Love and War (Brad Paisley album)
Love and War is the twelfth studio album by American country music singer Brad Paisley. It was released on April 21, 2017, and is his final album to be released through Arista Nashville. The album's lead single is "Today".
Love and War
Content[edit]
The album's originally intended lead single was "Without a Fight", a duet with Demi Lovato, which did not make the album's final track listing.[1] The first single to be included on the album is "Today".[2] Paisley co-produced the album with Luke Wooten.[1]
Included on the album are collaborations with Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Timbaland, and Bill Anderson.[3] The song "Gold All Over the Ground" is based on a poem written by Johnny Cash in the collection Forever Words.[4]
In April 2017, Paisley released a "visual" version of the album, which features music videos for every song, worked into a singular narrative.[5]
It is Paisley's first album not to feature an instrumental track.
Commercial performance[edit]
Love and War debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, and at No. 13 on the US Billboard 200, selling 26,000 in pure sales copies in the US, making a total of 29,000 equivalent album units including tracks and streams.[14] It has sold 71,200 copies in the US as of December 2017.[15]