Mark Chesnutt gutarist shoots self in hand
Monday, November 24, 2008 – Mark Chesnutt's long-time guitarist Delaney Jackson was injured last Thursday afternoon, while cleaning his pistol at his residence. He accidentally shot himself in the hand, according to Chesnutt's publicist.
Jackson has played lead guitar for Chesnutt and his band for just over 12 years. He is scheduled for surgery this morning.
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Savin' the Honky Tonk
Theme albums never really caught on in C&W, but Mark Chesnutt might just change that with his label debut. After all, just about every track here concerns alcohol consumption and the joy of gin joints. Oh sure, there's a couple love songs here ("Would These Arms Be In Your Way" wherein Lee Ann Womack lends her vocal talents) and a cheatin' song or two ("A Hard Secret to Keep"), but for the most part it's all aqua vitae all the time.
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Mark Chesnutt
Self-titled albums are usually the sign of a new, emerging artist on the scene, but Mark Chesnutt is anything but a new face. Although some would say he came in on the back end of the late-'80s wave that crested with Clint Black, Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson, the fact is that Chesnutt has spent the last decade being one of the most consistently good - and most consistently successful - pure singers in the country music business. Like his fellow Texans George Strait and George Jones (who also »»» |
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
It would be a shame if hit single and title track "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" provided an entree to Mark Chesnutt. The Diane Warren song in the hands of such an accomplished honky tonker like Chesnutt smacks of a stab at radio play.
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