If you would like to see the Christmas present that started it all for Brad Paisley, you can head to the Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum in Nashville and check out Brad Paisley: Diary Of A Player. The exhibit, which runs through May of 2017, contains musical instruments, performance clothing, manuscripts, awards, photographs, childhood mementos (including early examples of Paisley’s talent for drawings and illustrations), and other items that shed light on Brad’s life and career. Among those is the very first Silvertone guitar that was given to Brad at Christmas when he was 8 years old. His grandfather Warren Jarvis, was an avid guitar player himself, and wanted to hand down to Brad something that he would be able to do all his life. Of course, little did Mr. Jarvis, or even Brad himself, know that, that simple gift would end up being a part of country music history. For more information on the Diary Of A Player exhibit, head on over to Country Music Hall Of Fame dot ORG, or just click HERE

  At the opening of his Hall Of Fame exhibit, Brad Paisley jokes about the gift his grandfather gave him that would lead to his future career. (:45)
“It’s crazy when you look back, and you see these things that I remember the dreams associated with each little item as I look back, I see…like, the first guitar…which is in this display, which is that Silvertone with the amp in the case. My grandfather was so excited to give me this used piece of his history as a Christmas gift, which was just cheap on his part (crowd laughs). The idea that, that I would start playing that and develop goals and dreams that would lead me to stand in this circle today is crazy.”