Brad Paisley’s ‘Country Music’ Comes a Day Early

Fans have one less day to wait for some great 'Country Music.'

Brad Paisley has pushed the release date of his ninth studio album, 'This Is Country Music,' to May 23 -- one day before its previously scheduled in-store date. That's likely due to the runaway success of the project's second single, 'Old Alabama,' featuring the legendary group, Alabama, who reunited for the song. The song is already in the Top 10 on both the Billboard and Country Aircheck charts after just seven weeks, and follows the similarly successful title track, which peaked at No. 2.

In addition to Alabama, special guests on the 15-song collection include Carrie Underwood ('Remind Me'), Don Henley ('Love Her Like She's Leavin'') and Blake Shelton ('Don't Drink the Water'), as well as Sheryl Crow, Marty Stuart and Carl Jackson collaborating on 'Life's Railway to Heaven.' And, of course, there's the inspiration behind the song, 'Eastwood,' who lends a different kind of voice to the album.

"It's an epic movie soundtrack-sounding Western," Brad tells The Boot of 'Eastwood.' "I've become friends with Clint Eastwood and his wife, Dina. So I emailed Dina and said, 'Does he whistle?' And she said, 'Yeah, you want him to whistle on something?' I said, 'I have a thing that sounds like an Ennio Morricone, the guy that did all the spaghetti western music like 'The Good, Bad and the Ugly,' and of course it has to have [he whistles] all that kind of stuff. I asked, 'Can he do that?' She wrote back and said, 'He'd love to.'

"He whistled to the track, and there he is," Brad continues. "It's just little things like that that keep me going. The fun of thinking, 'If you're gonna have a Western, have the coolest cowboy of all time whistle on the thing.'"

'This Is Country Music' is Brad's first all-new studio album since 2009's 'American Saturday Night,' which was followed in fall of 2010 by the 'Hits Alive' double-disc.

'This Is Country Music' Track List:

1. 'This Is Country Music'

2. 'Old Alabama' (featuring Alabama)

3. 'A Man Don't Have to Die'

4. 'Camouflage'

5. 'Remind Me' (Featuring Carrie Underwood)

6. 'Working on a Tan'

7. 'Love Her Like She's Leavin'' (Featuring Don Henley)

8. 'One of Those Lives'

9. 'Toothbrush'

10. 'Be the Lake'

11. 'Eastwood' (Featuring Clint Eastwood)

12. 'New Favorite Memory'

13. 'Don't Drink the Water' (Featuring Blake Shelton)

14. 'I Do Now'

15. 'Life's Railway to Heaven' (Featuring Marty Stuart, Sheryl Crow and Carl Jackson)