Peppered with references to Abercrombie & Fitch

Kenny chesney star and secretly surrendered. He had a string of modest success during the late 1990s, but he never cross wave by 2002 no shoes, no shirts, no problems, when he stable tourism and stability to the adult pop off transfer and his first album, but nothing than me this beautiful successor, selling its landing when the sun goes down, it also appear number one to the very healthy sales of over 55 million. Chesney empty, apparently, reduce left before garth Brooks -- a singer stood between fuzzy late 1960s mainstream pop/rock singers and modern country made adult-oriented music to every thing. At one point Chesney is accord with neo - traditionalist country singer, but when the sun goes down, he had left far behind as mere seasonings, and the use of state on the album resolute heart, my soul in the 1970s traditional singer and songwriter. Garth Brooks where, Billy Joe only in modern tune, reference Chesney decline Joel, James Taylor and Steve miller, while covering Dave Loggins' & "please come to Boston."So, it's not an entire surprise that he favors ballads, usually the anthemic type designed to fill out arenas, and when he does turn the tempo up, it's still laid-back, in the fashion of Jimmy Buffett, as on the appealing duet with Uncle Kracker on the title track. Chesney often refers to living in the Islands (the Caribbean Islands, that is) in his nice song-by-song liner notes and every one of the many pictures in the disc's booklet features him on an island, but this is hardly a tropical album -- it's a record for middle America, for soccer moms and sentimental NASCAR dads, for those who opted out of the corporate rat race in favor of a loving relationship, as the character in &"The Woman With You" did. It's for a generation raised on rock but living on country, people who like to reminiscence but are perfectly happy in their domestic life. If this sounds condescending, it's not meant that way; it's an apt description of an album that captures a time, place, and mindset, the way Sgt. Pepper provided the soundtrack to the Summer of Love. Peppered with references to Abercrombie & Fitch, American Express, dogs named Bocephus, old frat brothers, and forgotten sorority sisters, all set to a canny blend of state-of-the-art country, '70s sensibility, and '80s production (check out muted delayed rhythm guitar on &"I Go Back"), it's a thoroughly modern mature-pop album. Like Shania Twain's Come On Over or Up!, this is music that's meant to have universal appeal, but it's far subtler in its approach, not least because it's delivered not by a diva, but a humble guy with a likeable, friendly voice. It may not be country, but that doesn't matter; When the Sun Goes Down is winning, sturdy mainstream pop, and after hearing it, it's easy to see why so many listeners now take Chesney to heart -- he's writing the soundtrack to their lives.