley - I'm Gonna Miss Her (Official Video)

29 Mar, 2004

Whiskey Lullaby

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The artist releases his single, Whiskey Lullaby, which features vocals from Krauss, from his album, Mud On The Tires. Paisley:

It’s an angelic, ghostly bluegrass ballad, really a tragedy, and I think when I get to heaven, if the angels don’t sound like Alison Krauss, we have been cheated.

Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby (Full Version - Official Video) ft. Alison Krauss

12 Mar, 2007

Ticks

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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.

Brad Paisley - Ticks (Live)

2 Jul, 2007

Online

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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.

Brad Paisley - Online (Official Video)

22 Oct, 2007

Letter To Me

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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.

Brad Paisley - Letter To Me (Official Video)

10 Feb, 2008

Wins Grammy

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Paisley wins the Grammy for Best Country Instrumental Performance for Throttleneck.

23 Jun, 2008

Waitin’ On A Woman

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The artist releases his single, Waitin’ On A Woman, from his album, 5th Gear. Co-writer, Varble:

A buddy of mine told me about a friend of ours who was in the hospital and wasn’t doing well at all. After I hung up with him, I talked to the guy and asked how he was doing. He was in his last days, and I asked him where his wife was. He said he told her to go home, that there was nothing she could do there. That title came to mind, and that little story, the outline of it.
Don [Sampson] and I had started a song the week before that we were going to finish, but Don said, ‘Shoot, let’s write this instead of that other one.’ We finished it in one day. That afternoon, I went to town to play it for one of my song pluggers down there, Cris Lacy. She hears a million songs, and I looked up at her afterwards, and she had tears down her face. I told Don, ‘I think we have something if it got through Cris Lacy’s hard shell.’ About a week later, somebody at Brad Paisley’s company played it for him, and he put it on hold, and the rest is history.

Brad Paisley - Waitin' On A Woman (Official Video)