Part II | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 29, 2001 | |||
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Genre | Country | |||
Length | 50:41 | |||
Label | Arista Nashville | |||
Producer | Frank Rogers | |||
Brad Paisley chronology | ||||
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Singles from Part II | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
About.com | [2] |
Allmusic | [3] |
Country Weekly | (favorable) [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ [5] |
People | (positive) [6] |
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.
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.
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]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Two Feet of Topsoil" |
| 2:46 |
2. | " I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" |
| 3:14 |
3. | "Part Two" |
| 3:35 |
4. | " Wrapped Around" |
| 3:22 |
5. | " Two People Fell in Love" |
| 4:07 |
6. | "Come On Over Tonight" |
| 4:33 |
7. | " You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive" | Darrell Scott | 5:04 |
8. | " I Wish You'd Stay" |
| 6:17 |
9. | "All You Really Need Is Love" |
| 2:44 |
10. | "Munster Rag" (instrumental) |
| 3:15 |
11. | "You Have That Effect on Me" |
| 4:22 |
12. | "Too Country" (featuring Buck Owens, Bill Anderson and George Jones) | 3:31 | |
13. | " The Old Rugged Cross" (live at The Grand Ole Opry, December 16, 2000) | Traditional | 3:51 |
Credits from the album's liner notes. [1] The liner notes do not give detailed information for "The Old Rugged Cross".
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |
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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 |
Region | Certification |
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Canada ( Music Canada) [17] | Gold |
United States ( RIAA) [18] | Platinum |