Corona Extra presents 'Poets & Pirates'
Article published on Monday, Aug. 4, 2008 |
TAMPA - Corona Extra presents Kenny Chesney "Poets & Pirates" with Miranda Lambert on Friday, Aug. 29, 7:30 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre on the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa.
Kenny Chesney has covered a lot of ground – and he believes he’s got a lot more ground to go. The platinum plus Just Who I am, has already yielded two number one singles with “Never Wanted Nothing More,” and “Don’t Blink,” and a number two single with, “Shiftwork,” the duet with pal George Strait.
His fourth single, “Better As A Memory,” has been heralded as, “a supremely lovely single, perhaps the finest of his career, “ by Robert Oermann, the dean of Nashville music critics. Chesney, the four time and reining Academy of Country Music and three time and current Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year sold more tickets in North America than anyone last year, played football stadiums and sang the songs that capture the way people live their lives, dream their dreams and feel the moments that define them.
Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates is in many ways Chesney’s most intimate album to date. Still marked by the high jinks and good-time revelry he’s known for – the tropical feeling morning-after introduction of “Got a Little Crazy,” the shimmering, wide-open embrace of being young and free of “Just Not Today” – but the musical synthesis and emotional openness could’ve only come from a life lived in, around, making and loving music.
Somewhere between back when and tomorrow, Kenny Chesney is singing songs that tell his truth and remind a whole lotta people, who’re more like him than not, about the things that matter, that hold up, that create the reasons to believe – and that’s not a bad place for a man who lives in songs to be.
Miranda Lambert first exploded onto the scene as a finalist in the 2003 season of the Nashville Star television series. She didn’t win. But instead, Columbia Nashville, which had right of first refusal on the show’s performers, signed her to a deal and they gave her the time and opportunity to make the album that she really wanted to make.
Her confidence and firepower were evident in Kerosene: it debuted at No. 1 on the country charts (only the sixth time a new artist entered in at the top), and went on to earn Lambert nominations for the CMA’s Horizon Award and the ACM’s Top New Female Vocalist Award. It also earned her a Grammy nomination. Most impressive, though, was the fact that Lambert, still a teenager, had written or co-written eleven of Kerosene’s twelve songs, which had the authentic feel of old-school, take-no-prisoners country music.
She returned in 2007 with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, on which she raised the stakes both musically and emotionally. With Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, she laid all of her cards on the table, and she’s got one hell of a winning hand.
Reserve seat tickets are $80; festival lawn $41.75. Tickets are available at the Ford Amphitheatre Box Office, all Ticketmaster Outlets and online at www.livenation.com. To charge by phone, call 727-898-2100 or 813-287-8844.
All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable taxes, parking and service and handling charges.
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Article published on Monday, Aug. 4, 2008
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