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| Popmatters |
 Only a minute or so into Brad Paisley’s new album, the singer evokes the album’s title. “This is country music,” he declares, and he delivers the line with equal parts pride and resignation. What “this” actually refers to can mean the very song he’s singing, the sensibility of the entire genre in general, or where country music finds itself at this particular moment in history.These are broad strokes with which to paint, and it takes confidence to step up and declare oneself a spokesman with the ability to define an entire genre. But Brad Paisley has a unique ability to do that very thing without disclosing an ounce of cockiness or sounding anything other than genuine. One way Paisley gets away with such reach is his recent track record as an artist. 2009’s American Saturday Night was one of the decade’s best country records, and if Paisley had built up enough capital as an Entertainer of the Year to make him a legend in the making, This Is Country Music should seal the deal for a future Hall of Famer at the peak of his powers. Even for an album tailor-made to be a slick modern-country-radio blockbuster, it’s impossible to ignore how good the songs are… all of them....full text |
| Billboard |
| Country Music has sometimes been described as three chords and the truth, but leave it to Brad Paisley to demonstrate just how much more expansive the genre can be on his new album, "This is Country Music." Produced by his longtime collaborator Frank Rogers, Paisley's ninth album pays tribute to the influences that have shaped the West Virginia native's hit-laden career, and some are refreshingly unexpected, including the homage to surf guitar legend Dick Dale, "Working on a Tan," and the nod to Italian composer Ennio Morricone on the western instrumental "Eastwood."...full text |
| Slantmagazine |
| Brad Paisley's This Is Country Music includes a few moments of genuine brilliance that punctuate a whole lot of genre pastiche and audience-pandering. Nomally, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year wouldn't need to shout his allegiances to traditional country-music standards and values as loudly as he does here, but Paisley rocked a few boats among his core fanbase with the more progressive politics of his last album, American Saturday Night. This Is Country Music is something of a course-correction, an appeal to the country genre's formal conservatism and a record that, in its best moments, showcases the depth and insight that country music can offer. The album's title track finds Paisley opining that country music is the exclusive domain of songs about Jesus and cancer, directly addressing his audience by saying, "This is real/This is your life/In a song." To that end, "This Is Country Music" works far better as a thesis than it does as a song. Considering the song's uninspired melody and production, and how Paisley blatantly ignores the whole of popular music when claiming his home genre's superiority of subject matter (offhand, I can think of more rap than country songs that mention cancer, and just as many R&B songs with overt Christian themes), "This Is Country Music" is one of the weakest singles of Paisley's career. But his use of just a few lines of this song as a recurring motif throughout This Is Country Music is a smart, incredibly effective way to give the album structure....full text |
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