Brad Paisley made a surprise appearance at Whiskey Jam last night (July 20) at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row bar on Broadway in Nashville. He performed some of his biggest hits during his 45 minute set and a few new songs from his recently released project, Tacklebox – Disc 1. The 13-track disc is available HERE.
Among the new songs was “Hi Ho Silverado,” written by Paisley, Clint Lagerberg, and David Lee Murphy. Murphy joined Paisley onstage to perform the song, and they followed it with his 1994 hit “Dust On The Bottle.”
Whiskey Jam began in 2011 as an underground writer’s night and quickly became a mainstay of Nashville’s music scene. The list is now a who’s who of songwriters and artists who have performed over the past 15 years.
Paisley named the project Tacklebox – Disc 1 because it’s “full of hooks, country music hooks.” Some of the songs on Tacklebox come from his extensive catalog of unreleased and unrecorded songs dating back to the 90s, when his career began. Other songs were recently written and inspired by that style and by the unmistakable 90s sound of Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, and Alabama, as well as 80s-influenced productions reminiscent of those by George Strait, Garth Brooks, and others.
