{"id":4812,"date":"2011-05-25T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2011-05-26T17:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T17:01:02","slug":"a-canadian-paisley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-05\/a-canadian-paisley\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian Paisley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Doug Paisley<\/strong> has been kicking the tail of that other (unrelated) Paisley poseur in the songwriting department (we’ll give Brad the guitar-playing nod for now).\u00a0\u00a0 Paisley’s released two well-regarded albums, including last year’s fine “Constant Companion<\/strong>” (see photo above).<\/p>\n

There’s nothing too fancy here; just malingering melodies supporting evocative, carefully-tended lyrics delivered via matter-of-fact, well-sung vocals.\u00a0 Sometimes you can tell the worth of a musician by the attention paid by fellow musicians.\u00a0 In Paisley’s case, he’s drawn the attention of the fabulous Feist<\/strong> and legend Garth Hudson<\/strong> of The Band<\/strong>, along with other fine musicians who supported him on Constant Companion.\u00a0 Check out a few of his songs below.\u00a0 Up first is What I Saw<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Doug Paisley–What I Saw<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/11-What-I-Saw.mp3|titles=11 What I Saw]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Right off in this song we hear an opening homage to Neil Young, circa “Comes a Time” or “Harvest Moon.”\u00a0 And then we get Paisley’s seemingly simple story and delivery, as elevated by Feist’s angelic choral vocals and Garth Hudson’s organic organ accompaniment.<\/p>\n

“Fell out of love, wandered around<\/p>\n

Wore out my shoes, went to the town<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you know, well I couldn\u2019t get back<\/p>\n

Train that I took was torn from the tracks<\/p>\n

Did you see what I saw?<\/p>\n

Could it be that I\u2019ve lost<\/p>\n

A way to go on and a reason to go<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

And all that I see is all that I know<\/p>\n

Sad as I feel, a lonesome room (on the video version below: “Sad as I fear, the monkey in me”)<\/p>\n

Banishing words heckle the gloom (video version:\u00a0 “I’m looking at you, looking at me”)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m up on the hill, and I look to the sea<\/p>\n

Ship on the shore is waiting for me.<\/p>\n

Did you see what I saw?<\/p>\n

Could it be that I\u2019ve lost<\/p>\n

A way to go on and a reason to go<\/p>\n

And all that I see is all that I know”<\/p>\n

Here’s the song done live<\/strong>, providing even more reason to love the violin.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NL59aJ-GGSg&feature=related<\/p>\n

Also check out No One But You<\/strong><\/em> and, with a further tip of the influence hat to Neil Young, Paisley’s cover of Young’s Out on the Weekend.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Doug Paisley–<\/strong>No One But You<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Doug Paisley–Out on the Weekend<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fell out of love, wandered around<\/p>\n

Wore out my shoes, went to the town<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you know, well I couldn\u2019t get back<\/p>\n

Train that I took was torn from the tracks<\/p>\n

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Did you see what I saw?<\/p>\n

Could it be that I\u2019ve lost<\/p>\n

A way to go on and a reason to go<\/p>\n

And all that I see is all that I know<\/p>\n

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Sad as I feel, a lonesome room<\/p>\n

Banishing words heckle the gloom<\/p>\n

I\u2019m up on the hill, and I look to the sea<\/p>\n

Ship on the shore is waiting for me.<\/p>\n

\n

Did you see what I saw?<\/p>\n

Could it be that I\u2019ve lost<\/p>\n

A way to go on and a reason to go<\/p>\n

And all that I see is all that I know<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doug Paisley has been kicking the tail of that other (unrelated) Paisley poseur in the songwriting department (we’ll give Brad the guitar-playing nod for now).\u00a0\u00a0 Paisley’s released two well-regarded albums, including last year’s fine “Constant Companion” (see photo above). There’s nothing too fancy here; just malingering melodies supporting evocative, carefully-tended lyrics delivered via matter-of-fact, well-sung […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}