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Song of the Day #921: ‘Oh Yeah, You’re Gone’ – Brad Paisley

Today’s song, a slow beauty from the back half of Brad Paisley’s wonderful American Saturday Night, falls into a category I like to call “Dead or Dumped?”

The lyrics are sufficiently vague and the tone sufficiently somber to support the theory that the woman Paisley is singing about left him not by choice but because she dropped dead.

I’ve encountered other songs with a similar make-up, though I can’t for the life of me think of any of them right now. If you can, please add them to the comments.

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Song of the Day #596: ‘She’s Everything’ – Brad Paisley

Today is my wedding anniversary… lucky number thirteen. I’ve now spent more than a third of my life married and just about half of my life with this wonderful woman. And those percentages will keep on creeping up. The way time is flying these days, I know 15 and 20 will be upon us in a blink.

And that prospect absolutely thrills me. I’m baffled by those men (and women) who fear commitment and view marriage as a restricting thing. On the contrary, I find it perfectly liberating. It’s a powerful and freeing thing to completely be yourself with another person, for better or worse. I suppose some people are able to do that with just anybody, but for me it doesn’t come easy.

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Song of the Day #554: ‘Make a Mistake’ – Brad Paisley

For the final installment of Brad Paisley week, I will demonstrate that Brad Paisley is one hell of a musician.

Reading his early reviews, it’s funny to see critics speculate whether a guy with his guitar chops could be taken seriously as a singer and writer of songs. This was before he became one of the top selling artists in country music, of course.

Paisley does play a mean guitar, but today’s song is meant to illustrate not just his skill but his desire to surround himself with top musicians.

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Song of the Day #553: ‘Famous People’ – Brad Paisley

For the fourth installment of my Brad Paisley theme week, I’m using one song to illustrate two different points: Brad Paisley has great taste in covers, and Brad Paisley is a terrific singer. This song could also have been used on the first day to support the ‘Brad Paisley is funny’ point, but because he didn’t write it, I didn’t find that appropriate.

Apparently it’s pretty commonplace in country music to perform other people’s songs… not in the Britney Spears sense where you have professional songwriters who churn out product for pretty faces to sing but in a friendly ‘pass the guitar around the room’ sort of way. It’s the spirit behind Lyle Lovett’s two albums of cover songs and the reason a wonderful songwriter like Brad Paisley still fits in a few covers on each of his albums.

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Song of the Day #552: ‘Then’ – Brad Paisley

And now the third reason I totally dig Mr. Kimberly Williams: Brad Paisley is romantic.

And I mean very romantic. His albums are generally split between three kinds of songs… the funny songs, the heartbreak songs and the love songs. I wouldn’t say he’s any better at one group than the others — he’s great at them all — but he comes across as particularly sincere in the love songs.

I imagine that’s because he’s still in the extended honeymoon phase of his marriage, together seven years with two young children, and because Kimberly Williams — in addition to being extremely cute — seems like a very cool person. I shamefully admit to reading her Twitter feed in preparation for this blog entry.

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