Brad Paisley breaks the pattern

A patriot for changing times, Brad Paisley decides his music has room to grow and dives hat first into 'American Saturday Night.' By Randy Lewis | Tribune Newspapers In the decade since country singer Brad Paisley put out his debut album, the kid from Glen Dale, W.Va., has concocted a savvy musical amalgam of Roger Miller's songwriting wit, Buck Owens' hard-rocking twang and Chet Atkins' guitar wizardry. But there's evidence of another influence at work in Paisley's music, one of the titans of American popular culture: Mark Twain. Like Twain's literary hero Tom Sawyer, Paisley frequently couples wisdom with a finely honed sense of humor, and appears to share Huck Finn's disenchantment with the emphasis that all those grown-ups around him place on becoming "sivilized." In hits such as "Online," "Celebrity" and "Ticks," he has... [read full story]                    

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