European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 faces checking for ticks a cranking out hits Paisley blends gospel and instrumental in winning formula by John Gerome the associated press is Brad Paisley joking or is he serious its Tough to Tell this is the Guy with a hit song about a country boy wanting to Check a woman for but Paisley seems off guard when a reporter re fers to him As a mainstream country Star this while Hes relaxing in a Plush tour bus parked out Side a packed stadium where Hes about to its really bizarre for me to hear you say main Stream country Star regarding you know what i mean Paisley i feel like Ive arrived in some sense because there was a time when i won dered if id Ever be anything More than just a Niche you this Guy who plays sort of traditional country music and is forgotten the truth the Glen native arrived a few albums with his 5th out tues he seems at the top of his the first already hit 2 on the billboard country each of his four previous albums has sold at least a million with the last two going double spoke to the associated press recently about his his new baby boy and the Art of writing a funny you have humor in a lot of your Are the funny ones easier for you to write than the serious ones i dont know if there sometimes there harder to i think that for is a Way of making an album theres got to be a few of those for it to feel like one of my theres also got to be a few serious songs for it to feel like one of my i would never want to do a record of 10 funny humor can be hard to convey in whats the trick i think if s All in the its like its baiting the Hook and knowing when to set in you bait them and go All the Way Down the chorus to id like to walk you through a Field of wild i could have ended it then with so lets take a drive but that not setting the after id like to walk you through a Field of wildflowers the Ball is sitting on the so you swing and give it a line like and id like to Check you for you and your actress Kimberly Williams your first child in How is that reflected on this if at All it shows up a lot More than i thought it i really fought it because people would say its going to help your i dont know what youre talking but it definitely came not so much in songs about babies As in songs about you might be the Only contemporary country Star out there who puts five minute instrumental on your was there someone who inspired you to do that Buck i dont know if he did it on every but he had some buckaroo was a 1 he told me one time at he said Imi Tating if you get hot you can get a 1 record on an instrumental i these Are different youd have to be pretty Damn you also include a gospel track on All your Are you drawn to that music stylistically or spiritually theres nothing like a great gospel its the absolute form of Heartfelt blues or Heartfelt roots its the Stephen Chernin a Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus cyras9 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