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  Brad Paisley's 'Accidental Racist'-Spawning, 'SNL'-Mocked Album Will Chart

  April 15, 2013 – Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's "Accidental Racist" might not have sparked quite the conversation its creators intended, but the widely mocked country-rap song continues to draw attention.The album that contains that clunky miscue, Wheelhouse, has "16 other rather good songs," according to SPIN's reviewer Jason Gubbels. …
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  Brad Paisley, 'Wheelhouse' (Arista Nashville)

  April 10, 2013 – If you can remember as far back as, oh, Sunday, a mere 24 hours before the world stumbled across an ungainly farrago entitled "Accidental Racist," Brad Paisley's career was a nearly unbroken string of accomplishments. Following his 2001 induction into the Grand Ole Opry as its youngest-ever member, he lodged 21 No. …
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  Brad Paisley Unrepentant About 'Accidental Racist,' His Cringe-Inducing LL Cool J Collab

  April 9, 2013 – After stepping clumsily into the often-heated national discourse about race, Brad Paisley isn't backing down.Yesterday, social media buzzed with mockery of Paisley's new collaboration with LL Cool J, "Accidental Racist," which, admittedly is a horrendously awkward attempt to reconcile "Southern pride" with our enduring national shame of slavery. …
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  Dissecting Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's Politely Toxic Dud 'Accidental Racist'

  April 8, 2013 – Country-rap conversation-starter "Accidental Racist," from Brad Paisley's new album Wheelhouse (out tomorrow), is a plastic-sounding Nashville facsimile fitted with rudimentary nods to hip-hop production — electronic drums tug along the almost six-minute song, while its studio effects-soaked sound vaguely nods to record scratching. That's the best you can say about it. …
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  Katy Perry, fun., and Usher Add to Obama Inauguration's Huge Pop Presence

  January 11, 2013 – At least one closely watched ceremony this year other than the Grammy Awards will have a whole lot of pop music. While yesterday's Academy Awards nominations once again passed over several songs arguably more reflective of the pop zeitgeist, President Barack Obama's second-term inauguration continues to bring out the heavy hitters. …
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  Brad Paisley, 'This Is Country Music' (Arista Nashville)

  May 24, 2011 – Paying penance, perhaps, for 2009's social-utopian American Saturday Night, Nashville's savviest superstar goes just-folks with a vengeance on This Is Country Music, the title track of which compares its subject to "a road that takes you home." Yet because Paisley writes with such song-doctor finesse -- "You looked like the cover of Brides magazine," he sings in "Love Her Like She's Leavin'," "and I looked like some guy in a tux" -- sma …
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• Brad Paisley, 'American Saturday Night' (Arista Nashville)

  August 25, 2009 – Nashville's number-one guy is its most consistent superstar: On American Saturday Night, Paisley extends a hot streak began with 2003's Mud on the Tires, singing about regular life in the USA wit and charm that make suburbs sound like heaven on earth. He even offers the first great country of the Age of Obama two-part "Welcome Future," where civil rights and goodnight kisses point the way toward better tomorrow. BUY: iTunesAmazon  …
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