{"id":1310312,"date":"2019-05-15T11:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1806718"},"modified":"2019-05-15T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:06:24","slug":"brad-paisley-the-vineyard-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/brad-paisley-the-vineyard-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Paisley: The Vineyard Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">32m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/brad-paisley\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Paisley<\/a>\u2019s been everywhere, man. County fairs, country festivals, arenas, amphitheaters, stadiums and bars. But a winery? This was a first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done a few things here and there that kind of remind me of this, but not like this,\u201d Paisley told me when we talked backstage (backvineyard?) before his Live in the Vineyard Goes Country show on Tuesday night (May 14). \u201cThis is a different thing. How beautiful is this? And I think people will even be sitting on hay bales while I play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, the conversation turned to his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and the love song she\u2019d most recently inspired: Paisley\u2019s brand new \u201cMy Miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EF7-a5S97Y?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EF7-a5S97Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>CMT.com: I\u2019ve heard you say that this song was the most powerful statement you could make and you feel like this time you got it right. But it\u2019s not the first time you\u2019ve written a song about Kimberly, so what makes this one The One?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paisley: It\u2019s just that I\u2019ve written my share of the ones that make fun of her cooking and her driving. Or ones where I\u2019d leave her for fishing. You know what I\u2019m saying? Those songs that sort of that make fun of relationships. Like \u201cLittle Moments.\u201d That\u2019s one of my wife\u2019s favorites, because I wasn\u2019t sappy in it. And because we were dating when I wrote it. She laughed on the first line, because she had really done those things. And she grew into that song. But you know, every now and then, you come up with an idea for what you can say that\u2019s more deserving. And I like the poetry of this song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me about your co-writer on this one, Gary Nicholson. This was the first time the two of you wrote together, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. This was the first. Gary is a great, legendary country songwriter. He had helped me find a guitar at a guitar show. He pointed me to this old Gibson acoustic, and I said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t I pay you back somehow?\u201d And he said, \u201cJust write a song with me.\u201d So he came over and we used that guitar to write this song. The song was in that guitar. It\u2019s kind of the purest way you could get together and write a song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think that a love song can reflect the years that that love has been around? You\u2019ve been married for 16 years, and I\u2019m wondering if this song is somehow more powerful and meaningful because of that?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I think it is. Looking back is always a very powerful thing for any of us. You look back, and you see evidence of things you wouldn\u2019t have expected, or how your life is better now. I think that the right woman in a man\u2019s life can make every bit of difference. I mean, there\u2019s a long list of men who are better because of the women in their lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This song is on the radio now, exactly 20 years after your very first song was released. How have you changed since the day \u201cWho Needs Pictures\u201d debuted?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say I\u2019ve changed a lot. I have people who would say, \u201cHe\u2019s still the same guy.\u201d But no, I\u2019m not. Not in any way. No one is after that amount of time. In some ways I\u2019m better, and in some ways I\u2019m worse. But you know what? It\u2019s been fun. Everything about it has been good, and I wouldn\u2019t change much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has your music changed, in those twenty years?<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Well, on my first couple albums, I think that there was a kind of purity and a rigid sort of set of rules and stylistic guidelines. I was like, \u201cI\u2019m not doing this or this or this, and I\u2019m going to make sure I check this box and this box, and it\u2019s very traditional.\u201d I never would have done those crazy guitar parts at that point or songs like \u201cTicks.\u201d And then eventually, that evolved into making sure there\u2019s a piece of that tradition in whatever I\u2019m doing, but I can do other things, too. Stylistically, the music now is a little bit more progressive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about country music in general? It has to have changed since you were the rookie releasing your first batch of songs in early 1999, when your debut album not only introduced you to country fans but also shared four chart-topping singles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think country music has mostly changed in a technological sense. It goes through these periods of change stylistically, but it\u2019s like a river that weaves through this area and it kind of winds left and right, left and right, but it still stays in its area. But now we\u2019re all just lost as far as the technology and the way to monetize it. Technology is moving so fast that we\u2019re just trying to figure it out. It used to just be about: make a really great album, release a couple singles, and hope it sells. Now we\u2019re trying new things and oh wait, what\u2019s this new app that everybody\u2019s using? Let\u2019s put the song there and see how that goes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWM5P2GgT_E?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWM5P2GgT_E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>What memory stands out most from your 1999, when you were cutting songs and playing shows? And when 20 years ago, almost to this day, you played the Grand Ole Opry for the first time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After that show at the Opry, I walked over to Jimmy Dickens backstage and said, \u201cDo you want to go fishing some time with me?\u201d He said, \u201cSure. When? I\u2019m free this week.\u201d We didn\u2019t know each other at all. I was just some guy singing on the Opry. I could\u2019ve been anybody. But I picked him up at 7:30 on that Monday morning. He was just standing outside at his mailbox.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"7b7ef369\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/GettyImages-50380437-1557938726.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Brad Paisley\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Laura Farr<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For instant reminiscing, go directly to the 4:30 mark to watch Paisley\u2019s two-song set.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FuGfpo0QdUI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FuGfpo0QdUI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1806718\/brad-paisley-the-vineyard-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 32m ago Brad Paisley\u2019s been everywhere, man. County fairs, country festivals, arenas, amphitheaters, stadiums and bars. But a winery? This was a first. \u201cI\u2019ve done a few things here and there that kind of remind me of this, but not like this,\u201d Paisley told me when we talked backstage (backvineyard?) before his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1310312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 12:57:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}