Brad Paisley: This Is Country Music – review

(Arista)Since he promised the Guardian last year that he was on a mission to win over cynical Brits, things have been going Brad Paisley's way: a headline show at London's O2 arena next month is almost sold out. His seventh album shows why he remains the Nashville mainstream's most potent ambassador. He has fun with country's cliches, but still treats the genre seriously: on the deliberately daft Camouflage, the jokey lyric ("be invisible to a whitetail/ irresistible to a redneck girl") is unde...

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