The Music Of The Night Lyrics

Kenny Chesney is a fitting start to a lost weekend in Blossom performance

Sometimes, life is its own metaphor for life.

Nearly four hours of copious note-taking at Blossom Music Center Thursday night, where to the delight of a near sellout crowd of more than 20,000, Kenny Chesney and his Goin' Coastal Tour stopped in, all went for naught. Somewhere between the seats and the parking lot, a pad full of furiously scribbled comments, observations and surely Pulitzer-worthy bon mots went missing.

Kind of like two of those hours spent listening to Chesney.

So details like he was either unable or unwilling to hit the high hiccup “Yoo-hoo'' lyric in “Summertime,'' have to be retrieved the old-fashioned way – by actually recalling them. And it's not a pleasant task.

Look, Kenny Chesney is one of the best entertainers in country music. There is no doubt of that. The guy positively captivates a crowd. But it's all about charisma, and not about talent.

Oh, it's not that he doesn't have it. You don't compile a discography like his six No. 1 albums – two short of Garth Brooks' record eight – on luck and a producer's adroit use of Pro Tools.

But that begs the question: If you have a catalog like that, why spend a third of your night covering other people's songs? Sure, his take of “You Never Even Called Me By My Name,'' originally made famous by Akron's own David Allan Coe, drew a great response. But guess what? It gets that response in bars, too, when average to mediocre bands cover it. The reaction is to the song, not the performance. In this case, that was a substandard pairing from Chesney and his “When the Sun Goes Down'' partner (and opening act) Uncle Kracker.

And “Midnight Rider'' is a fantastic tune. The Allman Brothers absolutely killed it on their debut album in 1969. But was it worth skipping his own hit, “Old Blue Chair,'' to include it? And it's possible to totally dig having a member of your crew – Mark Tamburino – break out the Violent Femmes' “Blister in the Sun,'' but at the expense of omitting “The Good Stuff?''

Which sort of fits because the audience didn't get the vocal good stuff , either. The problem? An overproduced, overmiked over-over band. Chesney has a decent but thin voice, with a limited range. Nothing wrong with that. But what's wrong is not being able to hear him. Mikes work best when you sing into them – his mike technique is awful, or he's afraid (justifiably, at least on one song Thursday night) that he won't match the pitch. Or that your band will drown you out. Half the time, at least from the pavilion seats, his voice bordered on inaudible.

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Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award. and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.

She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top ten albums of any female recording artist - a total of 31 since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest top ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became the only artist to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades. According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.

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