"I'm Still a Guy" is a single

Single (music)

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 by American

United States

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 country music singer Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley

Brad Douglas Paisley is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His style crosses between traditional country music and Southern rock, and his songs are frequently laced with humor and pop culture references....

. It is the fourth single released from his 2007 album 5th Gear

5th Gear (album)

-Musicians:*Ron Block – banjo*Jim "Moose" Brown – B-3 organ, Wurlitzer organ, piano on "When We All Get to Heaven"*Randle Currie – steel guitar*Eric Darken – percussion*Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar, upright bass...

. As with the other three singles from that album, "I'm Still a Guy" has reached Number One on the Billboard

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Hot Country Songs

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Content

"I'm Still a Guy" is a mid-tempo set in triple meter, written by Paisley along with Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller

Lee Thomas Miller

Lee Thomas Miller is an American country music songwriter and occasional record producer. His credits include the Number One country hits "The World" and "I'm Still a Guy" for Brad Paisley and "You're Gonna Miss This" for Trace Adkins, as well as Top Ten hits for Terri Clark, Joe Nichols, and...

. In the song, the narrator explains to his female companion that he is "still a guy", despite his companion's attempts to correct his stereotypical behavior, and despite society's attempts to apply feminine traits to men.

Paisley said that his intention was to "capture this struggle a little bit between men and women in a playful way". Initially, Paisley was not certain if a female audience would accept the song, so he sang it to his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who was pregnant at the time. According to Miller, she "laughed long and hard at all the right places".

Reception

Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a B- rating. Coyne says that while the song would be great to create energy at a concert, it "lacks the strength to be a viable radio single. Instead, it sounds more like a ditty rather than a substantive song."

Music video

There were 2 videos released for this song, but both of them were live. The 1st version was from the 2008 CMT Music Awards. Hank Williams, Jr. sang the 2nd verse, & more afterwards here. The 2nd version, released to GAC, was an acoustic performance taken from his August 2007 GAC special, "Brad Paisley: 5th Gear." The GAC video for, "Ticks," was also taken from this special. In the special, he sings, "Ticks," right after this song.

Personnel

• Randle Currie - steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  
• Eric Darken - percussion
• Kevin "Swine" Grantt - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Wes Hightower - background vocals
• Gary Hooker - electric guitar
• Gordon Mote - piano
  Piano
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• Brad Paisley - lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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• Ben Sesar - drums
• Justin Williamson - fiddle
  Fiddle
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Chart performance

The song debuted at number 48 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...

chart dated March 8, 2008, moving up to number 28 the next week. It climbed to Number One on the country chart dated May 31, 2008, and stayed there for three weeks, giving Paisley his seventh consecutive Number One single and eleventh overall.

Chart (2008)	Peak Position