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Track Listing
1. Huckleberry Jam
2. Turf's Up
3. Start A Band - (featuring Keith Urban)
4. Kim
5. Departure
6. Come On In - (featuring Buck Owens)
7. Kentucky Jelly
8. Playing With Fire
9. More Than Just This Song - (featuring Steve Wariner)
10. Les Is More
11. Pre-Cluster Cluster Pluck Prequel [Prelude]
12. Cluster Pluck - (featuring James Burton/John Jorgenson/Redd Volkaert/Steve Wariner/Vince Gill/Albert Lee/Brent Mason)
13. Cliffs Of Rock City
14. Let The Good Times Roll - (featuring B.B. King)
15. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
16. Waitin' On A Woman - (featuring Andy Griffith)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Albert Lee, Andy Griffith, B.B. King, Brent Mason, Buck Owens, James Burton, John Jorgenson, Keith Urban, Redd Volkaert, Steve Wariner, Vince Gill | | Producer: | Brian David Willis, Frank Rogers | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Brad Paisley (electric guitar, baritone guitar, mandolin, bass guitar); Manny Rogers, Snoop Dogg (vocals); Robert Arthur (acoustic guitar); Gary Hooker (electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar); James Burton, John Jorgensen, Keith Urban, Steve Wariner, Vince Gill, Albert Lee (electric guitar); Randel Currie (steel guitar); Kendal Marcy (banjo, keyboard); Aubrey Haynie, Justin Williamson (fiddle); Frank Rogers, Bernie Herms, Gordon Mote (piano); Jim "Moose" Brown (Farfisa, Hammond b-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ); Kevin "Swine" Grantt (upright bass, bass guitar); Ben Sesar, Brian David Willis (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Wes Hightower, Kenny Lewis (background vocals); Chris O'Donnell, Nick Michaud, Drew Bollmann, John Harvey, Justin Niebank, Steve Short, Greg Lawrence.
Recording information: Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN.
In an unusual move for an established country singer, Brad Paisley's PLAY is a primarily instrumental album that puts its focus entirely on Paisley's underrated guitar work. Far from being a traditional country album, or even a contemporary country-pop album, PLAY works in a wide variety of genres, including Les Paul-style jazz, ripping surf rock, old-fashioned electric Chicago blues, and metal-tinged rock & roll.
Paisley also assembles quite a list of guest stars: a re-recording of an early hit features a guest appearance by the actor Andy Griffith, while the Bakersfield country rocker "Come On In" features the late Buck Owens and a bluesy take on "Let the Good Times Roll" welcomes B.B. King. Two vocal tracks, "Start A Band" and "More Than Just This Song," feature Keith Urban and Steve Warriner, respectively, while the epic "Cluster Pluck" is a tongue-in-cheek high-speed dash through the history of country guitar showcasing James Burton, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, and four other guitarists besides. PLAY is a detour, but a worthwhile one.
Industry Reviews
Paisley's guitar rolls and tumbles like an Olympic gymnast, trading licks with the pedal steel and banjo.
3 stars out of 5 -- [Paisley is a] hell of a guitar player, a talent emphasized on his sixth album -- mostly instrumental set of surf jams, countrified picking, jazzy filigrees and all-out riffage...
3 stars out of 5 -- PLAY sees Nashville superstar Paisley jam with an array of equally adroit pickers...
'Turf's Up' is an impressive tribute to the surf instrumentals of early rock'n'roll. 'Come On In,' a duet with Owens, is a pleasant find and fitting tribute.
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