![]() Is he truly a generational star whose 19 #1 singles put him in contention for the Hall of Fame when his time comes, or is he a perennial 2nd-tier country star with some hot guitar chops who is good at cracking jokes? Love and War would seem to indicate the former is a more fair assessment than the latter. Because up to this point, the Paisley legacy is straddling the fence. This project could go on to define him in many ways. ![]() When reviewing one of the first songs released from this album-a rendition of a Johnny Cash poem Paisley put to music called “ Gold All Over The Ground“-it was said this could be a very important record in Brad Paisley’s career. But he always remained a steady rock of quality in the mainstream, and you had the sense his good guy persona wasn’t an act when he did things like taking the point when it came to remembering and preserving the legacy of “Little” Jimmy Dickens. Brad Paisley has never been the guy to define the sound of country at a given moment, even when he won Entertainer of the Year. Paisley’s last few records however, they had enough awkward moments and bad decisions to where even if you didn’t fall out of favor with Paisley, you still wanted something more from him. And though at that time his use of joke songs and some other nitpicky things were already beginning to wear thin for some, he was hard to hate. ![]() When Brad Paisley won the CMA for Entertainer of the Year in 2010, bisecting the years that Taylor Swift would walk away with the award, it felt like a victory for good ol’ country music. But many of those older Paisley songs are better and more country than what some local “Texas country” acts have to offer. Worth changed their rotation and added a few older Brad Paisley songs to the playlist, some listeners were up in arms. Recently when a local country station out of Ft. Even if you couldn’t get behind some of the newer songs, it was hard to not appreciate Paisley for his guitar playing, and he had enough solid material from early on in his career to point to as being more of a positive influence in mainstream country than a negative one. There was a time when Brad Paisley also held that position. ![]() When Dierks Bentley released his last dreadful record Black, it didn’t just mean we lost respect for Dierks for releasing the worst record of his career, and clearly what the suits wanted instead what Dierks wanted, it also meant we lost one of the very last good guys in mainstream country music-a dude that even many of the hard-nosed independent fans could find common ground with their mainstream buddies over. ![]()
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