The third of Brad Paisley's albums, "Mud On The Tires" was released by Arista Nashville on July 22, 2003, most of the songs were written while he was dating Kim Williams, the actress from "Father of the Bride". This was where he first started to experiment with songs about non-country topics, or just songs from a different perspective. I don't really like it quite as much as either of his first two.
Track One - Mud On The Tires - New truck, wide outdoors calling...it's time for a camping trip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6nxHNrIwJA (Average video.)
Track Two - Celebrity - His lampooning of the whole concept of celebrities. Pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mpDAJOPac (Video is okay.)
Track Three - Ain't Nothin' Like - Kind of bland, along the lines of Lonestar's "My Front Porch Lookin' In", except not anywhere as good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UCgh8MGvk
Track Four - Little Moments - He wrote this for Kim. It's a little oversappy, but still pretty good. Very down-to-earth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBErCVNP6rM (Boring video. I like the old couple, though.)
Track Five - That's Love - Okay, well, if "Little Moments" is the courtship phase, "That's Love" is marriage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBErCVNP6rM
Track Six - Somebody Knows You Now - A less-than-captivating tale of regret. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iP-dZS5zWU
Track Seven - Famous People - Brilliant songwriting. A famous movie star stops in at a southern Ohio/northern Kentucky gas station, i's a great use of double meanings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWLUdrfaPSw
Track Eight - Hold Me In Your Arms(And Let Me Fall) - Just....really typical. Kind of filler, not really anytihng special. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SDqIsXgmgA
Track Nine - Whiskey Lullaby - Duet with Allison Krauss, it's a pathetic song, not really that good content, either, but...wow, is it ever well-told. Very gripping. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk (Long video...)
Track Ten - The Best Thing I Had Goin' - Twangier version of "I've Been Better" from his first CD, and for that reason, better. A guy realizes in his quest for 'stuff' to make his life successful, he lost what really matters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE1yRqYhHsA
Track Eleven - The Cigar Song - He heard this story somewhere, and decided it might make a good song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cor7Kk6FESc
Track Twelve - Make A Mistake - Hmm. Cloudy skies on this message. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs0VMty7pic
Track Thirteen - Is It Raining At Your House - I guess this is a cover of a 1988 song by somebody, pretty self-explanatory lyrically. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yn09uoE-9Q
Track Fourteen is an instrumental called "Spaghetti Western Swing", I couldn't find any videos of it on YouTube.
Track Fifteen - Farther Along - Good song. Either an old hymn from somewhere, or an old gospel tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ9JW41Lv8s
There's a couple great songs on here, but mostly clunkers. I guess my rankings would be:
15 - Hold Me In Your Arms(And Let Me Fall)
14 - Ain't Nothin' Like
13 - Is It Raining At Your House
12 - Make A Mistake
11 - Spaghetti Western Swing
10 - Somebody Knows You Now
9 - The Best Thing I Had Goin'
8 - Mud On The Tires
7 - The Cigar Song
6 - Celebrity
5 - Whiskey Lullaby
4 - Little Moments
3 - Farther Along
2 - That's Love
1 - Famous People.
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