Kenny Chesney :: New Country Music Lyrics
Kenny Chesney was born March 26, 1968 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was raised in Luttrell, Tennessee, and attended Gibbs High School in Corryton, Tennessee, where he was a receiver on the football team.Chesney graduated from East Tennessee State University with a degree in advertising. He then headed to Nashville. After making the rounds of the music publishers in Nashville, Chesney signed to contract in 1992 with BMI and Opryland Music Group. Kenny's first album, In My Wildest Dreams, was released on the independent Capricorn Records label in 1994. The album's lead-off singles, "The Tin Man" and "Whatever It Takes", both reached the lower regions of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. 1996 saw the release of Me and You, Chesney's second major-label album. I Will Stand, Chesney's third album for BNA, was released in 1997. 1999's Everywhere We Go, Chesney's fourth album for BNA, produced two consecutive Number One singles in "How Forever Feels" and "You Had Me From Hello". By 2000, Chesney released his Greatest Hits compilation. 2004 saw the release of Chesney's album When the Sun Goes Down. In January 2005, Chesney released the album Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair On September 11, 2007, Kenny released the album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates. The album's lead-off single, "Never Wanted Nothing More", became Chesney's twelfth Number One on the Billboard country charts. On the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated for the week ending September 15, 2007, Chesney's single "Don't Blink" debuted at #16, setting a new record for the highest debut on that chart since the inception of SoundScan electronic tabulation in 1990. This record was broken one week later by Garth Brooks' song "More Than a Memory", which debuted at Number One on the same chart.
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