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Brad Paisley - American Saturday Night
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| Paisley discs usually include instrumentals, comedy sketches, and gospel. Here, he drops that lovable detritus, going for constant home runs. Don't miss American Saturday Night's opening three-song stretch, and ''Welcome to the Future,'' which evokes Obama in assessing these as the days of miracle and wonder. A–...full text |
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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. It's not just the pile up of iPhones and international video chats on "Welcome to the Future," the first country anthem of the Obama era, it's how he'll pick up prescription for his girl and flips macho stereotypes on their head on "The Pants." He's a thoroughly modern man and that attitude helps invigorate his traditional country, a sensibility that's welcome on American Saturday Night, which veers toward the mellow despite its rollicking title track or the breakneck "Catch all the Fish" and the odd burst incongruous gurgling synth. On the whole, American Saturday Night is one of his dreamier albums, filled with swaying slow dances, sweet love tunes, and the occasional brokenhearted blues, all delivered with a worn-in ease. Paisley prevents things from getting too relaxed by juxtaposing his every-guy vocals with spitfire guitar, something that gooses even the sleepiest tempos, just like how he spikes his party tunes with sly humor. He never lets things get too serious or too maudlin, he cracks jokes at himself and his friends, he lets everybody into his Saturday night party, because he knows that what makes an American party -- and what makes America -- is how all the best things wash up on the U.S. shores. ...full text |
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“American Saturday Night,’’ Brad Paisley’s eighth studio record, isn’t technically a concept album, but it captures all the spirited emotions, from thrilling highs to rock-bottom lows, such an evening often entails. A decade into his career, Paisley has grown into a welcome addition to the contemporary country canon, a major star with an understated delivery and an enlightened songwriting perspective. He’s quickly becoming his generation’s George Strait; he’s just short a few dozen No. 1 hits. On “American Saturday Night,’’ more than on his previous efforts, there’s an easy charm to the songs that suggests Paisley relished recording them. It’s hard to remember the last time a Top 40 country album was so relaxed and shuffling yet still powerfully resonant and intimate. Crafting a sense of dynamics - both in his storytelling and the arrangements - has long been one of Paisley’s strengths. “American Saturday Night’’ continues that streak with meaty guitar solos punctuating the twangy melodies and extended instrumental passages closing out several of the songs. It’s very much a smartly produced album that, while adhering to the blueprint for commercial-radio country music, successfully lassos a loose party vibe....full text |
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