You’ll see it in a song called “If He’s Anything Like Me,” which is about my son Huck and also this newest one. If the last album was looking back to high school, on this one I look back to who I became from a little boy on. What can people expect to hear on the new record? So I come off a stretch with a handful of ideas I think will work. I have the unique vantage point at the center of that stage every night and I see the very people that have become my fans. How do your live shows impact your songwriting? I didn’t realize at the time that I was hearing masterpieces pretty much one after the other on the radio. Steve Wariner had things on the radio like “Some Fools Never Learn” and “What I Didn’t Do,” and then there were bands like Restless Heart that were the pop side of things. Thinking about what was on the radio when I grew up and the way people wrote, it was a different time in country music. I even stumbled on stuff like Michael Johnson’s “The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder.” When we wrote this album, we went back and listened to a lot of old stuff that we still love, like Alabama. Mike Reid, Dean Dillon, Skip Ewing, Steve Wariner, Vince Gill and guys like Rodney Crowell. Kelley was upstairs by himself writing something that he and I and Chris had been working on. There was one night back in December, in the living room was me, Chris and Ashley finishing up “Then.” In the other room, Robert Arthur and Tim Owens were thinking of another first verse for a song we had written called “You Do The Math,” which is on the record. Between house and my house, we have this old guest house that I’ve converted into a studio and writing area. Certainly I would be steering the ship at this point, but it’s a lot of us working hard toward the end product. I rely on guys that I trust like Chris DuBois, Frank Rogers, Tim Owens and Kelley Lovelace, Ashley Gorley and Bill Anderson–just all these guys that throughout the years have become family. So they came their game faces on and just walked into every writing session prepared. I’ve got a great team that’s grown over the years, these guys I co-write with all the time, and they all knew I had an album coming up. I getaway from it, which I think is always healthy, otherwise you just don’t recharge.Īs it turned out, there are no outside cuts. I don’t really write a lot in the middle of touring and everything else. How do you approach getting ready to record a new album?īrad Paisley: We start every record the same way - we take a little time off. The West Virginia native and triple Grammy winner talked to Billboard about his “American Saturday Night” Tour, which kicks off Friday, June 5 in Charlotte, NC (go to Billboard’s Tour Finder for more info), and gave a sneak peek at his new material. But thanks to the bucolic boot camp he and his songwriter friends went through, “American Saturday Night” is more reflective than anything he’s done before. Paisley has long been Nashville’s sweetheart because of his ability to write both party songs and ballads perfect for radio.
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