After a year-long break from touring and recording, country singer and songwriter Kenny Chesney released his latest album, Hemingway's Whiskey, on September 28.
Chesney has recorded 16 albums which have produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Chesney has received numerous awards, including six Academy of Country Music awards, four consecutive Entertainer of the Year Awards, and six Country Music Association awards. He is one of the most popular touring acts in all of music, regularly selling out the venues at which he performs. His "Flip-Flop Summer Tour" was the highest-grossing country road trip of 2007.
Hemingway's Whiskey is the fourteenth studio album by the American country music recording artist, and it was released through BNA Records.
The album leads off with his newest hit single “The Boys of Fall,” a near perfect description of life in small town America. There's a line in the song that says: "In little towns like mine, that's all we got," and that's the way it is for many small towns all over the country. It is easy to understand that Chesney is trying to relate to those who grew up the way he did, and that he is connecting to his fans on a very personal level.
A feel good, toe-tapper, “Coastal,” is about breaking away from the routine of hard-working life and heading off on vacation. Listening to this song immediately following the previous track, “Live a Little (Love a Lot),” one is reminded of the simpler pleasures in life that not only must be cherished, but also made time for. Again, Chesney is connecting to his fans on a personal level, but in this song, it seems to be directed to those who work too hard in this tough economy.
“Where I Grew Up” proves to be one of the album's most touching songs. This track talks about dozens of scenarios that nearly every person has gone through in their lives. When we were all kids, it is imaginable that many of us said that we hope to never grow up. The message of this song is incredibly powerful in that it teaches that there are things in our lives that force us to grow up. What Chesney tries to communicate is that we must always remember that lesson, in which it is hard to hold on to the idea of never growing up. He also shows us that music is one of the greatest treasures in the world because it is an escape from the real world, and he gives us that in the song Reality. Finally, Chesney ends the album with the title track, “Hemingway's Whiskey”, a song which was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea. The song is beautiful and mellow, and an easy-going song for anyone's listening pleasure.
Every single song on this album is amazing, and it just goes to show just how great of an artist Kenny Chesney really is. Although only one of the songs has become a hit single so far, nearly every song has the potential to rise up on the music charts.
Chesney has recorded 16 albums which have produced more than 30 Top Ten singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Chesney has received numerous awards, including six Academy of Country Music awards, four consecutive Entertainer of the Year Awards, and six Country Music Association awards. He is one of the most popular touring acts in all of music, regularly selling out the venues at which he performs. His "Flip-Flop Summer Tour" was the highest-grossing country road trip of 2007.
Hemingway's Whiskey is the fourteenth studio album by the American country music recording artist, and it was released through BNA Records.
The album leads off with his newest hit single “The Boys of Fall,” a near perfect description of life in small town America. There's a line in the song that says: "In little towns like mine, that's all we got," and that's the way it is for many small towns all over the country. It is easy to understand that Chesney is trying to relate to those who grew up the way he did, and that he is connecting to his fans on a very personal level.
A feel good, toe-tapper, “Coastal,” is about breaking away from the routine of hard-working life and heading off on vacation. Listening to this song immediately following the previous track, “Live a Little (Love a Lot),” one is reminded of the simpler pleasures in life that not only must be cherished, but also made time for. Again, Chesney is connecting to his fans on a personal level, but in this song, it seems to be directed to those who work too hard in this tough economy.
“Where I Grew Up” proves to be one of the album's most touching songs. This track talks about dozens of scenarios that nearly every person has gone through in their lives. When we were all kids, it is imaginable that many of us said that we hope to never grow up. The message of this song is incredibly powerful in that it teaches that there are things in our lives that force us to grow up. What Chesney tries to communicate is that we must always remember that lesson, in which it is hard to hold on to the idea of never growing up. He also shows us that music is one of the greatest treasures in the world because it is an escape from the real world, and he gives us that in the song Reality. Finally, Chesney ends the album with the title track, “Hemingway's Whiskey”, a song which was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea. The song is beautiful and mellow, and an easy-going song for anyone's listening pleasure.
Every single song on this album is amazing, and it just goes to show just how great of an artist Kenny Chesney really is. Although only one of the songs has become a hit single so far, nearly every song has the potential to rise up on the music charts.
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