{"id":230,"date":"2014-09-06T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2015-10-05T19:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:50:44","slug":"brad-paisley-woodlands-pavilion-woodlands-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/06\/brad-paisley-woodlands-pavilion-woodlands-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Paisley – Woodlands Pavilion -Woodlands, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by Dave Clements <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Billed as Brad Paisley’s Country Nation World Tour, Brad did indeed bring enough opening acts along with him to populate a small nation!\u00a0 The early crowd was beginning to filter into The Woodlands Pavilion to see Brad Paisley and his latest star spangled show.\u00a0 I don’t remember ever seeing so many families with young children in attendance.\u00a0 It was Saturday and not a school night, so that might explain part of it.\u00a0 Still I found myself wondering, is Brad Paisley a family friendly act?\u00a0 We were about to find out!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Image\"First up was Charlie Worsham. \u00a0Charlie was out in the audience before his set greeting the early crowd and thanking them for coming out early to listen to him!\u00a0 He only did a few songs but his new friends in the crowd were very receptive.\u00a0 Plus, my wife tells me he’s a great looking guy.\u00a0 We heard several women in the audience sighing over his piercing blue eyes.\u00a0 For his second song, he picked up a banjo and did a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s \u2018Crazy Train’.\u00a0 Oddly enough, it worked!\u00a0 As an intro to the last song of his set, Charlie asked \u2018How many of you are seeing me for the first time?’\u00a0 After seeing many raised hands, he declared “I’m going to be back here in a few years and headline this place.\u00a0 I hope you’ll come see me!”\u00a0 I’d say he’s off to a good start.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next up in this very diverse lineup of openers was Ms. Leah Turner.\u00a0 She strutted out on stage to some decidedly hard rock background music.\u00a0 It was immediately obvious that she was going for a sexy and tough image.\u00a0 She wore short shorts, a camisole that left little to the imagination, and a fringed vest.\u00a0 Leah seemed to enjoy interacting with her audience and at one point declared her music was \u2018for everyone who’s got Tabasco in their veins’!\u00a0 She reminded me a little of Gretchen Wilson, but when she opened her mouth to sing a ballad I heard shades of Wynonna.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Image\"After Turner’s set was over we were treated (?) to Dee Jay Silver.\u00a0 Dee Jay is, well… a DJ.\u00a0 I know DJ’s are popular on the LA and NYC party scene.\u00a0 Apparently there is a real art to spinning tunes.\u00a0 He definitely kept the young audience member’s enthusiasm up.\u00a0 He was not playing anything that sounded even remotely country.\u00a0 He encouraged the crowd to \u2018get your shoes off – sing along!’ and many of them did.\u00a0 Guess it’s a generation gap thing.\u00a0 I could have done without this portion of the program.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last opener with top billing after Paisley, was Randy Houser.\u00a0 Despite the train whistle intro and the smoke being pumped out on the stage, the strains of music blasting were once again rock and roll.\u00a0 This crowd jumped to their feet though and greeted him enthusiastically.\u00a0 My first thought was that he doesn’t look the part.\u00a0 In fact, he looked down right uncomfortable to me but some of that could have been the sweat and red face as he reacted to this hot Texas night.\u00a0 Randy has roots in Mississippi so you’d think he’d be acclimated.\u00a0 Maybe it was the harsh spot lights and smoke?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Image\"Randy sang some original tunes.\u00a0 The crowd sang along to the first song \u2018Goodnight Kiss’.\u00a0 Then he covered Garth Brook’s \u2018Friends in Low Places’ and did a stand up job.\u00a0 His band mate wore a mad hatter’s hat and added to the song with a great steel guitar.\u00a0 His guitarist and bass player came up and crawled and slinked along the thrust in<\/a> front of the stage.\u00a0 They looked to be going for a Rolling Stones’ vibe.\u00a0 The sound was Southern Rock but the look was not.\u00a0 I don’t think Randy Houser needed all of the spot lights and special effects.\u00a0 Randy concluded his set by playing his current radio hit \u2018Like a Cowboy’ much to this audience’s delight.<\/span><\/p>\n

We listened to more Dee Jay Silver while waiting for Mr. Brad Paisley to take the stage.\u00a0 The stage screen showed video of rocket launchers with the NASA logo on them.\u00a0 I thought \u2018this is going to be BIG’!<\/span><\/p>\n

And indeed Houston…we had a lift off!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Image\"His opening tune \u2018Moonshine in the Trunk’ was accompanied by a dizzying video.\u00a0 We also saw Superhero graphics and I’d say Brad is working hard to live up to them.\u00a0 This is a super talented, very professional entertainer.\u00a0 The show has too many bells and whistles for my taste but I was very impressed by the work it must have required to pull it all off.\u00a0 Brad gave his all to the approximately 20 song set.\u00a0 During \u2018Beat This Summer’ he signed every fans’ everything!\u00a0 He came out into the crowd during \u2018The Mona Lisa’, and had the ladies swooning to \u2018She’s Everything’.\u00a0 And he gave an autographed guitar to a kid in the audience!\u00a0 Brad showed off his love for guitar solos with some great riffs and really let loose during his Van Halen cover of \u2018Hot for Teacher’.\u00a0 I’m surprised his guitar didn’t go up in flames!<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing the encore song \u2018Alcohol’ aside, the answer to the question about whether or not this is a family show seems to be yes.\u00a0 There were no \u2018F-bombs’, parents put earplugs and headphone on their children’s ears, and the crowd smiled and laughed through “I’m Gonna Miss Her”.\u00a0 This was a G-rated performance and an A+ for Brad Paisley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Until next time remember there’s no time to kill.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Written by Dave Clements Billed as Brad Paisley’s Country Nation World Tour, Brad did indeed bring enough opening acts along with him to populate a small nation!\u00a0 The early crowd was beginning to filter into The Woodlands Pavilion to see Brad Paisley and his latest star spangled show.\u00a0 I don’t remember ever seeing so many… <\/p>\n

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