Play: The Guitar Album

Rating

Album: Play: The Guitar Album
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Huckleberry Jam
2)	Turf's Up
3)	Start a Band - (featuring Keith Urban)
4)	Kim
5)	Departure
6)	Come on In - (featuring Buck Owens)
7)	Playing with Fire
8)	Kentucky Jelly
9)	More Than Just This Song - (featuring Steve Wariner)
10)	Les Is More
11)	Pre-Cluster Cluster Pluck Prequel
12)	Cluster Pluck
13)	Cliffs of Rock City
14)	Let the Good Times Roll - (featuring B.B. King)
15)	What a Friend We Have in Jesus
16)	Waitin' on a Woman - (featuring Andy Griffith)

Album: Play: The Guitar Album
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Huckleberry Jam
2)	Turf's Up
3)	Start a Band - (featuring Keith Urban)
4)	Kim
5)	Departure
6)	Come on In - (featuring Buck Owens)
7)	Playing with Fire
8)	Kentucky Jelly
9)	More Than Just This Song - (featuring Steve Wariner)
10)	Les Is More
11)	Pre-Cluster Cluster Pluck Prequel
12)	Cluster Pluck
13)	Cliffs of Rock City
14)	Let the Good Times Roll - (featuring B.B. King)
15)	What a Friend We Have in Jesus
16)	Waitin' on a Woman - (featuring Andy Griffith)

Performer Notes

In an unusual move for an established country singer, Brad Paisley's PLAY is a primarily instrumental album that puts its focus entirely on Paisley's underrated guitar work. Far from being a traditional country album, or even a contemporary country-pop album, PLAY works in a wide variety of genres, including Les Paul-style jazz, ripping surf rock, old-fashioned electric Chicago blues, and metal-tinged rock & roll.
Paisley also assembles quite a list of guest stars: a re-recording of an early hit features a guest appearance by the actor Andy Griffith, while the Bakersfield country rocker "Come On In" features the late Buck Owens and a bluesy take on "Let the Good Times Roll" welcomes B.B. King. Two vocal tracks, "Start A Band" and "More Than Just This Song," feature Keith Urban and Steve Warriner, respectively, while the epic "Cluster Pluck" is a tongue-in-cheek high-speed dash through the history of country guitar showcasing James Burton, Vince Gill, Albert Lee, and four other guitarists besides. PLAY is a detour, but a worthwhile one.

Professional Reviews

Billboard (p.29) - "'Turf's Up' is an impressive tribute to the surf instrumentals of early rock'n'roll. 'Come On In,' a duet with Owens, is a pleasant find and fitting tribute."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.111) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "PLAY sees Nashville superstar Paisley jam with an array of equally adroit pickers..."

Blender (Magazine) (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Paisley is a] hell of a guitar player, a talent emphasized on his sixth album -- mostly instrumental set of surf jams, countrified picking, jazzy filigrees and all-out riffage..."

Paste (magazine) (p.59) - "Paisley's guitar rolls and tumbles like an Olympic gymnast, trading licks with the pedal steel and banjo."