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Track Listing
1. All I Wanted Was a Car
2. Ticks
3. Online
4. Letter To Me
5. I'm Still A Guy
6. Some Mistakes
7. It Did
8. Mr. Policeman
9. If Love Was a Plane
10. Oh Love - (with Carrie Underwood)
11. Better Than You
12. With You, Without You
13. Previously...
14. Bigger Fish To Fry - (with Whisperin' Bill Anderson/Little Jimmy Dickens/Vince Gill)
15. When We All Get To Heaven
16. Throttleneck
17. Waitin' on a Woman
18. [Untitled Track]
19. [Untitled Track]
Album Notes
Audio Mixer: Justin Niebank.
Recording information: Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN; The Castle, Franklin, TN; The Sound Kitchen, Franklin, TN.
Highlighted by the smash first single, "Ticks," a goofy-sexy ode to nudity al fresco, Brad Paisley's FIFTH GEAR maintains his string of albums neatly balanced between light pop-oriented material and more traditional country. The latter is best exemplified by the twangy guitar instrumental "Throttleneck," the reverent "When We All Get To Heaven," and the tuneful "Bigger Fish To Fry," featuring guest vocals by Vince Gill, Bill Anderson, and Little Jimmy Dickens.
Elsewhere, a lovely ballad duet with Carrie Underwood, "Oh Love," keeps an eye to Nashville's present as well as its past. As on most of Paisley's albums, the main lyrical topic, even more than the usual love songs, is what it means to be a man in contemporary America: "I'm Still A Guy" is perhaps the most obvious song on the topic, but the country rocker "Mr. Policeman," the wry character study "Online" (a song about Internet personas at odds with reality), and the surprisingly philosophical opener "All I Wanted Was A Car" flirt with the concept as well.
Industry Reviews
[T]he guy's a vivid nostalgist, and his duet with Carrie Underwood is a harmonic delight. -- Grade: B+
3 stars out of 5 -- Smart, low-profile Nashvillean Paisley's sixth album features not one but two songs about how adulthood beats adolescence.
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