Paisley's New Album Picks Apart Genre: ; W.Va. Lived It

Charleston Daily Mail › June 02, 2011

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FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Brad Paisley began the journey to country music stardom by spending hours in a room with a guitar endlessly trying to figure out how to make the sounds on his favorite songs.

Thirty years later he was still doing just that when Alabama's Randy Owen showed up at the studio last year with his battered old Music Man guitar. Paisley was using his telecaster to try and mimic that eerie, funky guitar sound Owen made on classics like "Mountain Music" that's almost as distinct as the band's rowdy harmonies.

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Paisley's New Album Picks Apart Genre: ; W.Va. Lived It

"Are you trying to play 'Mountain Music' there?" Owen asked Paisley.

Paisley, of course, denied it.

"Well, that ain't 'Mountain Music.' This is," Owen said.

"So he started playing ...

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