Miller extended an invitation to the young guitarist to play on the station's Saturday night show Jamboree USA, and his initial appearance was so well received he was asked to become a regular on the broadcast. His first real break arrived when his junior high school principal invited Paisley to play at the local Rotary Club, where Tom Miller, the program director of WWVA, one of the major country radio stations in the market, heard him. The student and pupil joined forces with a couple of Goddard's pals to form Brad Paisley & the C-Notes around this time, the budding guitarist also began writing his own songs. Within two years, Paisley gave his first public performance at a local church, and around that time he started getting guitar lessons from Clarence 'Hank' Goddard. Paisley remained at the top of Billboard's Country charts through 2014's 'Perfect Storm,' after which time the young gun started his transition into an elder statesman, a process that included such unexpected collaborators as Demi Lovato and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who appeared on the 2023 single 'Same Here.'īorn in Glen Dale, West Virginia on October 28, 1972, Brad Paisley began playing guitar at the age of eight when his grandfather gave him a Silvertone Danelectro. American Saturday Night was his fifth number one album on the Billboard country chart - the streak started with his third album, 2003's Mud on the Tires his first five albums all went platinum as well - and he had 13 number one country singles, including such modern country staples as 'I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song),' 'Mud on the Tires,' 'The World,' 'She's Everything,' 'Ticks,' and 'I'm Still a Guy,' a varied collection of songs that showcased his wry humor, hard-earned sentimentality, and prowess as a guitarist.

This sense of adventure could be heard on 2009's American Saturday Night, a big-hearted and eclectic record that won crossover acclaim, but by the time of its release, Paisley was no stranger to the top of the charts. The preeminent male country artist to emerge in the 2000s, Brad Paisley cannily blended the past with the present, paying constant tribute to his forefathers - when he reached the top of the charts, he still found space for Little Jimmy Dickens and George Jones in his videos - while pushing the music forward into the new millennium, expanding its sonic and thematic possibilities.

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