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Kenny Chesney’s ‘Born’: All 15 Tracks Ranked
The eight-time entertainer of the year winner continues in his penchant for songs that survey every nuance of love and life.
He works once again with his longtime producer Buddy Cannon, crafting an album that is a patchwork of songs, musical commemorations of a myriad of life moments, drawing on spontaneous road trips and dive-bars filled with the scent of ocean breezes, as well as high-octane instances of embracing wide-open independence, and tempered by more contemplative spaces accepting how time refines lives, both healing hurts and spilling heartbreaks, etching memories firmly into consciousness. A perfect mesh of churning percussion, immense singalong chorus, and stadium-ready, blistering rock riffs draw listeners deeper into the soul-searching, human-connecting cavities of each lyric on this high-octane title track and album opener. Written by Brent Cobb, Charlie Worsham and Jaren Johnston, this track features a loping rhythm and relatable storyline of finding refuge among strangers in a bar from “walkin’ through the rain of life’s big storm,” where sometimes love is “all oyster, no pearl.” Some fine-grain, poetic storytelling and Chesney’s everyman style of singing always translates these kinds of stories so well.
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