It’s been a big week for Brad Paisley! Brad’s new album, This Is Country Music, released on Monday, the same day that he hit number-one on the radio with his 19th chart-topper, “Old Alabama,” featuring supergroup Alabama. Along with the title track, “Old Alabama” is now the second huge hit from Brad’s new album, and there are still another 13 amazing songs on the record that fans are just now getting to hear. Brad tells us that making albums is always a process and an evolution from one to the next, but he’s very happy with the way that This Is Country Music turned out. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Brad and Alabama were making the TV rounds this week, and if you missed their appearance on Good Morning America, you can see it here, and follow the additional links on the page for interview footage, as well as Brad’s web-exclusive performance of “This Is Country Music.”
• And have you seen the way-cool video for “Old Alabama”? Check it out on Brad’s homepage at bradpaisley.com!

  Brad Paisley says that he’s really happy with his new album, This Is Country Music. (:42)
“We figured a few things out over the course of these records, and we’re always trying to sonically improve them. I think this is one of the best sounding records I’ve ever made, this album. Things pop the way that I wanted them to. And this album, I recorded it thinking I had…having an old Martin acoustic guitar that’s a very special guitar to me, that I wrote most of the songs on, in one hand and a Buck Owens telecaster in another. In these songs, you feel that. It’s that…that guitar sort of starts them, the tele takes a solo, there’s the fiddle and steel, and the things fill in the gaps, and the mix feels a little bit like somehow a modern version of some of those old Buck records, just the crispness of it.”