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Time Well Wasted

Time Well Wasted is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released on August 16, 2005, on Arista Nashville. It was the Country Music Association's Album of the Year for 2006.[13]

Time Well Wasted

August 16, 2005

The Castle and Sound Kitchen (Franklin, Tennessee); Emerald Entertainment and Thelma's East (Nashville, Tennessee).

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The album produced the singles "Alcohol", "When I Get Where I'm Going", "The World", and "She's Everything". "Alcohol" was a number 4 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, while the other three singles were all Number Ones. "Waitin' on a Woman" was re-recorded in mid-2008 as a bonus track for Paisley's 5th Gear album, and this re-recording was issued in June 2008 as a single.

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The first single from Time Well Wasted was "Alcohol", which reached a peak of number 4 on the Billboard country charts in mid-2005. After it came "When I Get Where I'm Going", featuring background vocals from Dolly Parton. This song became Paisley's fifth Number One and Parton's twenty-fifth, as well as her first since the Ricky Van Shelton duet "Rockin' Years" in 1991. It also made her the oldest female artist to have a Number One hit on the country charts.


"The World", the third single, became Paisley's highest-debuting single when it entered the charts at number 37, and was his sixth Number One. Finishing off the single releases was "She's Everything", also a Number One. "Waitin' on a Woman", a cut from this album, was re-recorded and released to radio in 2008, and was added to his next studio album, 2007's 5th Gear. Upon its reaching Number One, the re-recording of "Waitin' on a Woman" became Paisley's eighth Number One in a row, setting a new record for the most consecutive country Number One hits since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990.[14]

– lead vocals (1-13, 15-16), electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, 12-string electric guitar, hi-string acoustic guitar, mandolin

Brad Paisley

Jim "Moose" Brown – acoustic piano, keyboards, , backing vocals

Hammond organ

– acoustic piano

Bernie Herms

– keyboards

Gordon Mote

Gary Hooker – electric guitar, 12-string electric guitar, backing vocals

– electric guitar (16)

James Burton

banjo, backing vocals

Kendal Marcy

Randle Currie –

steel guitar

dobro

Jerry Douglas

Mike Johnson – dobro, steel guitar

– mandolin

Bryan Sutton

Kevin Grantt – bass guitar, , upright bass, backing vocals

tic tac bass

Kenny Lewis – bass guitar, backing vocals

Bobby Terry – bass guitar

Ben Sesar – drums

– percussion, vibraphone

Eric Darken

fiddle, mandolin

Stuart Duncan

Justin Williamson – fiddle

Wes Hightower – backing vocals

and "The 12 Steps" – gang vocals (2)

Scott Hamilton

Robert Arthur and Tim Owens – "cry babies" (4)

– lead and harmony vocals (7)

Alan Jackson

– harmony vocals (12)

Dolly Parton

"The Kung Pao Buckaroos" (, Little Jimmy Dickens and Bill Anderson, with Dolly Parton as "Miss Kitty") – featured vocals (16)

George Jones

– featured vocals (21)

William Shatner

As listed in liner notes.

Frank Rogers – producer

Chris DuBois – executive producer

Richard Barrow – recording

– recording, digital editing

Brian David Willis

Justin Niebank – mixing

Brady Barnett – digital editing

Adam Hatley – digital editing

Hank Williams – mastering

MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location

Katherine Stratton – art direction, design

Brad Paisley – design

Jim Shea – photography

Fitzgerald Hartley – management

Album Cover[edit]

The clock hanging on the guitar seen on the album cover is an homage to The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.