"Heaven South" is a song recorded by American

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artist

Brad Paisley Bradley Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting with his 1999 debut album ''Who Needs Pictures'', he has released eleven studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashvil ...

. It was released on October 30, 2017, by

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as the third single from his eleventh studio album, '' Love and War''. Paisley co-wrote the song with

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and

Chris DuBois Charles Christopher DuBois is a songwriter and music publisher based out of Nashville, Tennessee. DuBois began his music career as ASCAP Nashville Director of Membership in 1993. He left ASCAP in 1999 to form Sea Gayle Music with business partne ...

, and co-produced it with Luke Wooten.

Content

Paisley wrote the song with frequent collaborator

and singer

. ''

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'' described the song as a "nostalgic anthem" and "a mid-tempo tour of the Southern everytown that’s anchored by a brightly picked mandolin, Paisley’s trademark Telecaster twang and a giant, arena-ready 'whoa-oh' chorus." The song is a list of positive imagery of the

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, referring to such imagery as "''just another day in Heaven south''."

Music video

The video for the song was filmed in

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. It features footage of the town square, along with back roads and fields. Starring in the video are Paisley's road band and over 400 extras. He recruited the extras by announcing the video shoot to fans on his

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account.

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References

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