Paisley wanted fans to listen, so he shot a movie
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Brad Paisley will do anything to get fans to listen to an entire album front to back, even shooting an hour-long visual album featuring Mick Jagger, Timbaland, John Fogerty and an unfinished Johnny Cash song.
The Grammy-winning country singer, songwriter and guitarist shot sequences for each one of the 15 songs on his new record, “Love and War,” to make what he’s calling the first visual album in country music. The video is available for streaming on Apple Music.
Paisley said he used the album as a script for the video with chapters as transitions. It also includes cameos from his actress-wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, for a “Stranger Things”-inspired sequence, as well as David Hasselhoff and KITT the car from “Knight Rider.”