Brad Paisley | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What do Brad Paisley and Bill Maher say about the similarities between rap and country lyrics?
Like the last thing I saw you on was like the Paul Simon tribute. Yeah. What a player you are. Thanks for singing that. What song did you sing them to? I did a couple. I did one with Bonnie. I did Bonnie. But what was the song? Because I know everyone. I did Codachrome. Codachrome. Which is like opened the show, right? Yeah. And then you did another one? A slow one?
Yeah, I played guitar for Bonnie and sang harmony on Bonnie Rate, did uh Something So Right. Which is so it's a jazz song. That's just you know who does an amazing cover of
that is Barbara Streisand. Oh I bet. Did you know that? No, I've never heard that. It's on the Way We Were album. Oh wow.
I should look that up. You absolutely have to. All of us backstage, we were all shitting a brick because Like here's Codachrome that all of us know. We know it by heart, right? Except until you try to play it. And there's a three-bar phrase, and then there's a f and then it's a five-bar phrase the second time before it goes into the course. And it's so intricate and crazy the way he would write. He I think he would like try to screw with bands that wanted to cover his material and make it too hard for anybody to play.
I it's funny you say that because I remember reading Uh and I'm a huge Paul Simon fan. But Sometimes people can be so good and so far advanced in what they're doing that they can get a little ahead of the parade where the regular people are. Oh yeah. He's
living in another planet. I mean Paul is a very good thing. Well, but what's crazy is he's made a career of doing that exact thing and everyone loves it and wants more. And I don't think anybody else has gotten away with being that brilliant for
that long. I couldn't agree more. I d I'm I mean, honestly, and I love some of the album like like uh The two in the early eighties were flops and they're my favorites. Uh One Trick Pony. One trick pony's great. Which is another very jazzy because it's that kind he it's uh about a band on the road. Yeah. And all the songs, it's almost reminds me of Jackson Brown's Running on Empty album, which they recorded in hotel rooms and on the bus. And it sounds um it was 1977, it still sounds amazing. And that was the feel of One Trick Pony, 'cause it w he was a singer in a band. Yeah. You know, and he had a hit. Totally. But it wasn't but now his career wasn't go it never really took
off. I love it when he does the sort of premise, almost what I'd call uh it's like a soundtrack. It's like he creates characters in a fictional movie around the album. He just sent me his new record last week, which is just about to come out. So we're on here to plug Paul now, which is great. Let's do it. But it's called Seven Psalms, and he's so, like you say, ahead of the parade, it's one file. It is thirty three minutes, no breaks, you can only hear the whole thing. Yeah, see that doesn't work for me. I loved it. But yeah,
but you're a musician.
The way he is, he's I talked to him about it this week. I said, So what how did you do this? And he said I said, What about the presentation on this and how's that gonna work for people? He said, I don't care, it's how it's supposed to be presented. Yeah, I I know
how what I was gonna say is I remember reading an interview with him maybe like, you know, this century, like ten years ago or something, and he was talking something about Like there were tonal deep like gradations that we w hadn't been aware of. But I remember like th I I first of all I don't give a fuck. Like I'm just the I'm the I'm the consumer here. You know, and for so long I felt and look, there's stuff he's put out in this century that I do still like, but it it's not he j I d I feel like the commercial the he he hit that sweet spot between it's commercially just fantastic but also original. Yeah, yeah. And for sure. It's nothing is formulaic. I mean, some of these songs the other album that was did not do well, I don't think, in the early eighties was Hearts and Bones.
Right. Which is an amazing record. It's amazing. It's amazing. And the title song oh I mean, remember the late great Johnny Ace?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do Brad Paisley and Bill Maher say about the similarities between rap and country lyrics?
0:01–6:31
2
How does the conversation explore the West Virginia joke that both find funny?
6:31–12:50
3
Why do they claim the best country songs can fit on a T‑shirt?
12:50–21:58
4
What is the story behind the tuba player’s ‘burden’ and the cigar jokes?
21:58–28:45
5
What are the favorite QAnon theories discussed and why?
28:45–37:18
6
Why does Bill Maher criticize Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ lyric?
37:18–44:05
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How does Bill Maher propose a TV remake that moves society forward?
44:05–51:36
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What key takeaways about art, lyrics, and cultural change emerge at the end?
51:36–1:01:45