GUITAR MAN
If you wanted to read a list of Brad Paisley’s many achievements, honours and awards one by one, you’d probably be here all day. So allow us to summarise. Across a two-decade career, the country singer-songwriter has shifted more than 11 million records, as well as set the record for the most consecutive No.1 singles on the Billboard country chart (10, if you’re counting). He’s won enough Grammys, CMA and ACM awards to sink a fairly substantial boat, has written songs for Disney movies, and turned up on TV shows as diverse as South Park and The Voice. Oh, and he also happens to be a bona fide strap-in-and-hold-on-tight monster of a guitar player.
If you’re not yet aware of what we mean, stop reading this and give Paisley’s 2009 Grammy-winning instrumental Cluster Pluck a spin and feel your jaw drop as the West Virginian goes toe to toe with a laundry list of country guitar icons, including James Burton, Albert Lee, Vince Gill and Brent Mason, across three-and-a-half frenetic minutes of fret-melting brilliance.
Given all that, it was no surprise that back in 2017, Fender honoured Paisley with a signature Telecaster.
