Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Kenny Chesney - Be As You Are - thumbs up!
I've been carting the new Kenny Chesney album, Be As You Are, around for a couple of weeks now, and I finally got a chance to listen to it. And I definitely like it.
Chesney is a multi-platinum country artist. He sells millions of copies of every CD he puts out. He went to his label a while back and said, "Hey, I'd like to do an album of all island songs." Be As You Are is the result.
Maybe it's just that I'm a fairly recent convert to country music, but I find nothing at all wrong and quite a bit to like with this CD. The title track and "Old Blue Chair" are probably my favorites. They sound like they came right off a mid-70's Buffett album, with a slightly updated groove and perhaps a bit more of a contemporary Nashville sound. I also really like "Guitars and Tiki Bars" - "When I've had it up to here/I head down there" is one of my favorite lines on the whole album.
I've got a feeling that a couple of these songs will make it into my own repertoire sometime soon.
Chesney is a multi-platinum country artist. He sells millions of copies of every CD he puts out. He went to his label a while back and said, "Hey, I'd like to do an album of all island songs." Be As You Are is the result.
Maybe it's just that I'm a fairly recent convert to country music, but I find nothing at all wrong and quite a bit to like with this CD. The title track and "Old Blue Chair" are probably my favorites. They sound like they came right off a mid-70's Buffett album, with a slightly updated groove and perhaps a bit more of a contemporary Nashville sound. I also really like "Guitars and Tiki Bars" - "When I've had it up to here/I head down there" is one of my favorite lines on the whole album.
I've got a feeling that a couple of these songs will make it into my own repertoire sometime soon.
# posted by Loren Davidson @ 12:24 PM 
