![]() ![]() “I think it’s wonderful I like being able to have Indian food for lunch, go to Lares on Pico for dinner or the Taj Palace in Pacific Palisades. “We are this place of transplants,” he continued. “You can name the reasons why you feel America is the greatest country in the world, but the fact of the matter is that pretty much anything you name, aside from American Indian customs, was not indigenous - it was brought here. “Patriotism in general is the idea that our country is the greatest because it’s our country,” Paisley said with a Twain-like edge on the observation. (The Paisley family, which also includes infant Jasper Warren, lives on an 85-acre farm outside of Nashville.) He and actress-wife Kim Williams named their first child William Huckleberry Paisley after Twain’s irreverent protagonist. “It’s definitely a different type of patriotism,” said Paisley, who doesn’t hesitate in citing Twain among his key role models. It’s like we’re all living’ in a big ol’ cup They’ve got a cooler full of cold Coronas and Amstel Light ![]() They got Canadian bacon on their pizza pie There’s a big toga party tonight down at Delta Chi “American Saturday Night” leads off the collection with the feel of an instant concert centerpiece, an upbeat singalong outlining the myriad threads in the fabric of the nation. He’s audibly proud when he talks about using his touring band in the studio rather than session players who create the majority of music that comes out of Nashville. The new album again blends his respect for country tradition with unexpected sonic touches (such as the ‘80s-sounding Moog synthesizer on “Welcome to the Future”). He’s tackled the subject of alcohol abuse from different vantage points in two hit songs, the whimsical “Alcohol” and the artistic punch to the gut “Whiskey Lullaby,” his award-winning duet with bluegrass queen Alison Krauss. In hits such as “Online,” “Celebrity” and “Ticks,” he’s proved to be a skillful sneak, slipping in the kind of clever ideas and wordplay that few of his peers at the top of the country sales charts dare to venture. Like Twain’s youthful literary hero Tom Sawyer, Paisley frequently couples wisdom with a finely honed sense of humor, and appears to share Huck Finn’s disenchantment with the emphasis that all those grown-ups around him place on becoming “sivilized.” But there’s powerful evidence of another influence at work in Paisley’s music, one of the titans of American popular culture: Mark Twain. In the decade since country singer Brad Paisley put out his debut album, the kid from Glen Dale, W.Va., has concocted a savvy musical amalgam of Roger Miller’s songwriting wit, Buck Owens’ hard-rocking twang and Chet Atkins’ guitar wizardry. ![]()
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