{"id":9855,"date":"2013-05-08T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9855"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:39:51","slug":"brad-paisley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/brad-paisley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAD PAISLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9856\" alt=\"Brad-Paisley-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Brad-Paisley-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Brad-Paisley-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Brad-Paisley-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>BRAD PAISLEY<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Wheelhouse\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Arista Nashville]<\/p>\n<p>Since upping the ante with the musically and lyrically progressive <i>American Saturday Night<\/i> in 2009, Brad Paisley has positioned himself as a guitar-slinging messiah sent here to abolish a rift between red and blue states. He directly addresses that divide multiple times on <i>Wheelhouse<\/i>, a hodgepodge of pop culture references and patriotic salutes. On the bluesy \u201cAccidental Racist,\u201d notable for a bizarre spoken-word bridge by LL Cool J, he asks his faithful flock to move past their preconceptions. On the piano ballad \u201cThose Crazy Christians,\u201d meanwhile, he praises religious faith. Originally launched as a staunch traditionalist, Paisley now downplays his steel-and-fiddle style in favor of funky guitar riffs and walloping drums. Though he remains one of Nashville\u2019s most musically literate artists, offering everything from surf-pop to soft rock, some of the old homespun magic is missed. <i>Wheelhouse<\/i> may be a bid for equality, but it\u2019s his most\u00a0polarizing move yet. \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAD PAISLEY Wheelhouse\u00a0 [Arista Nashville] Since upping the ante with the musically and lyrically progressive American Saturday Night in 2009, Brad Paisley has positioned himself as a guitar-slinging messiah sent here to abolish a rift between red and blue states. He directly addresses that divide multiple times on Wheelhouse, a hodgepodge of pop culture references [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1965,1963,6467,6543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9857,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9855\/revisions\/9857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}