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Live country albums are relatively scarce these days, and that’s regrettable. Granted, the studio is a remarkable place, yet there’s something about a quality concert recording–the immediacy and raw interaction with the audience–that no studio effort can match. While most concert albums are recorded at one location, Kenny Chesney created this collection from tapes of five years of shows at various locales. The material reflects the past eight years of his career, inclu (more…)

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After the sort of year that Kenny Chesney has experienced–from a whirlwind courtship through a short-lived marriage–a guy needs some time to chill. Thus it’s no surprise that The Road and the Radio finds the party-hearty country hunk in an uncommonly introspective mood. The soul-searching title track establishes the album’s intimacy and theme of taking stock, sustained through the bittersweet balladry of “Who You’d Be Today,” “In a Small Town,” “Freedom,” and “Like Me. (more…)

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Kenny Chesney may work the Jimmy Buffett mojo a little too hard on his CMA Award-winning album, When the Sun Goes Down. But he comes by it naturally, having vacationed at Myrtle Beach as a child and today owning a home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now comes his all-out island salute, Be As You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair), which surprises only in its concentration on the restorative vibe of beachfront life rather than the bikinis and rum-soaked nights. Intimate and s (more…)

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Though Kenny Chesney had been building a rabid fan base over the years, no one expected his 2002 release, the multi-platinum No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problems, to make him a superstar. But the Luttrell, Tenn., native had found a batch of songs that perfectly captured that scary no-man’s land between adolescence and adulthood, precisely where the bulk of his followers happened to live. On its sequel, When the Sun Goes Down, the protagonists are older, with kids on the way an (more…)