Mud on the Tires is the third album by American country music singer-songwriter Brad Paisley. Released in 2003 on Arista Nashville, it produced four hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: "Celebrity" (#3), "Little Moments" (#2), "Whiskey Lullaby" (#3), and the title track, which was a Number One. The album itself has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, while "Whiskey Lullaby" has been certified as a gold single. "Whiskey Lullaby" was also recorded by Jon Randall, who co-wrote the song, on his 2005 album Walking Among the Living.

"Is It Raining at Your House" is a cover of a single that was a #10-peaking country hit for Vern Gosdin, one of the song's co-writers, in 1990.

"The Cigar Song" is based on an urban legend about a man who purchases expensive cigars and buys insurance on them; after smoking them, he collects the insurance, claiming that he lost them in a "series of small fires".

Track listing

1. "Mud on the Tires" (Brad Paisley, Chris DuBois) - 3:28
2. "Celebrity" (Paisley) - 3:43
3. "Ain't Nothin' Like" (Don Sampson, Wynn Varble) - 3:35
4. "Little Moments" (Paisley, DuBois) - 3:39
5. "That's Love" (Paisley, DuBois, Kelley Lovelace) - 4:43
6. "Somebody Knows You Now" (Paisley) - 3:42
7. "Famous People" (DuBois, Chris Wallin) - 4:10
8. "Hold Me in Your Arms (And Let Me Fall)" (Paisley, DuBois, Lovelace) - 4:24
9. "Whiskey Lullaby" (Bill Anderson, Jon Randall) - 4:19
• duet with Alison Krauss
10. "The Best Thing That I Had Goin'" (Jerry Salley, Chris Stapleton) - 4:08
11. "The Cigar Song" (Paisley) - 3:37
12. "Make a Mistake" (Paisley) - 1:33
13. "Make a Mistake with Me" (Paisley) - 3:15
• instrumental
14. "Is It Raining at Your House" (Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon, Vern Gosdin) - 4:01
15. "Spaghetti Western Swing" (Paisley, Kevin Grantt, Rogers) - 4:32
• feat. Redd Volkaert
• narrative
16. "Farther Along" (traditional, arr. by Paisley) - 5:23
17. "Kung Pao" - 1:00
• hidden track
• feat. the Kung Pao Buckaroos (Bill Anderson, George Jones and Little Jimmy Dickens)

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