When I Get Where I'm Going

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"When I Get Where I'm Going" is Brad Paisley's second single from his album Time Well Wasted and is his fourteenth career single (not counting album cuts). It also features vocals from Dolly Parton. The song was written by George Teren and Rivers Rutherford.

[edit] Chart performance

The song reached #1 on March 4, 2006, giving Brad Paisley the fifth #1 of his career. It also gave Parton her first foray into the top of the country chart since 1991's "Rockin' Years", a duet with Ricky Van Shelton. At age 60 years, one month and 14 days, Parton became the oldest woman to have a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and the third-oldest overall (behind Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, who were 70 and 61, respectively).

[edit] Overview

The video of this song features footage of Paisley singing in a forest, as well as home movies of Brad with his granddad, Warren L. Jarvis. He also holds up photos of himself with Jarvis and his aunt Rita Takach. The extended version of the video ends with Jarvis in a home movie saying "Come on in and rock awhile!" and Brad smiling when he looks up from his guitar playing and sees this. It also features many different people holding photographs of loved ones who have presumably died. Two notable people featured in this video are Michael Reagan, who is shown holding a photograph of his father Ronald Reagan, and Teresa Earnhardt, who is shown sitting in front of a painted portrait of her husband, the late NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. Although she does vocals on the song, Dolly Parton is not shown singing in the video. However, she is shown holding a picture of a loved one. She kisses her hand then touches the photograph in this scene. John Carter Cash is featured holding a photo of his parents, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Various unknown people hold up photos of relatives who have passed on throughout as well.