Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley’s “The Paisley Party” tour will make a stop at The Theatre at the Frank Erwin Center on January 22!  Paisley will be accompanied by very special guests Dierks Bentley and Darius Rucker. Paisley is the current CMA and ACM Male Vocalist of the Year, and he received his first Grammy Award this year for Best Country Instrumental for “Throttleneck.”  Paisley’s highly anticipated guitar-driven mostly-instrumental album, Play, was just released on November 4 and includes special guest vocals and collaborations with B.B. King, Keith Urban, Steve Wariner and Buck Owens. His next single is “Start A Band” with fellow guitar-slinger Keith Urban.
 
Coming off his career fifth No. 1 hit, country music star Dierks Bentley firmly made a place for himself at the top of the charts with his third disc, Long Trip Alone, which spawned two No. 1 hit singles, six Grammy nominations and CMA nods for “Album Of The Year” and “Male Vocalist of the Year.”  Having already won every new artist award offered by the industry (CMA, ACM, CMT), Dierks Bentley is poised to join the ranks of country music’s elite with his fourth album, currently slated for release in early 2009.
 
As the voice of Hootie & The Blowfish, the Grammy Award winning band that has sold over 25 million albums worldwide, artist Darius Rucker is hardly an unknown. But now music fans are hearing a fresh side of this distinctive performer with his first country smash, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It," that rose to No. 1 on the Billboard country chart. Darius Rucker's highly anticipated Capitol Records Nashville album debut, Learn To Live, hit stores on September 16 and features Paisley on guitar on the track “All I Want.”