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Kenny Chesney - Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)

Primary Artist
Kenny Chesney
Album Title
Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)
Release Date
January 25, 2005 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Conventional wisdom dictates that the Caribbean Islands are where you go to relax, not work, but not for Kenny Chesney. The Tennessee native found his muse on the islands, and it changed his life and work. He started his career as a good, if unremarkable, neo-traditionalist singer, but he slowly built his own identity as a singer and songwriter, largely due to the time he spent in the islands, a love that he celebrated in his music and interviews. Not since Jimmy Buffett has a musician been so thoroughly identified with the life of a beach bum, but there is a big difference between the two. Read More