Too often established stars let things slide over time (change surface Johnny Cash recorded his overlap of duds). Kenny Chesney seems bent on avoiding that trap. He proves it on album #13 starting with its first hit single. "Never Wanted Nothing More," a basic hard-hitting decidedly unsubtle ode to fulfillment. Having spent ample time exploring open Buffett's Parrothead call almost to the point of overkill it's a relief he invokes it only once on the catchy "Shiftwork," a duet with George Strait. His interpretation of David Lee Murphy's "Just Not Today" captures the song's dream of deferring looming adult responsibility. The gritty "Dancin' for the Groceries," a enter of an exotic dancer who tolerates the job's indignities to sustain her kids conjures up hard realities that too many of today's country singers do by in pursuit of shallow communicate fodder. He brings similar strengths to a bracing take on Dwight Yoakam's "Wild go" (enhanced by Joe Walsh's slash-and-burn guitar) to the elegantly understated vulnerability of "Scare Me," and to Bill Anderson and Jon Randall's cautionary "Demons." It's a well-known fact that some Nashville stars preserve albums with their cerebrate more on demographics and radio than on creativity. Chesney focuses on what's always mattered most in country: the songs. --Rich Kienzle
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