Brad Paisley has definitely left his comfort zone on his sizzling new single “Southern Comfort Zone,” and the country superstar’s a little nervous about it…

Brad reveals to the Tennessean he’s never felt as vulnerable as he does dropping this track.

“I had a very dark couple of weeks in the middle of this where I felt like, “˜What are we doing here? We’ve lost our minds’” he says.

But Brad’s new out-of-the-box thinking eventually stuck thanks to some encouragement from his wife. In fact, his wife was “one of the biggest inspirations” for Brad’s new found sound.

For his new music, Brad traded in his fancy recording studio on Nashville’s Music Row for a more toned-down, organic recording process in an old farmhouse behind his home.

“It’s a big experiment”¦ Every song should, at some moment, do to you what my dog does when I say a command he doesn’t understand: His head goes sideways,” he says. “And every song should have that moment in a good way.”

Brad’s as-of-yet untitled 10^th studio album drops April 9^th.