Time Well Wasted

Time Well Wasted
Time Well Wasted
Studio album by Brad Paisley
Released	August 16, 2005
Studio	The Castle and Sound Kitchen (Franklin, Tennessee); Emerald Entertainment and Thelma's East (Nashville, Tennessee).
Genre	Country
Length	65:30
Label	Arista Nashville
Producer	Frank Rogers
Brad Paisley chronology
Singles from Time Well Wasted
	"Alcohol"; Released: May 9, 2005; "When I Get Where I'm Going"; Released: October 10, 2005; "The World"; Released: March 13, 2006; "She's Everything"; Released: August 28, 2006;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	^[1]
Allmusic	^[2]
BBC Music	(average) ^[3]
Blender	^[4]
Entertainment Weekly	A− ^[5]
Mojo	^[6]
People	^[7]
Plugged In (publication)	(unfavorable) ^[8]
Rolling Stone	^[6]
Slant	^[9]
Stylus Magazine	B− ^[10]
USA Today	^[11]
The Village Voice	(positive) ^[12]

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]

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.

Content

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]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The World"	Brad Paisley Kelley Lovelace Lee Thomas Miller	4:01
2.	"Alcohol"	Paisley	4:52
3.	"Waitin' on a Woman"	Don Sampson Wynn Varble	4:32
4.	"I'll Take You Back"	Paisley Robert Arthur Tim Owens	4:23
5.	"She's Everything"	Paisley Wil Nance	4:26
6.	"You Need a Man Around Here"	Paisley Lovelace	3:33
7.	"Out in the Parkin' Lot" (duet with Alan Jackson)	Guy Clark Darrell Scott	4:43
8.	"Rainin' You"	Paisley Owens	4:16
9.	"Flowers"	Paisley Miller Chris DuBois	3:50
10.	"Love Is Never-Ending"	John Goodwin Bobby Terry	3:58
11.	"The Uncloudy Day"	Rev. J. Alwood	0:53
12.	"When I Get Where I'm Going" (duet with Dolly Parton)	Rivers Rutherford George Teren	4:08
13.	"Easy Money"	Paisley	4:14
14.	"Time Warp" (instrumental)	Paisley Frank Rogers	3:56
15.	"Time Well Wasted"	Lovelace Ashley Gorley	3:56
16.	"Cornography" (comedy sketch featuring James Burton and the Kung Pao Buckaroos)	Paisley Rogers Peter Tilden	3:56
17.	"Outtake 1" (hidden track)		0:15
18.	"Outtake 2" (hidden track)		0:13
19.	"Outtake 3" (hidden track)		0:35
20.	"Outtake 4" (hidden track)		0:34
21.	"Shatner Says Goodbye" (hidden track featuring William Shatner)		0:27

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.

Brad Paisley – lead vocals (1–13, 15–16), electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, 12-string electric guitar, hi-string acoustic guitar, mandolin
Jim "Moose" Brown – acoustic piano, keyboards, Hammond organ, backing vocals
Bernie Herms – acoustic piano
Gordon Mote – keyboards
Gary Hooker – electric guitar, 12-string electric guitar, backing vocals
James Burton – electric guitar (16)
Kendal Marcy – banjo, backing vocals
Randle Currie – steel guitar
Jerry Douglas – dobro
Mike Johnson – dobro, steel guitar
Bryan Sutton – mandolin
Kevin Grantt – bass guitar, tic tac bass, upright bass, backing vocals
Kenny Lewis – bass guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Terry – bass guitar
Ben Sesar – drums
Eric Darken – percussion, vibraphone
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin
Justin Williamson – fiddle
Wes Hightower – backing vocals
Scott Hamilton and "The 12 Steps" – gang vocals (2)
Robert Arthur and Tim Owens – "cry babies" (4)
Alan Jackson – lead and harmony vocals (7)
Dolly Parton – harmony vocals (12)
"The Kung Pao Buckaroos" (George Jones, Little Jimmy Dickens and Bill Anderson, with Dolly Parton as "Miss Kitty") – featured vocals (16)
William Shatner – featured vocals (21)

Production

Frank Rogers – producer
Chris DuBois – executive producer
Richard Barrow – recording
Brian David Willis – recording, digital editing
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

