Brad Paisley Visits The Saddest Playground Ever

September 19th, 2008 // 11 Comments



I know that Brad Paisley’s forthcoming album Play is supposed to be mostly instrumental, but jeez, man, how is that guitar supposed to swing if there’s nobody to give it that first push? Or is it just going to move through the power of those awful Technicolor outlines surrounding the type on the cover?

[HT brasstax]


  1. Camp Tiger Claw

    Needs a mustachioed roadie peering around the corner.

  2. Al Shipley

    They said it couldn’t be done, but Brad Paisley was determined to make an album with an even worse cover than 5th Gear.

  3. Michaelangelo Matos

    Back in the ’90s, country covers were usually bad because Garth Brooks had awful taste in shirts. Now they’re ugly because of Photoshop. Sad.

  4. brasstax

    Arista’s letting him design these atrocities himself. This could be the one instance in which I’d support the label not turning over complete creative control.

  5. unperson

    All country albums should have covers by Aaron Turner or John Baizley. Or maybe Seldon Hunt.

  6. Anonymous

    The concept is OK, I guess. Execution, not so much.

  7. Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee

    @unperson: I’m gonna go on and add Aaron Horkey to your list. I hope that’s acceptable.

  8. TheRunningboard7

    Brad Paisley: Never have I respected a musician for being a musician so much, yet be completely unable to like his music.

  9. Ned Raggett

    Maybe it’s just the aftermath of the first Korn album cover. Edward Scissorhands took the girl, left a guitar.

  10. cheesebubble

    That doesn’t even look like they bothered with something like Photoshop. More like Microsoft Paint. And a blind man at the helm.

  11. Skwerl

    that cover is a fucking abominable sin against art.

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