Brad Paisley Talks About Working With Friends On Forthcoming Album
(Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley at the 45th Annual ACM Awards)
Brad Paisley is set to release a brand new album titled This Is Country Music on May 24. The album features Paisley’s latest radio hits “Old Alabama” and “This Is Country Music.”
In addition to working with Alabama on This Is Country Music, Paisley also worked with an array of other artists.
“We have Don Henley singing background vocals on something that sounds like the Eagles a little bit,” Paisley said backstage after the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. “Sheryl Crow, Marty Stuart, [and] Carl Jackson sing on the gospel song.”
When discussing working with his labelmate Carrie Underwood, Brad said, “[Carrie] is the best singer in any format of music, I'm convinced.”
“Every take, when you hear the song with her, every take that she did sounded exactly as good as what we choose as far as every time she sang it. I am floored by her and I'm really proud of that moment,” he added.
He also got to work with his summer tourmate, Blake Shelton on a song called “Don't Drink The Water.” Paisley said he “look[s] forward to singing [it] with him all summer.”
Paisley also has an unlikely guest on the album. He revealed that Clint Eastwood will appear on an instrumental track that is an “epic movie soundtrack-sounding Western.”
“I've become friends with Clint and his wife, Dina,” Brad explained.”So I emailed Dina and said, ‘does he whistle?’ And she said, ‘yeah, you want him to whistle on something?’ I said, ‘I have a thing that sounds like an Ennio Morricone, the guy that did all the spaghetti western music like ‘The Good, Bad and The Ugly,’ and of course it has to have (makes a whistle sound) all that kind of stuff. I asked, ‘can he do that?’ She wrote back and said, ‘he'd love to.'”
“So we went into the studio and he sang to the track. Sang, no you don't want to hear that [laughs], he whistled to the track and there he is. It's just little things like that keep me going. The fun of thinking that if you're going to have a Western, have the coolest cowboy of all time whistle on the thing.”
So what gave Paisley the inspiration to work with so many artists on this project?
“I felt like if you're going to call an album, This Is Country Music, you should involve some people that are responsible for both country in the past as well as currently and I just picked a few,” Paisley concluded.