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2005–07)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[15]	82
UK Country Albums (OCC)^[16]	4
US Billboard 200^[17]	2
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[18]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)	Position
US Billboard 200^[19]	130
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[20]	20

Chart (2006)	Position
US Billboard 200^[21]	62
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[22]	17

Chart (2007)	Position
US Billboard 200^[23]	79
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[24]	17

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[25]	Gold	50,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[26]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Album Cover

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

References

^ Kathy Coleman. "Brad Paisley - 'Time Well Wasted'". About.com Entertainment. About.com. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Time Well Wasted at AllMusic
^ Chris Jones (August 18, 2005). "Review of Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted". BBC Music. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Robert Christgau (October 2005). "Brad Paisley: Time Well Wasted". Blender. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Chris Willman (August 19, 2005). "Time Well Wasted Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted CD Album". CD Universe. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Ralph Novak (August 22, 2005). "Picks and Pans Review: Brad Paisley (Time Well Wasted)". People. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Marcus Yoars; Bob Smithouser. "Brad Paisley: Time Well Wasted". Plugged In (publication). Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Jonathan Keefe (August 15, 2005). "Brad Paisley: Time Well Wasted". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Anthony Easton (August 17, 2005). "Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted - Review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Brian Mansfield (August 22, 2005). "Paisley's 'Time' to shine (Brad Paisley, Time Well Wasted)". USA Today. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ Robert Christgau (July 26, 2005). "Men Like Them". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
^ "41st Annual CMA Awards | Award Winners". Cmaawards.com. Retrieved August 16, 2025.
^ "Brad Paisley notches one more number one". Country Standard Time. September 8, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2008.
^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 211.
^ "Official Country Artists Albums Chart on 1/5/2005 – Top 20". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
^ "Brad Paisley Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
^ "Brad Paisley Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2006". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2006". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.
^ "Canadian album certifications – Brad Paisley – Time Well Wsted". Music Canada.
^ "American album certifications – Brad Paisley – Time Well Wsted". Recording Industry Association of America.

[1] Kathy Coleman. "Brad Paisley - 'Time Well Wasted'". About.com Entertainment. About.com. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[2] Time Well Wasted at AllMusic

[3] Chris Jones (August 18, 2005). "Review of Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted". BBC Music. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[4] Robert Christgau (October 2005). "Brad Paisley: Time Well Wasted". Blender. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[5] Chris Willman (August 19, 2005). "Time Well Wasted Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 12, 2013.

[cduniverse-6] "Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted CD Album". CD Universe. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[7] Ralph Novak (August 22, 2005). "Picks and Pans Review: Brad Paisley (Time Well Wasted)". People. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[8] Marcus Yoars; Bob Smithouser. "Brad Paisley: Time Well Wasted". Plugged In (publication). Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[9] Jonathan Keefe (August 15, 2005). "Brad Paisley: Time Well Wasted". Slant Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[10] Anthony Easton (August 17, 2005). "Brad Paisley - Time Well Wasted - Review". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[11] Brian Mansfield (August 22, 2005). "Paisley's 'Time' to shine (Brad Paisley, Time Well Wasted)". USA Today. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[12] Robert Christgau (July 26, 2005). "Men Like Them". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2013.

[13] "41st Annual CMA Awards | Award Winners". Cmaawards.com. Retrieved August 16, 2025.

[14] "Brad Paisley notches one more number one". Country Standard Time. September 8, 2008. Retrieved September 9, 2008.

[15] Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 211.

[ac_UKCountry_-16] "Official Country Artists Albums Chart on 1/5/2005 – Top 20". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 12, 2025.

[ac_Billboard200_Brad_Paisley-17] "Brad Paisley Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved March 12, 2025.

[ac_BillboardCountry_Brad_Paisley-18] "Brad Paisley Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved March 12, 2025.

[19] "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[20] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[21] "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2006". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[22] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2006". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[23] "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[24] "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved November 13, 2020.

[CanadaBrad_PaisleyTime_Well_WstedalbumCertRef-25] "Canadian album certifications – Brad Paisley – Time Well Wsted". Music Canada.

[United_StatesBrad_PaisleyTime_Well_WstedalbumCertRef-26] "American album certifications – Brad Paisley – Time Well Wsted". Recording Industry Association of America.

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