Songs Mentioning the Beatles: American Saturday Night

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At the beginning, in the teaser, I warned you that there’d be country music. It didn’t take long, alphabetically speaking, to make good on that threat, did it! That means our first “Linda? NO!” warning of the month, and — shocker — a relatively new song! American Saturday Night - Brad Paisley So here you not only have a Beatles reference in a country song, but a pretty rockin’ Beatles reference in a country song! We aren’t talking “Act Naturally” (the Buck Owens song that the Beatles covered on Yesterday and Today) here. Nope, it’s their 1968 song “Back in the USSR” getting the shout-out. You’re probably surprised that I’m using something from an era when Hank Williams was not alive. Brad Paisley is a great instrumentalist. This just isn’t the country music I call “country music.” I’m not saying this isn’t good, just that it sounds more like it belongs on side two of the Eagles’ On the Border album (between “James Dean” and “Ol’ 55,” or maybe on side one after “My Man” ) than on my country playlist between Lefty Frizzell and George Jones. (Actually, I do have a playlist for songs that sound like this, I call it “crock,” as in “country-rock.”) A little humor (“Everywhere has something that they’re known for, ah but usually it washes up on our shore”) about the international flavor of our lives here in the good ol’ U.S.A. American Saturday Night Written by Brad Paisley, Kelley Lovelace, and Ashley Gorley Recorded by Brad Paisley From American Saturday Night, 2009 BEATLE REFERENCE LYRICS: Listening to the Beatles singing “Back in the USSR”