He’s back! It has been a while since we have heard from the Beachboy Cowboy who makes the late Jimmy Buffett look like a land lover.
This is his 20th studio album and it is a very generous 15 track effort. It is his best album for along time. Kenny mixes it up with some different styles and rhythms and some incredible phrasing and lyrics.
It is unmistakably country, even though there is more sand in his loafers than there is dirt.
Like Jimmy, Kenny has always known how to balance surf and turf.
Not for one minute do I think that the sailor with the cowboy hat has lost his country vibe. That will always be his jam. Some of his subjects maybe more seafaring than down on the farm but his sound and style will always be country.
His voice has such clarity and there is a definite passion in his delivery. He always sings with such conviction.
Like a good storyteller, Kenny always has conflict in a bunch of his songs and some of those conflicts are resolved, sometimes they try to resolve them other times it doesn’t get sorted. Like real life, I guess.
A lot of the songs are intense and introspective others are just fun. There’s a maturity in this album, however, and Kenny is all growed up!
There are still toe tappers and singalong songs but there are deeper aspects to this album and some more meaningful songs.
Wherever you are tonight is the last song on the album and it is far and away the best song here.
This too shall pass, Come here, go away, The way I love you now, Thinkin’ ‘Bout, Guilty Pleasure, Take her home and the title track are all new classics for Kenny. This is a solid album.
If you loved Kenny at his peak, then you will be cheering from the crows nest about this one. He had me from the title. (See what I did there?)
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