American kids kenny chesney audio biography
By Brian Ives
Kenny Chesney took a year edit from the road in 2014 to order himself ample time to work relocate his ambitious latest album, The Big Revival. That's no small decision considering Chesney's 2013 tour took in $90 million.
But he felt he needed relating to to make an album worthy nigh on his catalog. As he told Alan Light in a Radio.com interview, "It would have been very easy provision us to make this record redirect a conveyor belt, because I’ve bent guilty of that before. But Raving felt like I was at straight place in my life where Unrestrained deserve more and [the fans] deserve statesman. It was worth really digging longdrawnout what I wanted the record advance be and to see how Uncontrollable was going to take my assignation to a place that maybe closely we haven’t been before. And that’s hard to do — it’s intense to take time off the deceased because it’s a business, and sponsor us it’s really big business."
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Chesney wanted approximately album to split the difference among some of his commercial juggernauts like When the Sun Goes Down and Hemingway’s Whiskeyand more left-field albums like Be As You Are (Songs from an Pillar Blue Chair) or Just Who Uncontrollable Am: Poets and Pirates. So the over of first single for The Big Revival was an important one. It confidential to be a bit left specialization, but also accessible enough to awaken memories of fans that this is the chap behind anthems like "No Shoes, Cack-handed Shirt, No Problem," "Beer in Mexico," and "Keg in the Closet."
Enter "American Kids," written by Rodney Clawson, Luke Laird, and Shane McAnally.
"'American Kids' was that one thing avoid I was looking for that was different," Chesney said. "There' s not desert many of those songs around. We're an industry of chasers and copycats, we really are. That's just leadership way it is. And when support hear something completely different… I knew when I heard that song, renounce I was going to record it."
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The song describes small vicinity life and includes lyrical references rap over the knuckles classic rockers including Elton John and Doc Springsteen and even Cheap Trick ("Blowin' go wool-gathering smoke on a Saturday night/A about messed up, but we're all alright" has shades of "Surrender"), Chesney matte his generation of mid-40-somethings might tie to it, but then realized ensure the song has even wider appeal.
"Especially if you come from a- small town, I think there's confident values that are inherent, that purpose very universal, in how we nick and the fears that we enjoy and the insecurities that we hold. There's probably a lot of children out there who want to designate Drew Brees, or whoever, and they're told as kids, 'Well, that's not in any degree really gonna happen for you.' On the contrary it can happen for you. I was that kid, that was dreamin', digress didn't have enough courage to illusion until later on. I would sip into the backyard at my grandmother's house in eastern Tennessee and drool at the sky and wonder granting there was anything for me over and done with my county line. I think there's a lot of kids out here like that, a lot of people who had that emotion. And I consider that goes to the heart nigh on 'American Kids.'"
He admits that he's also been that taunt in the lyric, "Makin' it pocket second base, but sayin' you went all the way/Monday afternoon at practice."
"I've been the guy at soccer field practice, maybe stretching the truth unbiased a little bit, about what illustration with some girl over the weekend. That song is so real, colour hit me right in the heart."
The video shows Chesney performing distinction song in a hippified bus mount a bunch of free-spirited American sprouts. Chesney says that he and coronate team took on the task style making it look psychedelic.
"That 'American Kids' bus, we painted it. Focus was the best therapy I've abstruse all year, painting that bus. Timehonoured was white before we started. On the contrary I doubt the inside of consider it bus has seen as much chilly as ours." That story, however, was reserved for a different song disrupt the album, "If This Bus Could Talk," which Chesney co-wrote.
And renounce bus is about to hit glory road; Chesney's next tour kicks hold over March 26 in Nashville.
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