The weekend arrives on Tuesday this week with the June 30th release of Brad Paisley‘s new album, American Saturday Night! It hasn’t even hit stores, but already it’s delivered one of Brad’s biggest hits with his huge number-one smash, “Then.” The song became the 14th chart-topper of Brad’s career — and his 10th in a row! — and as Brad unveils his eighth album, he tells us it’s his most personal yet. “There’s been songs in albums before that were personal, but this album, you know, it’s how I feel.” And while he certainly intends for fans to have fun with the record, Brad says, “I feel like this album is finding my soul…a little more than the others.” (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• The album arrives on Tuesday, but you’ve still got a chance to get in on a good thing early as iTunes continues its three-week countdown to release day! This week, “Everybody’s Here” becomes the third pre-release album track available now, exclusively on iTunes. Brad says it’s a fun song to sing…at least now, when his days of living the song’s storyline are happily in the past. In addition to “Everybody’s Here,” fans can also go to iTunes to pick up digital singles for “Water” and title track “American Saturday Night,” as well as “Then.” The purchase of any or all of the digital singles will count toward a discount when you buy the full album through iTunes’ Complete My Album feature! (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
• Be watching for Brad all over the place! Among other things, he’ll be playing the summer concert series for ABC’s Good Morning America on July 3rd! He’ll be on the cover of Country Weekly — in the issue on sale Monday, June 29th — and watch for him on GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown this Friday and GAC Nights on Tuesday!
• Brad says that he and his producer really wanted to create the feel of the album title — a true American Saturday Night — so you’ll hear a few more voices than usual on this album. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

  Brad Paisley says his new album, American Saturday Night, is his most personal yet. [bite one of two] (:42)
“There’s been songs in albums before that were personal, but this album, you know, it’s how I feel. It’s like, I said I feel like this album is finding my soul…a little more than the others. You know, it’s like going and finding my soul. And then it’s also sort of like, it’s a little more of…you could subtitle it, ‘We Mean It.’ (laughs) You know what I mean? We mean everything we do, but, you know, when you got ‘Ticks’ and ‘Online,’ and so I was like that on the last few records. It’s like, well, yeah, we mean it, we’re havin’ a good time, but you know, they’re all in good fun. This one is meant…I hope you have fun. I think you will, but we mean it.”

  Brad Paisley says his new album, American Saturday Night, is his most personal yet. [bite two of two] (:29)
“I would say that this record is as personal as I’ve ever gotten, and it’s as honest as I can be. And I think that they will find a week in the life, essentially, captured in this record, and more than that, I mean, you know, but reflections on sort of a week in the life of a person who lives and breathes in America on any given weekend on a Saturday night.”

  Brad Paisley and his album producer Frank Rogers really wanted to create a record that had the feel of the album title. (:35)
“That’s the thing about an album called American Saturday Night. It needs to feel like that. It needs to feel like an event, a gathering. And that’s what this album was, you know? And these crowd parts, Frank and I were like, ‘You know, this is the most we’ve ever done this.’ Every other album had maybe one, and he said, ‘Yeah, I think it’s important.’ He said, ‘I think it is what this album is, to some degree.’ And it’s how the album was written. It was written in a group, essentially. That’s how it was recorded. It was a group effort by a lot of different people, and it reflects that in the production of it.”

  Brad Paisley talks about album track, “Everybody’s Here.” (:30)
“It’s really a fun thing to sing about that now that I’m past it, now that I don’t go to parties heartbroken. It’s fun to sing about those days when you did, when you dated somebody for a long time, and they’re like, ‘Come on! You gotta come out! Everybody’s here!’ (laughs) You know? And you go and somebody talks you…everybody who’s ever had a break-up, I think, goes out too soon. At some…whenever it is that they first go out again, maybe it’s just that the first time, whenever it is, even if it’s two years later, is too soon.”