Life On A Rock Kenny Chesney

• 1 Pirate Flag 03:47
• 2 When I See This Bar 06:01
• 3 Spread The Love (featuring The Wailers with Elan) 04:15
• 4 Lindy 03:49
• 5 Coconut Tree (with Willie Nelson) 03:24
• 6 It's That Time Of Day 04:53
• 7 Life On A Rock 02:53
• 8 Marley 04:48
• 9 Must Be Something I Missed 03:09
• 10 Happy On The Hey Now (A Song For Kristi) 05:28
• Total Runtime 42:27

Info for Life On A Rock

In spite of the Keith Richards' swagger to "Pirate Flag" and the expansively acoustic "When I See This Bar," Life On A Rock may be the most personal of the three island records. Initially inspired by the sudden death of Kristi Hansen, part of Chesney's tight-knit U/BVI circle of friends, the project turned into a celebration of life, love and the unseen moments that warm us from the inside out. Whether it's "Spread The Love," his collaboration with the Wailers, the melodic sketch of a local homeless man "Lindy," the staccato priority shifter "Must Be Something I Missed" or the sun sinking into the sea "That Time of the Day," Rock is a watermark of a place, a time and a group of friends stock taking of their time in a place where time is the last thing anyone measures. With the quirky "Coconut Tree," marking his second collaboration with Willie Nelson, Chesney wrote eight of the ten songs - and worked on rock in Los Angeles, Jamaica, Hawaii, London, Key West and Nashville. On the heels of the critically-lauded Hemingway's Whiskey and romping Welcome To the Fishbowl, both platinum, this project reckoned with success on a human level and embraced loved ones in the moment.

The biggest ticket seller in country music and among the elite touring artists in the world, Kenny Chesney will have performed 101 stage concerts after this summer's tour. He is a CMT and AMA Artist of the Year, a four-time CMA Entertainer of the Year, and a four-time ACM Entertainer of the Year. Chesney has 24 # 1 singles and has sold more than 30 million albums. Chesney's 'No Shoes Nation' tour kicks off in Tampa on March 16th and will celebrate a summer of music, friends and good times when his 14th studio album, Life on a Rock, hits stores on April 30th. Co-produced with long time collaborator Buddy Cannon, Life on a Rock captures the thematic core of the 10 song set that's been recorded and mixed in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Jamaica, Key West, London and Nashville, Tennessee. Life on a Rock boasts 8 tracks co-written by Chesney and promises to be an extremely personal album. The lead single, Pirate Flag, was USA Today's song of the week before it hit radio on January 31st. It's Chesney's record-extending eighth song to open in the Top 25 in the Nielsen era and shows no signs of slowing down.

Kenny Chesney

Kenny Chesney
Contemporary country star Kenny Chesney didn't have the immediate breakout success that many of his peers enjoyed upon signing with major labels, but gradually built up a significant following via hard work, pop-friendly ballads, and a likable "Average Joe" persona. Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1968 and raised in the nearby small town of Luttrell, best known as the home of Chet Atkins. He grew up listening to both country and rock & roll, but didn't get serious about music until college, when he studied marketing at East Tennessee State University. He received a guitar as a Christmas present and set about practicing, and was soon performing with the college bluegrass band. He soon started writing songs as well and played for tips in local venues -- most often a Mexican restaurant -- every night he could; additionally, he managed to sell 1,000 copies of a self-released demo album. After graduation in 1991, he moved to Nashville and became the resident performer at The Turf, a rough honky tonk in the city's historic district. While he gained experience, it wasn't the sort of place where he'd be discovered, and in 1992 he moved on to a publishing deal with Acuff-Rose. From there he landed a record contract with Capricorn and released his debut album, In My Wildest Dreams, in late 1993.

All I Need to Know Unfortunately for Chesney, Capricorn wasn't much of a country label; not only was the album underpromoted, but the label's country division shut down completely not long after its release. Still, it sold 100,000 copies and caught the attention of several major labels. Chesney ended up signing with RCA subsidiary BNA, which released All I Need to Know in 1995. The album gave him his first two Top Ten hits in the title track and "Fall in Love." His follow-up, 1996's Me and You, became his first album to go gold, thanks to two number two singles in the title track and "When I Close My Eyes." Released in 1997, I Will Stand was another gold-selling effort that gave Chesney his first-ever number one hit in "She's Got It All," plus another number two with "That's Why I'm Here." His big-time breakthrough, however, came with 1999's Everywhere We Go, which sold over two million copies and spawned two number one hits with "You Had Me from Hello" and "How Forever Feels"; it also featured another Top Ten single in "What I Need to Do," and another, "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," that just missed. In 2000, Chesney issued his first Greatest Hits compilation, and two newly recorded songs -- "I Lost It" and "Don't Happen Twice" -- went to number three and number one, respectively.

No Shoes, No Shirt, No ProblemsGreatest Hits became Chesney's second straight double-platinum release and topped the country LP chart. He followed it with the all-new No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem in early 2002, which gave him his strongest commercial performance yet. It, too, hit number one on the country album chart and spun off four Top Ten singles in "Young," the number one "The Good Stuff," the Bill Anderson co-write "A Lot of Things Different," and "Big Star." A Christmas album plugged the gap for 2003, and he had a strong return with 2004's When the Sun Goes Down, which won in the Album of the Year category at the Country Music Awards. He repeated the win, this time as Entertainer of the Year, with Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair).

The Road and the RadioChesney found himself the subject of much tabloid fodder in 2005 with his surprise marriage to actress Renée Zellweger (he had composed 1999's "You Had Me from Hello" after watching Zellweger in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire). The pair split that same year, citing irreconcilable differences, and Chesney released the chart-topping The Road and the Radio in November. In the years that followed, Chesney kept busy, releasing Live: Live Those Songs Again in 2006 and Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates in 2007. In April 2010, Chesney and director Joe Thomas released the 3-D concert film Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D. Taken from his 2009 Sun City Carnival Tour, the film included 23 songs from six stadium shows, shot in 3-D, interspersed with interviews and home movies. A completely new studio album, Hemingway's Whiskey, named after a Guy Clark song, also appeared in 2010. His 13th studio album, Welcome to the Fishbowl, arrived in 2012.

Life on a RockWelcome to the Fishbowl performed respectably, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 and generating the number one country single "Come Over," along with the Top 20 hits "Feel Like a Rock Star" and "El Cerrito Place." Following its release, Chesney's label BNA shuttered and he jumped over to Columbia Nashville, which released Life on a Rock in April 2013. The album hit number one, and the single "Pirate Flag" reached the country Top Ten. Chesney quickly followed Life on a Rock with The Big Revival. A conscious shift toward a brighter sound, The Big Revival was Chesney's liveliest work of the decade, as evidenced by its first single, "American Kids," a singalong that peaked at number two on the country chart.

Upon its September 2014 release, The Big Revival debuted at number two on Billboard's Top 200 and number one on the country chart, and it spawned three additional country Top Ten singles: "Til It's Gone," the Grace Potter duet "Wild Child," and "Save It for a Rainy Day." In the spring of 2016, Chesney returned with "Noise," the first single from Cosmic Hallelujah, the full-length album that appeared in October that same year. (Steve Huey, All Music)

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