Silver Sands Marina Kenny Chesney

• 1 Burn My Boat 03:00
• 2 Carry On 03:00
• 3 Talkin' Dirt 02:55
• 4 Goldfish 03:04
• 5 Silver Sands Marina 03:57
• 6 It Just Got Weird 03:40
• 7 Sad Casino 03:33
• 8 Shot A Car Into Space 03:05
• 9 Remember Me That Way 03:27
• 10 What We Got Going On 02:49
• 11 Shot Glass 03:14
• Total Runtime 35:44

Info for Silver Sands Marina

For Silver Sands Marina, his 21st studio album, the 2025 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee wanted to stretch the limits of what those songs could contain: Vulnerability, dignity, doubt, yearning, humor where warranted and a sense of how vibrantly life should be lived no matter the emotional climate. Even more succinctly, he wanted it to be real in a way that was authentic, not machined.

“This album’s filled with lots of really specific places,” begins the thoughtful, high-energy star. “But it’s also a state of mind, a state of heart, even a state of being. Every moment can’t be on 10. Every great thing doesn’t last forever. I think life, though, can contain all the riches you experience if you figure out how to hold onto them without clutching so tight you wring all the passion and beauty out of them.

“That's what I love about the title track: those two people leave well enough alone. Do they get back together? Talk on the phone? Text? Run into each other in an airport somewhere? We will never know, and it doesn’t matter. For one perfect day, they were – and that was plenty.”

Living each moment completely has always been an earmark for Chesney. Since shifting country music to a more aggressive rock landscape with “Young,” the first solo and first country headliner at Sphere Las Vegas has sought to create a slice of country that honored his roots as much as it explored all the other things the genre could contain. From reggae to bluegrass, spoken word to Joe Walsh through a high velocity Dwight Yoakam song, No Shoes Nation found honesty, dignity and a sense of holding all the things that matter close.

With the opening declaration of arrival “Burn My Boat” to the philosophical measure of the closing “Shot Glass,” Silver Sands Marina measures the buoyancy and transparency of truly living. Anchored by real places – the Holly Hill Mall, Schooner Wharf, Sunset Boulevard and small town ballparks – and characters who last long after the songs fade, Chesney moves from the wry social commentary of “Shot A Car Into Space,” delivered over a country shuffle, to the dilapidated lake front motel where magic happens in the title track and the history-making closed-out-all-reporting-country-radio-stations-in-its-first-week “Carry On,” which stretches permission-giving real-life-wisdom across a feel good groove with a Caribbean breakdown for the bridge.

There’s plenty of Chesney’s signature euphoria. Whether the easy-going “it is what it is” relationship snapshot “What We Got Going On,” featuring GRAMMY-winning Southern California songwriter-vocalist Colbie Caillat, or the charming acoustic country and metaphoric word play that’s swimming in Hawaiian guitars on “Goldfish,” featuring Maui-born-and-raised Willie Nelson protégé Lily Meola, where even heartbreak elicits a smile, the feel good is all over Silver Sands Marina. ...

The 11-track project features Megan Moroney, Lily Meola and Colbie Caillat. Chesney previewed the album earlier this year with “Carry On,” a top 10 single on country radio.

“Some of these songs are unlike anything people have heard, or haven’t heard in a long time,” says Chesney. “Some of them go deep, some of them will make people turn it up, a few will make them laugh… But, together, I think they’ll remind them how great it is to be alive. Even on days where you need a song like ‘Carry On,’ we’re making the best of what we’ve got.”

Kenny Chesney, lead vocals
Danny Rader, acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6–11), mandolin (2, 4), bouzouki (2, 5, 8), electric guitar (2, 7–9), guitjo (3, 8), hi-string guitar (5, 7), guitar (5)
Tony Lucido, bass
Kenny Greenberg, electric guitar (all tracks), acoustic guitar (7)
Nick Buda, drums (1–6, 8–11), percussion (6, 11)
David Dorn, synthesizer (1, 3, 5, 6, 11), piano (1, 5, 6, 11), Hammond B3 organ (2, 3, 10, 11)
Wyatt Beard, background vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11)
David Huff, programming (2–4, 9, 10)
F. Reid Shippen, programming (2, 3, 5)
John Willis, acoustic guitar (2, 5)
Jaren Johnston, background vocals, electric guitar (3)
Jeff Taylor, accordion (4, 8)
Bobby Terry, steel guitar (4, 9–11)
Lily Meola, background vocals (4)
Kat Higgins, background vocals (5, 8)
Megan Moroney, background vocals (6)
Michael Rojas, Hammond B3 organ (7–9), synthesizer (7, 9), piano (7)
Brett James, background vocals (7)
Chad Cromwell, drums (7)
Pat Buchanan, electric guitar (7)
Dan Dugmore, steel guitar (7)
Sam Bacco, percussion (8, 11)
Hardy, background vocals (9)
Colbie Caillat, vocals, background vocals (10)

