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Song of the Day #1,021: ‘Whiskey Lullaby’ – Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss

Brad Paisley can do so many things so well.

He’s perhaps the best songwriter around at composing straight-forward love songs (quick, name a more effective recent love song than ‘Then’ or ‘She’s Everything’). He has a great sense of humor that shines through in his albums as well as onstage. He’s a peerless guitar player who surrounds himself with excellent session players to record albums that rock and swing like crazy.

But even given all that, Paisley can still surprise from time to time, and today’s SOTD is a fine example.

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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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