Brad Paisley - I'm Gonna Miss Her

What this video is

Released in February 2002, 'I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)' arrived during a period when CMT and country radio were actively embracing humorous novelty material alongside traditional ballads. The video exemplifies an early-2000s trend of high-production country music videos that deployed mainstream celebrity cameos to bridge country and broader pop-culture audiences. The song's comedic premise — a man…

Why it matters

A landmark example of the comedic country music video form, this production helped establish Brad Paisley's identity as a witty, guitar-forward country artist capable of blending humor and musicianship. Its CMA Video of the Year win in 2002 validated the novelty-comedy subgenre within Nashville's…

The director

Peter Zavadil is a music video director active in the country music space in the early 2000s. He directed Brad Paisley's 'I'm Gonna Miss Her,' which premiered February 22, 2002, on CMT and went on to win the CMA Award for Country Music Video of the Year in…