Album Description Brad Pailey won his first GRAMMY Award in 2008 for Best Country Instrumental Performance and he is believes in 'more music, less talk' with his 2008 album, Play, which promises to increase axes across the board, alongside some of the guitar world's great heroes. Featuring guest vocal and musical collaborations with B.B. King, Keith Urban, Steve Wariner, and Buck Owens.
Brad PaisleyFebruary 15, 2010 J. K. Jackson(Grass Valley, CA USA) Talented musician & songwriter who gives God the glory! I like it when people recognize the Source of their abilities.
No what I expectedJanuary 7, 2010 John Not what I expected or wanted in a Brad Paisley album. 3/4 of the tracks are instrumental. The instrumentals are well done but not of interest to me.
You just WISH your tele sounded this good!October 14, 2009 R. Highsmith(Palm Beach Florida) I don't hear from my old band mates very often. We're all too busy with our new careers, wives, etc. When two of them called on the same day to tell me that I needed to hear something, I woke up and bought the CD. Yeah, I know no one gets their music this way now, but old habits...
Brad Paisley pays his respects to major influences, and tears it up new at the same time. I don't think he held anything back, and that probably will make most non-musicians wonder what alternate universe some of these songs came from. Surf music/ Chet Atkins/Merle Travis arrangements, and then the guests show up.
The line up is so strong that you will only think of a couple of more names you wish were invited, but only one or two could have added anything important. For me its always been about tone, and this effort has it in spades. I could not ask for a better guitar range of motion, played by the best of the best. BB King and Andy were just icing on the cake. The tele masters all conspire to show you what you missed by not practicing enough when you were 12. If you own (or ever owned) a blonde tele, dyna comp pedal, and a tweed twin, and have not bought this one, you're running late like I was.
Bonafide Guitar Hero StrikesOctober 5, 2009 D. Rubin(New York, NY USA) Brad Paisley comes from the "country" but "rocks" Nashville to the rafters with this mostly instrumental outing. Though he has never been one to hide his talent "under a bushel basket," on this 2008 release he literally pulls out all the stops with the hottest chicken pickin' this side of James Burton and Albert Lee (both of whom appear on the devastating "Cluster Pluck") along with big bore rockers like "Cliffs of Rock City." An absolute must for guitar players, who will be both humbled and awed, as well as fans of the kind of catchy instrumentals rarely heard since the eighties.
"Pop" country it ain't.....September 9, 2009 R. F Farine(Delmont, PA) ...and that's what's so good about it. This is a mostly instrumental CD featuring some of the finest pickers around. I have one other Paisley CD and I only got it for the instumental duet he does with Tele-master Redd Volkaert (who also appears on this CD). Anyone who does not like this collection needs to forget the "pop country, all-sounds-the-same" crap coming out of Nashville these days and listen to some true Musicians.
