Kenny Chesney
In My Wildest Dreams

THE REVIEW

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.