Brad Paisley
Brad Paisley
Brad Douglas Paisleyis an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting with his 1999 debut album, Who Needs Pictures, he has released 10 studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified Gold or higher by the RIAA. He has scored 32 top 10 singles on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart, 19 of which have reached #1. He set a new record in 2009 for most consecutive singlesreaching the top spot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth28 October 1972
CityGlen Dale, WV
CountryUnited States of America
I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.
I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.
If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard
If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal
I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.
She's a yellow pair of running shoes, a holey pair of jeans. She looks great in cheap sunglasses, she looks great in anything. She's, "I want a piece of chocolate cake; take me to a movie." She's a, "I can't find a thing to wear." Now and then she's moody. She's a Saturn with a sunroof with her brown hair blowing. She's a warm conversation I wouldn't miss for nothing. She's a fighter when she's mad and she's a lover when she's lovin'.
... We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...
...you think back to Tele players, and James Burton was the one who started it all. He inspired Roy Nichols (guitar for Merle Haggard & the Strangers), Don Rich (guitar for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos), and guys like that to push the envelope and expand on that sound... I really identify with that kind of thinking ... those guys to me are the reason why any of us do this..
... Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles ! ...
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
... when Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique...
I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.