Brad Paisley Scores 19th #1 Single With "Old Alabama"

As CMA Entertainer of the Year Brad Paisley releases his ninth studio album, This Is Country Music, today he learns that the album’s second single, “Old Alabama,” hits #1 on Billboard’s country airplay chart. Co-written by Paisley, Chris DuBois, Dave Turnbull, and Randy Owen, “Old Alabama” features supergroup Alabama. Before heading to New York this week to support his new album’s release, Paisley made a pit stop in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the weekend to world premiere the video for “Old Alabama” at the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. The video world premiered on multiple platforms, including SPEED, NASCAR.com and on the world’s largest HD video board at the Charlotte Motor Speedway before the start of the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race. Fans can watch Brad’s hilarious video now at http://vevo.ly/kgml7j.  Tomorrow Paisley, along with Alabama, will perform on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and on CBS’s “The Late Show with David Letterman.” The next day, Paisley and Alabama will perform on “The View” on ABC.  This Is Country Music is a 15-track collection, with 12 co-written by Paisley, and produced by Frank Rogers. His first studio album since American Saturday Night (July of 2009) includes guest performances by Carrie Underwood (the duet, “Remind Me”), Don Henley (“Love Her Like She’s Leavin’”), Blake Shelton (“Don’t Drink the Water”), Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow, and Carl Jackson (“Life’s Railway to Heaven”) and Clint Eastwood (the instrumental, “Eastwood”).  Fans can purchase This Is Country Music at Target (Target.com/ThisIsCountryMusic), iTunes (http://bit.ly/gC00iy) and all other music retailers.  Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year and Grand Ole Opry member Brad Paisley is a consummate singer, songwriter, guitarist and entertainer, which has earned him three GRAMMYs, 14 Country Music Association Awards and 14 Academy of Country Music Awards which includes five consecutive Male Vocalist awards. He has 19 #1 singles and has released nine critically acclaimed studio albums. Paisley’s innovative and entertaining H20 World Tour played to over 879,000 fans in 2010 and placed #1 country tour for attendance by Pollstar. His 2011 tour, H2O II: Wetter & Wilder, will kick-off June 3 at the Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach in Virginia Beach, Virginia.