Brad Paisley

What I like in music varies all over the place. I liked this guy before but have more respect for him after I listened to this about his music and his latest about veterans.

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/24/525241930/brad-paisley-on-love-and-war-dialogue-and-protest

Excerpt of the Interview:
Brad Paisley is a country megastar: Since his debut in 1999, he's sold 12 million records and had 23 No. 1 hits. He's a great singer and a monster guitar player who's always had a way with lyrics and timing. That's evident throughout his new album, Love And War, which has its fair share of fun, witty moments.

But the title track is dead serious. It's a collaboration with Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty, who wrote one of the most potent protest songs of the Vietnam era.

"He's a huge influence on me," Paisley says, "and, I think, the voice of a generation. And so one time, we sat down and I said, 'Why don't you come to Tennessee for a couple of days, and we'll do this right.' And I have this thing I want to say, and that's that I think we are really letting our veterans down."

Fogerty, it turns out, was game.

"I said, 'I know you went there back in the Vietnam era — do you want to go there again?' " Paisley remembers. "And he said, 'Yeah, I do.' "

The result, "Love And War," is a song about two generations of veterans, both treated unjustly by the country they fought for.

Accidental Racist," a collaboration with LL Cool J, which tried to reconcile Southern pride with the region's legacy of racism through a dialogue between the two artists. Many critics found it flat-footed, if well-intentioned, and Paisley says he learned from the incident.

"I was very naïve in thinking that we could write something that would feel the same way that other topics feel when you discuss them," he says. "When you discuss racism, it's almost a no-win scenario — but I don't think that means we shouldn't be discussing it..."

 

Thanks for sharing. I gotta listen to those songs. I like BP.

 

Glad to!