| Part II | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Brad Paisley |
| Cover: | PartII.jpg |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | May 29, 2001 |
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| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 50:41 |
| Label: | Arista Nashville |
| Producer: | Frank Rogers |
| Prev Title: | Who Needs Pictures |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | Mud on the Tires |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
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.[1] " 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.[2]
Credits from the album's liner notes.[3] The liner notes do not give detailed information for "The Old Rugged Cross".
| Chart (2001) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[4] | 50 | |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[5] | 39 | |
| Chart (2002) | Position | |
| Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[6] | 39 | |
| US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] | 19 |
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country [8] | US [9] | ||
| 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 | |