Brad Paisley Celebrates Two No. 1s in Four Months

… I was put in the terrible position of not being able to defend myself until the trial and I just could not wait for that day to come. I knew it would take no time at all for the case to be dismissed and it was, of course, with prejudice which means: He had no case whatsoever.”

Of Lovett’s album, King says: “This is a terrific Texas swing album, but of course not everybody likes Texas swing (or even knows what it is). What makes it special is Lovett’s vermouth-dry vocals and his equally dry wit.”

“You’ve got to stand for something, and I stand for good country music,” he says by phone from his San Antonio home. “I’m not going to let nobody come in and mold me into what I should do. I can only sing and do what I feel. Every time I travel and perform, people are starved to death for that traditional sound.”

(via Twang Nation)

He doesn’t sing as much about husbands — no great country singer has ever had less interest in his own love life, mainly because his only true love is the road. Hag knows it will never love him back — you can hear that in his voice from the beginning, the way he feels the cold wind hit him in “Branded Man.” But on The Original Outlaw, it’s a lifelong passion.

(also via Twang Nation)