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Start a Band

"Start a Band" is the title of a duet between country music

Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
artists Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley

Brad Douglas Paisley is a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting with the release of his 1999 album Who Needs Pictures, Paisley has recorded six studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified gold or higher by the RIAA....
and Keith Urban

Keith Urban

Keith Lionel Urban is an Australian Grammy Award- and ARIA Award-winning country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States....
. It is the first single from Paisley's sixth studio album, Play
Play (Brad Paisley album)

Play, also known as Play: The Guitar Album, is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released on November 4, 2008 ....
, and one of only four non-instrumental tracks on the album. It is Paisley's twenty-second entry on the Billboard country charts, and Urban's eighteenth.

rt a Band" is one of only four non-instrumental tracks on Play.

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"Start a Band" is the title of a duet between country music

Country music

Brad Paisley

Keith Urban

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"Start a Band" is one of only four non-instrumental tracks on Play. Both Paisley and Urban sing and play guitar on the song, which is a moderate up-tempo in which the narrators decide that they will start a band instead of pursuing more academical ventures. In the chorus, they suggest to others who are "living in a world that they don't understand" that they, too, should "get [themselves] some buddies and start a band". According to Great American Country

Great American Country

Great American Country , is a Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC....
, Paisley described the song to the Cleveland Plain Dealer as "probably not what you think, in the sense that it's not a blazing-fast thing…It's more of a rockin' Eagles

Eagles

The Eagles are an American rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. The group chose the name Eagles as a nod to The Byrds ....
-style tune, like back when Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an United States guitarist, songwriter, and rock musician. He has been a member of three successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm , and The Eagles....
and Don Felder

Don Felder

Donald William Felder is an American rock musician who was a member of the Eagles from 1974–1980 and from 1994–2001. Felder was the primary guitar soloist and writer of the Eagles' hit song "Hotel California "....
would play those harmony parts."

The song debuted at #30 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales....
charts dated for September 27, 2008. It reached Number One on the chart week of January 24, 2009, becoming Paisley's thirteenth Number One song (and ninth consecutive), as well as Urban's ninth Number One.

Chart positions

Chart (2008-2009)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	55
Canadian Radio & Records Country Singles	1
Canadian Hot 100	51