Pick for Favorite Album of the Year

(2011's Adventures of Bobby Ray? Singles have won me over, a la B.o.B did)

I will be absolutely shocked at this point if Brad Paisley's This Is Country Music fails to take my top spot at the end of 2011. Early in the year I figured Lupe's LASERS would be in contention- but it didn't quite live up to my lofty expectations (still a really really good album). With the exception of Tyler, the Creator's Goblin due out in under a month and a possible Slaughterhouse album, I don't know of any albums to be released this year that will be able to compete with Brad in my CD-Changer/iTunes/iPod rotation. But- you never know. I didn't see American Saturday Night or The Adventures of Bobby Ray, released the past two years, to claim my top spots in 2009 and 2010 respectively.

Take a look at the track list below. The features alone are mind-boggling. Pays to be the Jay-Z equivalent in Country Music. When either hits you up and offers a spot on their next album, you jump at the opportunity.

1.	"This Is Country Music"
2.	"Old Alabama" (with Alabama)
3.	"A Man Don't Have To Die"
4.	"Camouflage"
5.	"Remind Me" (with Carrie Underwood)
6.	"Working On a Tan"
7.	"Love Her Like She's Leavin'" (with Don Henley of the Eagels)
8.	"One of Those Lives"
9.	"Toothbrush"
10.	"Be the Lake"
11.	"Eastwood" (with Clint Eastwood)
12.	"New Favorite Memory"
13.	"Don't Drink the Water" (with Blake Shelton)
14.	"I Do Now"
15.	"Life's Railway To Heaven" (with Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow, and Carl Jackson)

Wild West Wednesday

"I Don't Care (feat. Brad Paisley)" -- Darius Rucker

What happens when you take two of my favorite Country Artists, let them tour together and then slap them together on a brand new song on one's Sophomore album? You make me very happy. Darius Rucker joined up with Brad Paisley on his H2O tour this past summer. Brad returned the favor by joining up with Darius on his second country release, Charleston, SC 1966, for the track "I Don't Care." The song plays out as a fun, carefree interplay between the two, discussing the finer things in life (you know, beer, women, more women), as they get more and more drunk as the song goes on. Its got a contagious hook that you can't help but sing along too. And its songs like these that make country fans want to hangout with their idols, just two regular guys enjoying some cold ones.

Wild West Wednesday

So, new idea for the MFP. I love 5 things in life- Basketball, Music, Women, Film and Food. I probably know the most about baketball and the least about women. But that's neither hear nor there. I'd like to use the MFP to share my personal tastes in music. And, since my tastes are so wide and varied, I'd like to dedicate each day of the week to a different genre. So my hopeful goal is to post as follows:

Classic Rock Mondays.

Alternative Tuesdays.

Wild West Wednesdays.

Hip-Hop Thursdays.

Friday Grab-Bag.

The rules are very lax as far as what fits where, mostly because its my blog and I can do that.

SO- to kick things off, and seeing that today is Wednesday, I have a country song for you.

"Water," - Brad Paisley, just seems like the right song to start with for the first W.W.W. For one, Brad Paisely is probably my favorite country artist. His last album, American Saturday Night, was the Best Album I heard in 2009- and I never thought I'd say that about an album of country music. Not a skippable song on it, most especially this one right here. The album has its genuine moments of reflection, but this song is just too much fun. Hope you enjoy.