Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates is the eleventh studio album by American
country music artist
Kenny Chesney. It was released on September 11, 2007 via
BNA Records. The album was leaked on the Internet on September 5, 2007. It produced four singles on the US
BillboardHot Country Songs chart between 2007 and 2008, three of which reached number one. The album also includes duets with
George Strait and
Joe Walsh. This is Chesney’s second album where he was not a writer or co-writer on any of the tracks, the first being 1996's Me and You.
Content
The album's first two singles are "
Never Wanted Nothing More" and "
Don't Blink", which were officially released to country radio in June and September 2007. Both singles reached number one the Hot Country Songs charts in late 2007, as did "
Better as a Memory" (the fourth and final single) in June 2008. "
Shiftwork" is a duet with
George Strait. It was released as the album's third single in December 2007. It peaked at number 2 in early 2008. The song "Wild Ride", a duet with
Joe Walsh, was originally recorded by
Dwight Yoakam on his 1993 album This Time.
Critical reception
The album represented a move by Chesney to a more
Gulf and Western sound with a number of "breezy, steel-drum island songs."[2]
Commercial performance
Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates debuted at number three on the US
Billboard 200 chart, selling 387,000 copies in first week.[11] The album had the best weekly sales of any country album since the
Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way in May 2006[12] As of August 2008, the album has sold 1.4 million copies in the United States.[13] On December 10, 2007, the album was certified
platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million copies in the United States.[14]
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Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates is the eleventh studio album by American
country music artist
Kenny Chesney. It was released on September 11, 2007 via
BNA Records. The album was leaked on the Internet on September 5, 2007. It produced four singles on the US
BillboardHot Country Songs chart between 2007 and 2008, three of which reached number one. The album also includes duets with
George Strait and
Joe Walsh. This is Chesney’s second album where he was not a writer or co-writer on any of the tracks, the first being 1996's Me and You.
Content
The album's first two singles are "
Never Wanted Nothing More" and "
Don't Blink", which were officially released to country radio in June and September 2007. Both singles reached number one the Hot Country Songs charts in late 2007, as did "
Better as a Memory" (the fourth and final single) in June 2008. "
Shiftwork" is a duet with
George Strait. It was released as the album's third single in December 2007. It peaked at number 2 in early 2008. The song "Wild Ride", a duet with
Joe Walsh, was originally recorded by
Dwight Yoakam on his 1993 album This Time.
Critical reception
The album represented a move by Chesney to a more
Gulf and Western sound with a number of "breezy, steel-drum island songs."[2]
Commercial performance
Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates debuted at number three on the US
Billboard 200 chart, selling 387,000 copies in first week.[11] The album had the best weekly sales of any country album since the
Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way in May 2006[12] As of August 2008, the album has sold 1.4 million copies in the United States.[13] On December 10, 2007, the album was certified
platinum by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over a million copies in the United States.[14]
^Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (Media notes). Kenny Chesney. BNA Records. 2007. 88697-11457-2.{{
cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (
link)