Brad Paisley

Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and virtuoso country guitarist. His style crosses between traditional country and pop-rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references. Starting with the release of his 1999 album Who Needs Pictures,

Paisley has recorded seven studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified gold or higher by the RIAA. In addition, he has charted twenty-four singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, fourteen of which have reached Number One and ten of which were in a row. Paisley has stated that his love of country music stems from his maternal grandfather, Warren Jarvis, who gave Paisley his first guitar at 8-years-old and taught him how to play. At age 12, Paisley wrote his first song; and by age 13, he was an opening act for country singers such as The Judds, Ricky Skaggs and George Jones, at the Capital Music Hall, in Wheeling, West Virginia. Paisley graduated from John Marshall High School, in Glen Dale, West Virginia, studied briefly at West Liberty State College (WV) and later was