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Post by Jhomes87 on May 19, 2012 20:13:12 GMT -6
 Kenny Chesney " Welcome To The Fishbowl" (Blue Chair Records/Columbia Nashville) Release Date: June 19Track List:1. "Come Over" (Shane McAnally/Josh Osborne/Sam Hunt) 2. "Feel Like A Rock Star" [Duet with Tim McGraw] (Rodney Clawson/Chris Tompkins) 3. "Sing Em' Good My Friend" (Tom Douglas/Jaren Johnston) 4. "Welcome To This Fishbowl" 5. "I'm A Small Town" (Keith Gattis) 6. "El Cerrito Place" (Keith Gattis) 7. "Makes Me Wonder" (Kenny Chesney/Wendell Mobley/Neil Thrasher) 8. "While He Still Knows Who I Am" (Tom Douglas/Dave Berg/Georgia Middleman) 9. "Time Flies" (Steve McEwan/Craig Wiseman) 10. "To Get To You (55th & 3rd)" (Kenny Chesney/Skip Ewing) 11. "Always Gonna Be You" (Michael Reid) 12. "You And Tequila" [Live - featuring Grace Potter] (Deana Carter/Matraca Berg) CLICK HERE Listen Track-Per-Day (SoundCloud) PREVIEW(Clips): music.barnesandnoble.com/search/mediaplayer.asp?ean=886979486621&disc=1&track=1 (Barnes&Noble) Source: Kenny Chesney website |
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Post by Jhomes87 on May 31, 2012 12:25:39 GMT -6
There are a wealth of songs on "Fishbowl" tailor-made to make people care, particularly haunting, vulnerable ballads like "El Cerrito Place," "Sing 'Em Good, My Friend," "Always Gonna Be You" and the gut-wrenching "While He Still Knows Who I Am." The collection would be unrelentingly sad if not juxtaposed against rollicking fare like the title cut, "Feel Like a Rock Star" (with McGraw) and "Time Flies" -- but it's those risk-taking ballads that leave the biggest impression.
Sony Music Nashville chairman/CEO Gary Overton calls Fishbowl "truly a special record," and was struck by its personal tone. "On many of the songs, Kenny pushed himself to dig deeper into the emotions of personal relationships-both successful and failed-more than he ever has before," Overton says. "You can feel it in his voice."
In lesser hands, these sorts of songs could fall flat if the interpreter doesn't rise to the occasion, and Chesney realizes the risk involved in cutting such songs. "'El Cerrito Place' was one of them, because it's been cut twice before and both were really good," he says, adding that songwriter Keith Gattis' version "is incredible, and I heard Charlie [Robison's] version of it 10 years ago when it came out, and it haunted me. Now all this time has passed, and I still think it's a little taboo to touch it-but I sure felt it. The time was right for me vocally and emotionally to sink my teeth into that song."
As the recording process moved on, a common theme of emotional longing and alienation began to take shape, consciously or not. "Every record you make has its twists and turns, and this one was no different," Chesney says. "The first one I recorded for it was 'While He Still Knows Who I Am,' and even that has an element of searching on it."
The character in the song is going back home to visit a father suffering from Alzheimer's disease. "But it's got so much more than that," Chesney says. "This guy's going back to reconnect with his father, but in a sense he's trying to connect with himself, too. He's busy and he's getting lost in the world, and that was me to a T, really. It's interesting that I have this knack for connecting with thousands of people in an audience and, in an ironic kind of way, in the middle of doing that I've felt this disconnect from the people that love and care about me the most and molded me as a person growing up in East Tennessee. In the time between releasing 'Hemingway's Whiskey' and now, that basically describes my personal life. That's why this was the first song I recorded, and how this whole thread started on this record." Source: Billboard CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY |
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Post by Jhomes87 on Jun 18, 2012 10:58:26 GMT -6
LISTEN to "El Cerrito Place", courtesy of Yahoo. It will be posted to the SoundCloud widget page later today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 17:09:50 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 15:58:04 GMT -6
#1 country CD, #2 top 200 CD with 193,000 sold.
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