Trivia / Brad Paisley

• Black Sheep Hit:
  • Pretty much any of his ballads that became popular, such as the extremely dark double-suicide in "Whiskey Lullaby", the Cliché Storm that is "Then", or his highest Hot 100 entry, the completely serious Dead Sparks ballad "Remind Me".
  • In addition, his highest charting song on the Hot 100 is "Remind Me," a ballad with Carrie Underwood; Also different from his novelty songs.
• Chart Displacement: "Whiskey Lullaby" is one of his biggest hits despite only getting to #3; this is because it was blocked by the one-two punch of "I Go Back" and "Live Like You Were Dying".
• Creator Couple: With actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
• Missing Episode: "Without a Fight" was removed from the track listing of what would become Love and War due to the song bombing at radio.
• Production Posse: He usually tends to write with Kelley Lovelace, Chris DuBois, and/or Lee Thomas Miller. He also uses members of his road band, the Drama Kings, on most of his albums.
• Romance on the Set: Sort of. Brad first saw his future wife, Kimberly Williams, when he and his girlfriend at the time went to see Father Of The Bride; he loved her performance so much that he went to see the sequel by himself after he'd broken up with said girlfriend. Six years later, when deciding which woman to cast in the video for "I'm Gonna Miss Her", Brad decided to ask Kimberly to be in the video. The two hit it off instantly as soon as they started talking to each other, dated, and eventually married.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Alan Jackson, George Strait, and Garth Brooks all expressed interest in recording "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" before Brad ultimately cut it himself.
  • Though, when Brad first started played it live (for a long time before it was officially released), he himself would preceed the song with a long banter saying that he'd pitched the song to Alan Jackson, who turned it down because he thought it was too goofy. As a result, Brad, who wrote it, kept it for himself.

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