IT'S hard to believe Kenny Chesney has been on the country scene for eight years.

However, it's not difficult to believe he has just entered the American country charts at number one with this exciting album. It has everything a growing man could need - the angst of a teenager growing up in a small Tennessee town trying to balance his education at university with a strong longing to sing in the bars and venues of Nashville. It paid off big style with every album reaching the top five in the country charts ever since. On The Coast Of Somewhere Beautiful, Never Gonna Feel That Way Again, A Lot Of Things Different and the bonus track, an acoustic version of I Can't Go There, all reflect his career. But title track No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem sums up his attitude on life perfectly.

Updated: 11:44 Thursday, June 20, 2002