WHO NEEDS PICTURES is an enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files, featuring interviews and live performances.

Personnel includes: Brad Paisley (vocals, guitar).

Engineers include: John Kelton, Greg Droman, David Willis.

Principally recorded at The Castle Recording Studios, Franklin, Tennessee.

Brad Paisley won the 2000 CMA Horzion Award.

Brad Paisley was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Audio Mixers: John Kelton; Richard Barrow.

Recording information: Castle Recording Studio, Franklin, TN; EMI Music P; EMI Music Publishing Studi; Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN; Thelma's East, Nashville, TN.

Photographer: Senor McGuire.

With his brilliant debut WHO NEEDS PICTURES, Brad Paisley does the near-impossible--releases a debut album in Nashville that isn't full of songs that all sound the same. The pure country of WHO NEEDS PICTURES is Paisley's artistic vision inside and out--he co-wrote 12 of the 13 tracks, hired an old pal as producer, booked his road band to play on the album, and handled lead guitar himself. The result is a CD chock-full of expertly-crafted songs--some touching, some laugh-out-loud funny--coupled with tight, surprising arrangements. The beautiful "He Didn't Have to Be" is written from the perspective of a new dad hoping he can be as good a parent as his stepfather was to him. The hilarious "It Never Woulda Worked Out Anyway," with its jazzy Western swing arrangement, is about a guy who, after being turned down by his crush, proceeds to wreck every one of her subsequent relationships. And the melodic title track ponders the phenomenon of developing an old roll of film, only to find forgotten pictures of a former flame. WHO NEEDS PICTURES proves that West Virginia native Paisley is the real deal--a veritable tower of talent whose future work will be eagerly anticipated.

Q (4/00, p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[He] has a convincingly mature voice and a flamboyant guitar style....The strengths of this record are the strengths of modern country in general: a sense of real relevance to its constituents and their lives..."