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Dear readers, with this review I am proud to debut on DeBaser a great singer, unfortunately practically unknown in our latitudes: Kenny Chesney from Knoxville, Tennessee: fifteen years of honorable career, with eleven studio albums to his name, a beautiful voice and an endless series of great songs; romantic ballads like "I Lost It", "You Had Me From Hello", "There Goes My Life," and carefree expressions of happiness and sunshine like "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy", "How Forever Feels", or "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems," universal songs, in which it is easy to recognize and identify oneself, catchy yet never, ever banal and predictable, magical songs that have the taste and beauty of simple, pure, authentic things. GREAT SINGER, GREAT VOICE, GREAT SONGS.
Kenny's debut work is this "In My Wildest Dreams" dated 1993, 10 songs for just over thirty minutes of pure American country music: that lively, direct, carefree, and somewhat rustic country that makes you hum, snap your fingers, and tap your feet to the music, with a big 32-tooth smile on your face. Yes, it is practically impossible to stay still while listening to songs like the opener "Whatever It Takes", "High And Dry", "I Want My Rib Back", "I'd Love To Change Your Name", or "I Finally Found Somebody": guitars, bass, harmonica, and piano give life to an unmistakable concentrate of positive vibes that reaches its peaks in the title track "In My Wildest Dreams" and in "Somebody's Callin." The tempo slows down and the listener can relax and catch their breath with a nice trio of ballads, of which Uncle Kenny is a wonderful interpreter: "Angel Loved The Devil" and especially the beautiful "The Tin Man", with an almost fairy-tale piano intro and "When She Calls Me Baby", which is there almost to remind us that "Me And You", the first, wonderful hit, is just around the corner.
In conclusion, we are faced with a debut still a bit raw and lacking the varied sounds and contaminations that will emerge with increasing frequency in the works of maturity, but it remains nonetheless a great record, enjoyable and current in 1970 as well as in 2009 or 2050. Ten beautiful songs with no other claim than to entertain and amuse the listener, ten beautiful songs that will, however, just be the beginning for this extraordinary performer who has become one of my great music icons.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Whatever It Takes (03:03)
Kenny Chesney & Peyton Manning
Well, I've been drawing little hearts in the morning paper
Lookin' for a house an' a couple of acres
You'll be mine some time, sooner or later and I can't wait.
Like a busy ol' bee savin' up it's honey
Honey I'm savin' up all my money
To have you I'll do anything I have to,
Whatever it takes.
Whatever it takes to win your love
I'll hire me an airplane,
Have it paint your name up in the sky above
I'll tell the world I'm yours,
Put it on a billboard out on the interstate
If it takes forever to get us together
Honey, I'll do whatever it takes.
--- Instrumental ---
Well, I've been yellin' your name from a lookout mountain
Tossing my pennies in a downtown fountain
Makin' my wishes I'm hopin' they're countin' for loves sake
I'll swim upstream in a ragin' river
Walk through fire til you get the picture
I swear I'll bare anything to get there
Whatever it takes.
Whatever it takes to win your love first
I'll hire me an airplane,
Have it paint your name up in the sky above
I'll tell the world I'm yours,
Put it on a billboard out on the interstate
If it takes forever to get us together
Honey, I'll do whatever it takes.
--- Instrumental ---
Whatever it takes to win your love
I'll hire me an airplane,
Have it paint your name up in the sky above
Yeah, I'll tell the world I'm yours,
Put it on a billboard out on the interstate
If it takes forever to get us together
Honey, I'll do whatever it takes.
Well, if it takes forever to get us together
Honey, I'll do whatever it takes...
03 The Tin Man (03:30)
Saw a man in the movies that didn't have a heart
How I wish I could give him mine
Then I wouldn't have to feel it breaking all apart
And this emptiness inside would suit me fine.
It's times like these I wish I were a tin man
You could hurt me all you wanted and I'd never even know
I'd give anything just to be the tin man
And I wouldn't have a heart and I wouldn't need a soul.
I couldn't see your leavin' comin'
You took me by surprise
Even now it still seems like a dream
But I know I can't be dreamin'
'Cause as I lay down each night
The pain so great that it won't let me sleep.
It's times like these I wish I were a tin man
You could hurt me all you wanted and I'd never even know
I'd give anything just to be the tin man
And I wouldn't have a heart and I wouldn't need a soul.
Well, I'd give anything just to be the tin man
And I wouldn't have a heart and I wouldn't miss you so...
04 High and Dry (03:01)
(Michael Gieger/Michael Huffman/Woody Mullis)
Last night, I think, I put that home fire out,
Came in late to a cold dark house.
I guess she thinks she got me good this time.
She took all of hers, and most of mine.
She left me high, but I aint dry,
Well, I've got beer and tears to cry.
Well I should be feelin' low,
Up that creek that we all know.
That woman left me high, but I aint dry.
Say bar tender fill `er up again.
Let's us keep me in the shape I'm in.
And if I can't get her memory to drown,
Well, I'll take it for a swim all over town.
She left me high, but I aint dry,
Well, I've got beer and tears to cry.
Well I should be feelin' low,
Up that creek that we all know.
That woman left me high, but I aint dry.
Hell, I should be feelin' low,
Up that creek that we all know.
Yeah, that woman left me high, but I aint dry.
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