Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

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Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

Studio album by Kenny Chesney

Released

September 11, 2007

Genre

Country

Length

48:43

Label

BNA

Producer

Buddy Cannon and Kenny Chesney (all tracks)
Joe Walsh ("Wild Ride" only)

Professional reviews

Kenny Chesney chronology

Live: Live Those Songs Again
(2006)

Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
(2007)

Super Hits
(2008)

Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates is the eleventh studio album by country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in the United States on September 11, 2007. The CD was leaked on the Internet on September 5, 2007, almost a week before its release.

The album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 chart. In its first week, the album had the best weekly sales of any country album since the Dixie Chicks' Taking the Long Way in May 2006.^[1]

The album's first two singles ("Never Wanted Nothing More" and "Don't Blink") both reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in 2007. "Shiftwork", which was a duet with George Strait was the album's third single. "Better as a Memory" has been released as the fourth single.

1 Track listing
2 iTunes Bonus Tracks
3 Musicians
4 References

[edit] Track listing

"Never Wanted Nothing More" (Ronnie Bowman, Chris Stapleton) - 3:29
"Don't Blink" (Casey Beathard, Chris Wallin) - 4:46
"Shiftwork" (Troy Jones) - 4:29
- feat. George Strait
"Just Not Today" (David Lee Murphy) - 4:05
"Wife and Kids" (Jim Collins, Brett James) - 4:23
"Got a Little Crazy" (Craig Monday, Wallin) - 4:03
"Better as a Memory" (Scooter Carusoe, Lady Goodman) - 4:12
"Dancin' for the Groceries" (James, Don Schlitz) - 5:11
"Wild Ride" (Dwight Yoakam) - 4:20
- feat. Joe Walsh
"Scare Me" (Wendell Mobley, Joe Don Rooney, Neil Thrasher) - 4:14
"Demons" (Bill Anderson, Jon Randall) - 5:31

[edit] iTunes Bonus Tracks

"It Ain't Cool to Be Crazy 'Bout You" (Dean Dillon, Royce Porter) (presale only)
- cover of George Strait's Number One single from 1986

[edit] Musicians

Wyatt Beard – background vocals
William F. Bowman – acoustic guitar
Bekka Bramlett – background vocals
Mat Britain – steel drums
Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
Buddy Cannon – background vocals
Melonie Cannon – background vocals
Jeff Coffin – tenor saxophone
Eric Darken – percussion
Dan Dugmore – steel guitar
Chris Dunn – trombone
Sonny Garrish – steel guitar, Dobro
Vince Gill – electric guitar
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
Rob Hajacos – fiddle
Tim Hensley – background vocals
Steve Herman – trumpet
John Hobbs – piano, keyboards
Jim Horn – baritone saxophone
Paul Leim – drums, percussion
Randy McCormick – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, Wurlitzer
Jonell Mosser – background vocals
Larry Paxton – bass guitar
Gary Prim – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, keyboards
Jon Randall – background vocals
Mickey Raphael – harmonica
Chris Stapleton – acoustic guitar
Scott Vestal – banjo
Joe Walsh – electric guitar
Quentin Ware, Jr. – trumpet
John Willis – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, talk box guitar, gut string guitar
Andrea Zonn – background vocals