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Cari lettori e lettrici, con questa recensione sono orgoglioso di portare al debutto su DeBaser un grande cantante, purtroppo praticamente sconosciuto alle nostre latitudini: Kenny Chesney da Knoxville, Tennessee: quindici anni di onorata carriera, con undici album in studio all'attivo, una bellissima voce e una serie infinita di grandissime canzoni; ballate romantiche come "I Lost It", "You Had Me From Hello", "There Goes My Life" e scanzonate espressioni di felicità e solarità come "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy", "How Forever Feels" o "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems", canzoni universali, in cui è facile riconoscersi, identificarsi, canzoni orecchiabili ma mai e poi mai banali e scontate, canzoni magiche, che hanno il gusto e la bellezza delle cose semplici, pure, autentiche. GREAT SINGER, GREAT VOICE, GREAT SONGS.
L'opera prima di Kenny è questo "In My Wildest Dreams" datato 1993, 10 canzoni per poco più di trenta minuti di pura american country music: quel country vivace, diretto, scanzonato e un po' ruspante, quello che ti fa canticchiare, schioccare le dita e battere i piedi a ritmo di musica, con un bel sorriso a 32 denti stampato in faccia. Già, è praticamente impossibile restare fermi ascoltando canzoni come l'opener "Whatever It Takes", "High And Dry", "I Want My Rib Back", "I'd Love To Change Your Name" o "I Finally Found Somebody": chitarre, basso, armonica e pianoforte danno vita a un inconfondibile concentrato di vibrazioni positive che trova i suoi apici nella titletrack "In My Wildest Dreams" e in "Somebody's Callin". Il ritmo rallenta e l'ascoltatore può rilassarsi e tirare il fiato con un bel trio di ballate, di cui lo zio Kenny è uno stupendo interprete: "Angel Loved The Devil" e soprattutto le bellissime "The Tin Man", dall'intro pianistica quasi fiabesca e "When She Calls Me Baby", che è lì quasi per ricordarci che "Me And You", la prima, meravigliosa hit è proprio lì dietro l'angolo.
In conclusione, ci troviamo davanti ad un esordio ancora un po' acerbo e privo delle sonorità variegate e delle contaminazioni che affioreranno con frequenza sempre maggiore nei lavori della maturità, ma rimane tuttavia un gran bel disco, piacevole e attuale nel 1970 così come nel 2009 o nel 2050. Dieci belle canzoni senza nessuna pretesa se non quella di divertire e intrattenere l'ascoltatore, dieci belle canzoni che saranno però solo l'inizio per questo straordinario performer che è entrato a pieno titolo nel novero delle mie icone della grande musica.
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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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