Produced by Buddy Cannon

Kenny Chesney
Contemporary country star Kenny Chesney didn't have the immediate breakout success that many of his peers enjoyed upon signing with major labels, but gradually built up a significant following via hard work, pop-friendly ballads, and a likable "Average Joe" persona. Chesney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1968 and raised in the nearby small town of Luttrell, best known as the home of Chet Atkins. He grew up listening to both country and rock & roll, but didn't get serious about music until college, when he studied marketing at East Tennessee State University. He received a guitar as a Christmas present and set about practicing, and was soon performing with the college bluegrass band. He soon started writing songs as well and played for tips in local venues -- most often a Mexican restaurant -- every night he could; additionally, he managed to sell 1,000 copies of a self-released demo album. After graduation in 1991, he moved to Nashville and became the resident performer at The Turf, a rough honky tonk in the city's historic district. While he gained experience, it wasn't the sort of place where he'd be discovered, and in 1992 he moved on to a publishing deal with Acuff-Rose. From there he landed a record contract with Capricorn and released his debut album, In My Wildest Dreams, in late 1993.

All I Need to Know Unfortunately for Chesney, Capricorn wasn't much of a country label; not only was the album underpromoted, but the label's country division shut down completely not long after its release. Still, it sold 100,000 copies and caught the attention of several major labels. Chesney ended up signing with RCA subsidiary BNA, which released All I Need to Know in 1995. The album gave him his first two Top Ten hits in the title track and "Fall in Love." His follow-up, 1996's Me and You, became his first album to go gold, thanks to two number two singles in the title track and "When I Close My Eyes." Released in 1997, I Will Stand was another gold-selling effort that gave Chesney his first-ever number one hit in "She's Got It All," plus another number two with "That's Why I'm Here." His big-time breakthrough, however, came with 1999's Everywhere We Go, which sold over two million copies and spawned two number one hits with "You Had Me from Hello" and "How Forever Feels"; it also featured another Top Ten single in "What I Need to Do," and another, "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy," that just missed. In 2000, Chesney issued his first Greatest Hits compilation, and two newly recorded songs -- "I Lost It" and "Don't Happen Twice" -- went to number three and number one, respectively.

No Shoes, No Shirt, No ProblemsGreatest Hits became Chesney's second straight double-platinum release and topped the country LP chart. He followed it with the all-new No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem in early 2002, which gave him his strongest commercial performance yet. It, too, hit number one on the country album chart and spun off four Top Ten singles in "Young," the number one "The Good Stuff," the Bill Anderson co-write "A Lot of Things Different," and "Big Star." A Christmas album plugged the gap for 2003, and he had a strong return with 2004's When the Sun Goes Down, which won in the Album of the Year category at the Country Music Awards. He repeated the win, this time as Entertainer of the Year, with Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair).

The Road and the RadioChesney found himself the subject of much tabloid fodder in 2005 with his surprise marriage to actress Renée Zellweger (he had composed 1999's "You Had Me from Hello" after watching Zellweger in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire). The pair split that same year, citing irreconcilable differences, and Chesney released the chart-topping The Road and the Radio in November. In the years that followed, Chesney kept busy, releasing Live: Live Those Songs Again in 2006 and Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates in 2007. In April 2010, Chesney and director Joe Thomas released the 3-D concert film Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3-D. Taken from his 2009 Sun City Carnival Tour, the film included 23 songs from six stadium shows, shot in 3-D, interspersed with interviews and home movies. A completely new studio album, Hemingway's Whiskey, named after a Guy Clark song, also appeared in 2010. His 13th studio album, Welcome to the Fishbowl, arrived in 2012.

Life on a RockWelcome to the Fishbowl performed respectably, debuting at number two on the Billboard 200 and generating the number one country single "Come Over," along with the Top 20 hits "Feel Like a Rock Star" and "El Cerrito Place." Following its release, Chesney's label BNA shuttered and he jumped over to Columbia Nashville, which released Life on a Rock in April 2013. The album hit number one, and the single "Pirate Flag" reached the country Top Ten. Chesney quickly followed Life on a Rock with The Big Revival. A conscious shift toward a brighter sound, The Big Revival was Chesney's liveliest work of the decade, as evidenced by its first single, "American Kids," a singalong that peaked at number two on the country chart.

Upon its September 2014 release, The Big Revival debuted at number two on Billboard's Top 200 and number one on the country chart, and it spawned three additional country Top Ten singles: "Til It's Gone," the Grace Potter duet "Wild Child," and "Save It for a Rainy Day." In the spring of 2016, Chesney returned with "Noise," the first single from Cosmic Hallelujah, the full-length album that appeared in October that same year. (Steve Huey, All Music)

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