Part II (Brad Paisley album)

Part II
Studio album by Brad Paisley
Released	May 29, 2001
Recorded	The Castle - Franklin, TN
Genre	Country
Length	50:41
Label	Arista Nashville
Producer	Frank Rogers
Brad Paisley chronology
Who Needs Pictures (1999) Part II (2001) Mud on the Tires (2003)
Singles from Part II
"Two People Fell in Love" Released: March 19, 2001 "Wrapped Around" Released: August 20, 2001 "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" Released: February 25, 2002 "I Wish You'd Stay" Released: August 12, 2002

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[1]
Allmusic	[2]
Country Weekly	(favorable)[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[4]
People	(positive)[5]

Part II is the second studio album by American country music artist Brad Paisley. Released in 2001 on Arista Nashville, it became Paisley's second platinum-certified album in the United States. It produced four singles: "Two People Fell in Love", "Wrapped Around", "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" and "I Wish You'd Stay", which respectively reached number 4, number 2, number 1, and number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "Too Country" also entered the country charts from unsolicited airplay.

Written by Darrell Scott, "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" was also recorded by Patty Loveless on her 2001 album Mountain Soul and by Kathy Mattea on her 2008 album Coal. The song was featured in the FX TV series Justified.

This album was repackaged with Who Needs Pictures by Sony's Legacy division and released on September 23, 2008.

Background

The title for Paisley's second album as well as the songs on it were inspired by the movie, Father of the Bride Part II, the follow-up to the movie he went to see on his first date with a certain girl several years before his first record deal. They had long since broken up but when the sequel to the movie came out, Paisley couldn't help thinking about her. And wondering if she was thinking about him. "I ended up going to see (the sequel) on the exact day, at the exact same showing that we saw the first one," he says. "I did it on purpose thinking she might be there, too. Well, of course, she wasn't. No one is that psychotic except me."

Disappointed, Paisley channeled his feelings by writing a song with his best friend and frequent songwriting partner, Kelley Lovelace. "We started talking," Paisley says, "and the line came out: 'Hollywood never fails to make a sequel' and 'Why can't love be more like that?' Then, I remember thinking that (Part II) would be a really great title for a second album. And a great concept.^[6]" To emphasize the sequel theme, the album opens with strings playing "In the Garden", exactly as the previous album had ended.

This event was revisited on Paisley's 2009 album, American Saturday Night during a reprise of the song, "Welcome to the Future".

Track listing

Personnel

• Brad Paisley – lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 6-string Tic tac
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Ron Block – banjo
• Glen Duncan – fiddle
• Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar, upright bass
• Jim "Daddy" Heffernan – Dobro on "Two Feet of Topsoil", "Munster Rag" and "Too Country"
• Bernie Herms – piano, keyboards, B3 organ, string arrangements
• Wes Hightower – background vocals
• Gary Hooker – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Sonya Isaacs – background vocals on "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"
• Mike Johnson – steel guitar, Dobro
• Kenny Lewis – background vocals on "Too Country"
• Mitch McMitchen – percussion
• Darrell Scott – banjo, Dobro, mandolin & background vocals on "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"
• Ben Sesar – drums
• Justin Williamson – fiddle, mandolin
• Brian David Willis – guest percussion on "All You Really Need Is Love"

String arrangements on "I Wish You'd Stay" and "You Have That Effect on Me" by Carl Gorodetzky and The Nashville String Machine.

Chart performance

Album

Singles

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