Brad Paisley sets “Play” date, and Vince Gill is invited
Country music star Brad Paisley is releasing his new album, a mostly instrumental collection, on Nov. 4, which is Election Day.
Titled “Play,” the album includes 15 tracks; Paisley wrote or co-wrote 11 of them. Described in a news release as “an all-out guitar celebration,” it includes just four vocal tracks, which feature Paisley picking and singing with B.B. King, Keith Urban, Steve Wariner and the late Buck Owens.
The reigning Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association top male vocalist, Paisley indulges in a little joyful blues with the legendary King on “Let the Good Times Roll,” according to the release.
Paisley and Urban collaborate on the playful “Start a Band,” while he and Wariner co-wrote and perform “More Than Just This Song,” a tribute to the guitar heroes who gave them their start with a six-string.
Paisley joins his friend and idol Owens on “Come on In,” a previously unfinished track that Owens wrote and recorded.
He also pays tribute to guitar great Les Paul (”Les Is More”), his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley (”Kim”) and baby son William Huckleberry Paisley (”Huckleberry Jam”) on the album.
In keeping with tradition, the album includes a gospel classic, an acoustic rendition of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”
Paisley’s friend, frequent collaborator and “elder statesman” “Little” Jimmy Dickens also makes an appearance on the album, according to the release. Dickens plays the part of “Grandpa Paisley” in the comic “Pre-Cluster Cluster Pluck Prequel (Prelude).”
The prelude sets up the all-star guitar jam, “Cluster Pluck,” featuring guests Wariner, James Burton, John Jorgensen, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and Oklahoma native Vince Gill.
Paisley, who has sold more than 10 million albums since his debut came out in 1999, won his first Grammy this year for Best Country Instrumental Performance. He also has been featured on the covers of Guitar Player and Vintage Guitar magazines.
-BAM
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