A great album, "Mud on the Tires", Brad Paisley.
At first, listening to my daughters talk, he was just a guy with beautiful eyes. But no, after buying the album, I have to say that the recording is good, studio, but good studio, and the music, if you're so inclined, excellent. Me, I'm ecclectic so if it's good I like it.
The song, "Whiskey Lullaby" which won song of the year, maybe a year ago, has an interesting story--for those non country folk who might read this the refrain of the song, which features Allison Kraus, goes like this, "He put a bottle to his head and pulled the trigger." Grim yes, but great music, plus a funny story.
One night I am surfing the TV channels in the wee hours, as all good insomniacs do and come across the country video station, and lo and behold theres the video, but with the writer of the song doing a voice over, (probably right after the award was given).
The VJay asks him about the unusual lyric, and he says.
"Well about a year ago, during a one month period, I lost my girl, my recording contract, then my writing contract, then of course my manager. So, uh, I started drinking and laying around the house. So about a month or so goes by and my manager comes over to check on me I guess, and says 'what on earth is going on', (apparently in response to how he looked, and maybe a bunch of whiskey bottles lying around). The manager then spoke the magic words, "Man, you just put a bottle to your head an pulled the trigger." The song writer, as he explained got a twinkle in his eye.
"The rest is history, I wrote the song, and now it's song of the year."
Funny, true? Who knows, but fun.
Great album, and by the way Brad Paisley is a REALLY good singer of this genre and some of the better engineers in the world converged on the 'money' of music for many years, Country, making this a good listen.
Buy it, you'll like it. Another great song is "You Said You Want Somebody To Know you", (I think).
Get some beer so you can cry in it!
Good listening.
Larry
