On the mostly instrumental "Play," Paisley experiments with jazz guitar and even tries his hand at heavy metal, he recently told an interviewer from the Charlotte Observer newspaper. The set also includes "Come on In," which the singer describes as a waltz, featuring vocals from the late Buck Owens.

"He wrote a song that works great as a duet," Paisley told Great American Country TV in April. "He played guitar, he sang on it, he did the harmony parts. It's perfect. It's incredibly perfectly tuned.

"The theme of the song is running into someone you haven't seen in a while, and anyway, he and I are singing that to one another now on this record," he added. "And it's really cool."

Vince Gill, B.B. King and Steve Wariner all make guest appearances on the set, which follows last year's "5th Gear." That album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and No. 3 on The Billboard 200 last summer, and earned the performer the highest first-week sales of his career, with more than 197,000 copies snatched up, according to a press release.

The album's first four singles--"Ticks," "Online," "Letter to Me" and "I'm Still a Guy"--all reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.