Album title: Love and War
Artist: Brad Paisley
Genre: Country
Nationality: American
Release date: April 21
Position in Discography: Eleventh
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Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? A little
Average RYM Score: 2.70
More country, but proper country it would seem. “One Beer Can” is hilarious, “Go To Bed Early” is, well, sexy, (“Let's go to bed early and stay up all night” - oh, you cheeky devil!) but I'm not so sure I want to hear Jagger on a song that kind of reminds me of “Start Me Up”, and of course Jagger takes the song over as he does any collab he works on (I suppose that's the point; not much sense him being there if he's not going to make his presence felt, but still). “Contact High” makes up for it bigtime, while the legendary John Fogerty adds his talents to the storming title track which almost recalls his own band's anti-war anthem, “Fortunate Son”.
Paisley then has a go at internet culture in “Selfie#theinternetisforever” - clever song which really captures the zeitgeist of the twenty-first century with a great hook, and “Gold All Over the Ground” namechecks Johnny Cash as a co-writer, so I can't say, but I wonder if it's a version of one of his songs, perhaps rewritten by Paisley? Good song anyway with one of my favourites, mandolin, and I see at the end there's some recording of Cash talking, so maybe that's why. Great banjo in “Solar Powered Girl”, really bluegrass feel to it and another great track is the ballad “The Devil is Alive and Well”. Excellent album; another country star to add to my list. Again, eat it, Alee!
Check out more from this artist? Oh yes
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes
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