Brad Paisley was honored Thursday night in Nashville, Tennessee at an event to celebrate his exhibit at the Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum. Brad Paisley: Diary Of A Player opens officially Friday November 18th and runs until May 14th 2017. The exhibition will include 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. Artifacts will celebrate Brad’s reputation as an inspired guitarist, who blends technical mastery with whimsical imagination. Items in the exhibit also will illustrate his connections to many of his guitar heroes, including Chet Atkins, James Burton, Little Jimmy Dickens, John Jorgenson, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, and Don Rich of the Buckaroos. 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

  Brad Paisley jokes about the introduction he got from Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum CEO Kyle Young at the opening of his Diary Of A Player exhibit. (:30)
“Well…holy cow. I was like ‘Who’s this Brad Paisley guy? When did he die?’ That’s what I felt like looking at the exhibit the first time, it’s like ‘Well, we’re gonna miss him.’ It’s really weird to see things that should’ve meant nothing to anyone actually seem important when they’re put behind glass in the greatest music museum in the world.”

  Brad Paisley talks about some of the earliest equipment that he used to kick of his music career that is now displayed in his exhibit of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. (:23)
“There’s a box that has a Jamboree USA sticker on it, and a bunch of others…it looks like it’s traveled the world, it really only traveled to surrounding states. It was all I needed for a gig…was in this blue box, you’ll see it, and it was a cable and a cowboy hat, a couple of guitar pedals, and probably some chewing gun.”

  As he stood in the rotunda of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Brad Paisley still can’t believe the road that his life has taken all because of a guitar given to him by his grandfather. (: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 the first guitar, which is in this display, which is that Silvertone with the amp in the case, and my grandfather so excited to give me this used piece of his history as a Christmas gift…which was just cheap on his part. The idea that I would start playing that, and develop goals and dreams  that would lead me to stand in this circle today is crazy.”

These are pictures from the opening night event for Brad Paisley: Diary Of A Player at the Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum. (click the description for the picture)

The banner for Brad Paisley’s exhibit

Brad Paisley speaking at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Brad Paisley’s very first guitar given to him by his grandfather

The description card for the Silvertone that Brad Paisley received as a kid

The blue case that Brad Paisley first used when traveling to shows

A flyer for a Jamboree USA show featuring a young Brad Paisley