Kenny Chesney - Hemingway's Whiskey
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Artist: Kenny ChesneyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-09-28
Music Label: SONY NASHVILLE/ BNA
Soundtracks:
- The Boys of Fall
- Live A Little
- Coastal
- You And Tequila (featuring Grace Potter)
- Seven Days
- Small Y'all (Duet with George Jones)
- Where I Grew Up
- Reality
- Round And Round
- Somewhere With You
- Hemingway's Whiskey
Music reviews of Hemingway's Whiskey
Music Review: Chesney Shares Heartfelt Whiskey with Hemingway
Rating: 4 Stars
Prime Cuts: Hemingway's Whiskey, The Boys of Fall, Round and Round
Like a shaken snow ball, Chesney's "Hemingway's Whiskey" presents flurries of fresh and thought provoking ideas. But after they have settled, a beautiful landscape of unforgettable melodies and heart-tugging tunes surfaces. Not since 1994's "Tin Man" has Chesney waxes such eloquence in the department of the heart. This truly is a mature record that is also unmistakably Chesney's best in a long while. Perhaps this is due to the fact that this record was made when Chesney took a hiatus from touring. With more time invested into the making of this record, the prodigious dividends are definitely apparent. Also, Chesney has wisely not fallen into the dire temptation of many country artist today, this time Chesney has only co-written one cut ("Reality") with the rest coming from a red carpet of Nashville's best including Paul Overstreet, Matraca Berg, Deana Carter, David Lee Murphy, Neil Thrasher and even Guy Clark.
Most impressive are the songs that make a home run for the heart. Lead single "The Boys of Fall" may be a story about a football player but underneath the innocuous story are lessons about brotherhood, friendship and faith. "The Boys of Fall" has such vivid and descriptive lyrics that it ought to resound with anyone who has live through high school football before. Co-written by Lee Brice "Seven Days a Thousand Times" is one of those songs that will haunt you with bittersweet memories long after the song has ended. A laid back guitar driven ballad "Seven Days" tells of how a short term romance stayed in the heart of the protagonist for years and years to come. "Where I Grew Up," on the hand, is Chesney's nod back to his roots. Lyrically it may not chart any new tuff. Nevertheless, thumbs are up for Chesney's believable rendition.
Paul Overstreet, who co-wrote Chesney's signature hit "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," wets his pen again with "Round and Round." Packed with an inspirational message to enjoy each moment we have, "Round and Round" with its punchy pop melody has much to say to all of us who are getting complacent with life. Just like he has done on his previous albums before, Chesney has taken a look back in tackling three cover songs. There's much to rejoice with Chesney's take of Randy Travis and George Jones' "Small Y'all." "Small Y'all" harkens us back to the Pre-Millennium Chesney on this melodious and yet humorous ode to domestic disharmony. "You and Tequila" which first appears on Deana Carter's "I'm Just a Girl" CD is perhaps the darkest entry here made even more haunting by the harmony vocals of rocker Grace Porter. The last cover is a gorgeous take of Guy Clark "Hemingway's Whiskey." "Hemingway" is a gentle ballad that guises layers of frustrations about the deliberating muse that has often plagued writers.
Nevertheless, a couple of tracks fail to past muster: "Live a Little" is a purely aimed at radio with its upbeat wall of noise production. While Chesney's own "Reality" which speaks about is escapism is tad on the "I heard it all before" side. Regardless, "Hemingway's Whiskey" is not a record that you just can get through with one listen. Rather, the sentiments, the messages, the tunes will shake us up to re-evaluate our priorities and after which it will leave us with a beautiful landscape that will make us come back to appreciate it again and again.
Description of Hemingway's Whiskey
Kenny Chesney has played NFL football stadiums by the dozen, received 4 Country Music Association as well as 4 consecutive Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year Awards, had nineteen #1 singles, and has sold over 27 million albums and is the only artist in any genre to sell over a million tickets each of the past eight summers. When he made the decision to scale back from touring this year, it was in large part so that he could take the time he wanted to really enjoy the process of making a new studio record. Now, Chesney has released what will perhaps become his most enduring album, Hemingway s Whiskey.With the lead single "The Boys of Fall," a song that encapsulates the potency of the high school football experience for anyone who s ever put on pads and played under the Friday night lights, Chesney started looking at the themes that have always marked his music and sought to make the songs richer, more nuanced and perhaps offer deeper insight to how they feel or shaped the singer (and the audience s) life.
Having recorded seven albums since his first Greatest Hits, now certified quadruple platinum, Chesney has sung a lot of songs, covered a lot of ground musically and defined a genre that celebrated growing up in small towns, loving the beach and knowing how to kick back. His records are not only the soundtrack of country radio in the 21st century, but are the sound of summer for people who plan their vacations around trips to go see Chesney somewhere each year.
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