Brad Paisley

American Saturday Night lives up to its title, invoking images of baseball, mom's apple pie and Chevrolet, but there's a lot more going on in Brad Paisley's eighth effort, which stands as his most personal album to date. The country star co-wrote every song, and he flirts with subjects from fatherhood ("Anything Like Me") and his marriage ("She's Her Own Woman") to time and technology ("Back to the Future"). Of course it just wouldn't be a Brad Paisley album without a touch of humor, and "You Do the Math," "The Pants" and "Water" offer plenty of that.

Has anyone had a better decade in Nashville than Brad Paisley? A string of superb albums
has established Paisley as the city's most prolific, amiable and funny superstar. His new disc
offers a typically appealing mix: prom ballads, gospel-tinged weepers, odes to fatherhood
and plentiful yuks. But the heart of it is a double shot of widescreen optimism: the title
track's party-hearty celebration of the melting pot, and the arena-rock-flavored... More >