Kenny Chesney won America's heart as the fun-loving country boy, the one who schmoozes with Jimmy Buffett and Uncle Kracker for island-hopping party hits. Unfortunately, in Nashville, even the most lovable party boys are expected to grow up and sing about husbandhood, so now it's Chesney's turn. "Shift Work" is a fine duet with George Strait, who has more great songs about husbandhood than Chesney has fingers and toes. But getting serious doesn't really suit him, especially with tedious ballads about finding the Lord ("Never Wanted Nothing More"). He serenades a single-mom stripper in "Dancin' for the Groceries," which has the immortal couplet "In sequinsand in laces/She's dancin' for the braces." But he's more fun covering Dwight Yoakam's "Wild Ride," with a very welcome Joe Walsh busting out some Rocky Mountain voice-box guitar. Now that's our Kenny: the guy who sang "Keg in the Closet" and "Being Drunk's a Lot Like Loving You."

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."