Brad Paisley This Is Country Music

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December 28th, 2011

Brad Paisley‘s This Is Country Music has moments of brilliance that highlight a lot of genre imitation as well as audience-pandering. It is a thing of a correction of a certain course, an appeal to the country music genre’s conservatism, in its perfect moments, showcases the deepness as well as perception which country music can provide.

The album’s label track finds Paisley saying that country music is the special domain of songs regarding Jesus and cancer, straightly dealing with his audience by saying few lines in his song. To that end, This Is Country Music works much better as a topic than it does as a track. Taking into consideration the song’s uninspired melody as well as production, and how Paisley notably ignores much of the famous music today when claiming his genre’s superiority of subject. The album is among weak singles of Paisley. But his usage of a few lyrics on this track as a repeating motif all through the album is a sensible, extremely effective way to give the album  its own structure.

This is Country Music plays as a course of survey, both in content and form. Obviously, both cancer as well as Jesus turns up. But a cover of the conventional hymn Life’s Railway to Heaven, with guests such as Sheryl Crow, v, as well as Marty Stuart is a cut. There’s a very good song: Love Her Like She’s Leaving and an enormous up tempo track, Camouflage.

Although he wrote or co-wrote the most of the songs here with a precise outline in mind, the best cut on the album is one that Paisley didn’t write. A Man Don’t Have to Die is a deep, tricky song that travels the escapism, and the solid spiritual bent of the best country songs. It’s among the best things Paisley has recorded.

It’s on songs such as I Do Now and A Man Don’t Have to Die that Paisley hits the marks, and This is Country Music tends to turn into a very good country album rather than an album merely just about good country music. That’s a difference Paisley has gotten right most of the time during his career, making the album: This is Country Music less pleasing than Time Well Wasted, American Saturday Night or Mud on the Tires. But even if the album isn’t up to Paisley’s usual standards, the album (This is Country Music) remains to be an appealing, ambitious project from a man who does not need to make an apology for his mistakes.

To know what This is Country Music is all about, look into its lyrics, then download the Mp3 track; if you want you can even search for its chords (in case you want to play it yourself).