Part II (Brad Paisley album)

Part II is the second studio album by American country music artist Brad Paisley. Released on May 29, 2001, through Arista Nashville, it became Paisley's second platinum-certified album in the United States. It produced four singles; "Two People Fell in Love", "Wrapped Around", "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" and "I Wish You'd Stay", which respectively reached number 4, number 2, number 1, and number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "Too Country" also entered the country charts from unsolicited airplay.

Part II
Studio album by Brad Paisley
Released	May 29, 2001
Studio	The Castle, Franklin^[1] Thelma's East, "Nashvegas" (Nashville)^[1] EMI, Nashville^[1] Ocean Way Studio, Nashville^[1] Buck Owens Productions, Bakersfield, CA^[1]
Genre	Country
Length	50:41
Label	Arista Nashville
Producer	Frank Rogers
Brad Paisley chronology
Who Needs Pictures (1999) Part II (2001) Mud on the Tires (2003)
Singles from Part II
"Two People Fell in Love" Released: March 19, 2001 "Wrapped Around" Released: August 20, 2001 "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" Released: February 25, 2002 "I Wish You'd Stay" Released: August 12, 2002

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[2]
Allmusic	^[3]
Country Weekly	(favorable)^[4]
Entertainment Weekly	B+^[5]
People	(positive)^[6]

Written by Darrell Scott, "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" was also recorded by Patty Loveless on her 2001 album Mountain Soul and by Kathy Mattea on her 2008 album Coal. The song was featured in the FX TV series Justified.

This album was repackaged with Who Needs Pictures by Sony's Legacy division and released on September 23, 2008.

Background

The title for Paisley's second album as well as the songs on it were inspired by the movie, Father of the Bride Part II, the follow-up to the movie he went to see on his first date with a certain girl several years before his first record deal. They had long since broken up but when the sequel to the movie came out, Paisley couldn't help thinking about her. And wondering if she was thinking about him. "I ended up going to see (the sequel) on the exact day, at the exact same showing that we saw the first one," he says. "I did it on purpose thinking she might be there, too. Well, of course, she wasn't. No one is that psychotic except me."

Disappointed, Paisley channeled his feelings by writing a song with his best friend and frequent songwriting partner, Kelley Lovelace. "We started talking," Paisley says, "and the line came out: 'Hollywood never fails to make a sequel' and 'Why can't love be more like that?' Then, I remember thinking that (Part II) would be a really great title for a second album. And a great concept.^[7]" To emphasize the sequel theme, the album opens with strings playing "In the Garden", exactly as the previous album had ended.

This event was revisited on Paisley's 2009 album, American Saturday Night during a reprise of the song, "Welcome to the Future".

The album includes a cover of Darrell Scott's bluegrass standard "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive", which Paisley chose to record because, being a native of West Virginia, he had seen the effect that coal mining had on communities in that region.^[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Two Feet of Topsoil"	Brad Paisley Robert Arthur	2:46
2.	"I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)"	Paisley Frank Rogers	3:14
3.	"Part Two"	Paisley Kelley Lovelace	3:35
4.	"Wrapped Around"	Paisley Lovelace Chris DuBois	3:22
5.	"Two People Fell in Love"	Paisley Lovelace Tim Owens	4:07
6.	"Come On Over Tonight"	Paisley Chely Wright	4:33
7.	"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"	Darrell Scott	5:04
8.	"I Wish You'd Stay"	Paisley DuBois	6:17
9.	"All You Really Need Is Love"	Paisley DuBois Rogers	2:44
10.	"Munster Rag" (instrumental)	Paisley James Gregory Mitch McMichen	3:15
11.	"You Have That Effect on Me"	Paisley Rogers	4:22
12.	"Too Country" (featuring Buck Owens, Bill Anderson and George Jones)	Bill Anderson Chuck Cannon	3:31
13.	"The Old Rugged Cross" (live at The Grand Ole Opry, December 16, 2000)	Traditional	3:51

Personnel

Credits from the album's liner notes.^[1] The liner notes do not give detailed information for "The Old Rugged Cross".

Musicians

• Brad Paisley – lead vocals (1-9, 11-13), acoustic guitar (1-12), electric guitars (1-12), 6-string "Tic tac" bass (1-6, 8-10, 12)
• Wes Hightower – backing vocals (1-9, 11-12)
• Chely Wright – backing vocals (3?)
• Sonya Isaacs – backing vocals (7)
• Kenny Lewis – backing vocals (12)
• Bill Anderson – vocals (12)
• George Jones – vocals (12)
• Buck Owens – vocals (12)
• Gary Hooker – acoustic guitar (4), electric guitar (12)
• Kevin Grantt – bass guitar (1-6, 8-11), upright bass (10, 12), vocal stylings (10)
• Bernie Herms – acoustic piano (1-12), keyboards (3, 8), Hammond B3 organ (7, 10, 12), string arrangements (8)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (1, 3-4, 8, 12)
• Ben Sesar – drums (2, 5-7, 9-11)
• Mitch McMitchen – percussion (1-12)
• Ron Block – banjo (1, 10)
• Darrell Scott – banjo (7), dobro (7), mandolin (7), backing vocals (7)
• Jim Heffernan – dobro (1, 10, 12)
• Mike Johnson – steel guitar (1-12), dobro (2)
• Glen Duncan – fiddle (1-4, 7-8, 11-12)
• Justin Williamson – fiddle (1-3, 5-6, 9-10), mandolin (5, 8, 10)
• Carl Marsh – string arrangements and conductor (11)
• Carl Gorodetzky and The Nashville String Machine – strings (8, 11)
• Frank Rogers – "radio performer" (13)
• Little Jimmy Dickens – introduction (13)
• Eddie Stubbs – introduction (13)

Production

• Frank Rogers – producer
• Richard Barrow – recording/engineer (1-12), mixing
• Tim Farris – recording (13)
• Brian David Willis – overdub recording (1-12), digital editing (1-12)
• David Bryant – additional recording/engineer
• Chris Latham – additional recording/engineer
• Chris O'Donnell – additional recording/engineer
• David Schober – additional recording/engineer
• Mike Purcell – recording assistant (1-12)
• Steve Short – recording assistant (1-12), mix assistant
• Joe Costa – mix assistant
• Hank Williams – mastering
• MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
• Susan Sherrill – production assistant
• Beth Lee – art direction, design
• Nigel Parry – photography
• Lori Turk – "grooming"
• Jennifer Kemp – wardrobe stylist
• Jimmy Glimmer – management
• JAG Management – management company

Chart performance

Weekly charts Chart (2001) Peak position US Billboard 200^[9] 31 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[10] 3

Year-end charts Chart (2001) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[11] 50 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[12] 39 Chart (2002) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[13] 39 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[14] 19

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country ^[15]	US ^[16]
2001	"Two People Fell in Love"	4	51
	"Wrapped Around"	2	35
2002	"I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)"	1	29
	"I Wish You'd Stay"	7	57

Certifications

Region	Certification
Canada (Music Canada)^[17]	Gold
United States (RIAA)^[18]	Platinum

References

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7. Anon (2001). . Archived from the original on June 10, 2001. Retrieved June 10, 2001. aristanashville.com. Retrieved September 17, 2009
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14. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2002". Billboard. Retrieved October 22, 2020.
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17. "Canadian album certifications – Brad Paisley – Part II". Music Canada.
18. "American album certifications – Brad Paisley – Part II". Recording Industry Association of America.