An American Saturday Night is not an unusual topic for a country song but Brad Paisley’s celebration is. Paisley sees a typical weekend night as a cultural collision of French kisses, Italian Ices, Canadian bacon and margaritas, a place where Mexican and Dutch beers chill side by side in a bucket of ice. If he leans too heavily on labels, referring to those beers by brand name, it’s merely a reflection of Paisley’s uncanny knack for capturing the casual contemporary details of American life at the tail end of the 2000s. – AMG
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REVIEW OF REVIEWS
My Brad Paisley advance album is ruined. That’s how good it is. Do you remember those days when you played an album over and over and over until it started scratching and skipping? But CDs are indestructible, right? Not if it’s so good that you play the hell out of it, like I’ve done with Brad Paisley’s American Saturday Night. This is his best album ever. No doubt. Hands down.
Mr. Paisley does collaborate with other writers, though on “American Saturday Night” his name is on every song and the record has an unmistakable unity of purpose. He plays with each title as common parlance and as metaphor and keeps sidestepping to it from a new angle. He lightens the word puzzles with humor, romance and his sweeping, ropy-toned electric guitar solos. He’s letting you know, perhaps, that he enjoys the process.
TRACKLIST
1. American Saturday Night
2. Everybody’s Here
3. Welcome To The Future
4. Then
5. Water
6. She’s Her Own Woman
7. Welcome To The Future (Reprise)
8. Anything Like Me
9. You Do The Math
10. No
11. Catch All The Fish
12. Oh Yeah, You’re Gone
13. The Pants
14. I Hope That’s Me
15. Back To The Future
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photo credit: Greg Stengel
photo credit: Greg Stengel
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