Nashville Guitar Tone

Actually, I went to listen and one guitar is a straight acoustic, one sounds like an acoustic through an amp, with a vibrato of some kind on it.  Another one sounds like a strat through a small fender, and there is also a lapsteel..

So which guitar is the OP talking about? there are at least 3 guitars throughout this song.

I'm not sure a Strat will get you closer than a Tele! The attack sounds like pure Tele to me...

Yeah that's it, it's more prominent between 2:40 and 2:50

I'm just being a shmuck! A strat could get that tone no problem. Pick back at the bridge maybe. But as svart says it could be an electric acoustic with some kind of tremelo on it. Piezos can have a bright attack. I'm going to try using a piezo to get that tone. Great idea.

I've recorded many of them up here my friend, I'm here in Nashville for the weekend actually. But what I can tell you is the process for most guys is really really simple. Normally I'll let the player go in and put the mics on his cabinet, I'll get a listen, if something doesn't sound quite right I'll have someone adjust in increments of 1/2" which mic depends on if it should be brighter or more mellow, but usually 80% of the time that doesn't happen. The position for the mics is always a 57 just to the right of the center cone, like where the woofer and cap meet, and then a Royer 121 or a Cascade Fathead will be on the edge of the woofer, both mics the same exact distance from the grill.

Most of the time like I said, it's Tweed Deluxes or Matchless. The guitar you're talking about to me, sounds like a tele. I don't think it's a piezo acoustic or anything like that.
Now, like I said earlier, there is something different about the tone. To me it's a little too bright, sounds kind of scooped almost. Either they used something like Amplitube, or whoever mixed it scooped and put a ton of 8k on that guitar.

If you're looking for that general sound, but better, go with the Deluxe (or the Wampler Tweed Pedal through a nice clean tube amp) and a Telecaster mic'd up like I described. Don't put much heat on it and it'll have that nice snap and twang. If you really wanna go crazy put Mojotone Broadcaster pickups in the tele, those pickups are just a beautiful combination of all the classic and modern tele sounds bunched into one pickup, I love them.

As mobeach says, at around 2:40 in the video the guitar in question pops out with an almost piano-like clarity and vibe going. Sounds like a gentle trem or other modulation effect is on it as well.  Maybe recorded rather loud, too, to capture that fatness that seems to increase with volume.

Even though I don't write in this style, this sound is a must-have IMHO. Thanks to everybody for the advice.

Hmm, so the piano-like tone originates from the longer scale, heavier strings and B-to-B (or similar) tuning. Awesome. Now I have something else on my want list:

Fender Blacktop Tele

Man, it never ends!

Not a Tele... that's a Baritone. If not a Jerry Jones, it's an original Danelectro.
"some kind of subtle vibrato sound"... that's called tremolo.

Bobbritt, " that's called tremolo." No need to crack wise, I've only been playing a few years now ;-)  The sound on that track was a little unusual, I thought perhaps a pedal with a "vibrato" or "tremelo" setting. Perhaps what I was noticing was because of it being a baritone, as you said, and that's why it sounded strange to me.

I've have done a hundred tracks that sound a lot like that, and I've used a Tele. I'm sure you know what I mean :-)

If that's a baritone guitar, that's really cool, I've never used one. Almost any electric with heavy gauge strings can be made to sound like that, but the Tele's the easiest to dial in.

Yep... that or a Deluxe.... one of the two with at tele tuned down. Just doesn't sounds like a baritone guitar to me. But hell if someone will find out who played on that song I'll ask them what they used.