He's a three-time Grammy winner, a seven-time 2009 CMA award nominee and the golden boy of country music, but Brad Paisley is undoubtedly a nice guy first.
At a small gathering before his concert at the Superpages.com Center last night, Brad met with 10 local kids who were picked to be edited into a special version of his "Welcome to the Future" vid, the most recent single from his American Saturday Night release. While you can see the official version of the video here, this localized version was shown on the screen during the concert and featured Dallas landmarks and the kids saying, "When I grow up, I want to be a ______."
A father of two young sons himself, Brad joked with the kids and thanked them for hamming it up for his song that's about children and their dreams for the future. I asked Brad if he has any hopes for what his children want to be when they grow up. An easy answer: "Anything they want to be," he said, adding that he's "not one of those dads."
But he is a big fan of Dallas and the state, he says, and when he swings through, there's one thing he remembers most about the city. Our awesome Tex-Mex? The state fair? Our hot nightclubs? Our friendly nature? Nope. "The reason you know it's Dallas," Brad said, "is cuz you're standing in front of road construction."
Awww... now that hurts.
Cuz it's true.
As for the concert, spirits stayed high in spite of the rain. Well, at least mine did. I had dry seats under the awning of the amphitheater, so it was hard to tell if fans watching from the lawn area were suffering in the deluge or making it a party. With country-music concert-goers, you'd have to guess party.
Jimmy Wayne and Dierks Bentley ("Sideways") banged out energetic, opening sets before Paisley was cheered through many of his big hits: "I'm Gonna Miss Her," "Letter to Me," "Celebrity," "I'm Still a Guy" and "She's Everything." All in all, a great show for sure, and I was also impressed that Brad is so artsy as well. He painted the background for his American Saturday Night album cover (shown partially in the backdrop in the pic above) and was credited with some clever cartoon graphics playing during some of the concert footage.
Must be something to lean back on in case, you know, that whole singing thing doesn't work out...
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