Brad Paisley - Old Alabama (Featuring Alabama)

With "This Is Country Music" stalled behind the juggernaut that is "Don't You Wanna Stay," on the radio charts, Brad Paisley is moving on to the second single from This Is Country Music and it's an aural treat in the form of a new song based on "Old Alabama" songs.

The song features the three main members of Alabama (Randy Owen, Jeff Cook and Teddy Gentry) and that alone helps the nostalgia factor of “Old Alabama” but Paisley’s own voice works well singing these types of down-home southern charmers and while lyrics could probably be better, in the end, what this song really is is a four minute tribute to Alabama’s legendary country tunes from the 1980s with cleverly intertwined song titles like “Dixieland Delight,” “Right Time of the Night,” “Feels So Right” and “Love in the First Degree.”

This isn’t the first time an artist has made a new song out of using old song titles but with an artist who is quite reverential to the artists that blazed the trail before him, Brad Paisley smartly includes Alabama in the song here, thus ensuring that not only will he likely have one of 2011’s summer anthems but that he’ll also have a song that will be a contender for vocal event award nominations (and likely wins) come award season.

After the slight disappointment of “This Is Country Music,” this song is much more of a return to form for Brad Paisley that sounds, as Mr. Food says “ooh, it’s so good!”

Lyrics: "Old Alabama"

Listen: "Old Alabama (Feat. Alabama)"

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