Time Well Wasted

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From the beginning, Brad Paisley was typecast as a great hope of traditional country—the kind of guy who could carry the torch for George Strait, Garth Brook, Randy Travi, and George Jone. His songs were funny, warm, and fresh, but also indifferent to trend. In a landscape about to be filled with baseball hat, Paisley hung on to his Stetson. On his first few album, you could hear the gears turning. By 2005’s <i>Time Well Wasted</i>, it became second nature. Like Strait and Brook, Paisley’s songs had an offhand brilliance, familiar enough to make you feel like you’d heard them before, but novel enough to remind you that you hadn’t. Traditional, ye, but never nostalgic. Instead, Paisley treated evergreen subjects—romance (“Waitin’ on a Woman”), youth (“Out In the Parkin’ Lot,” with Alan Jackson), spiritual salvation (“Where I Get Where I’m Going,” featuring Dolly Parton), and terrestrial pleasure (“Alcohol”)—like the same human preoccupations they’d been in country music for a hundred year. .

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