Kenny Chesney, a man who once sang about his sexy tractor, fancies Hallmark-card country propped up by clean, pop-metal guitars and bright, firecracker drums. In his rich, George Strait baritone, Chesney covers all the contempo-country bases on No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems: high-school memories ("Never Gonna Feel Like That Again"), Cinderella stories ("Big Star"), easy living ("No Shoes . . .") and, of course, bittersweet love ("On the Coast of Somewhere Beautiful"). On "Young," the first single, Chesney sings of being a terrible teen in the years when young boys wore John Cougar Mellencamp T-shirts and acted like "wanna-be rebels who didn't have a clue." Look at the photo spread inside, though, and Chesney comes off more like a boy toy than a bad boy. But if you can get past the cheesy album art and mind-numbing Nashville production, Chesney delivers real feeling in some of the songs. "A Lot of Things Different," written by Music Row vets Bill Anderson and Dean Dillon, is a wistful meditation on regret in which Chesney, over gentle acoustic guitar, talk-sings lines like, "I'd have stood up to that bully when he pushed and called me names/But I was too afraid." If all of Chesney's sentimentality felt this real, he'd be more than just another Nashville pretty boy.

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.