The Tin Man (Kenny Chesney song)
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July 23, 2001 (re-release)
3:37 (re-release)
| "The Tin Man" | ||||
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| Single by Kenny Chesney | ||||
| from the album In My Wildest Dreams (1994) All I Need to Know (1995) Greatest Hits (2000) | ||||
| B-side | "I Finally Found Somebody" (1994 version only)[1] | |||
| Released | April 19, 1994 July 23, 2001 (re-release) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:28 3:37 (re-release) | |||
| Label | Capricorn (1994) BNA (2001) | |||
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| Producers | Barry Beckett (1994) Kenny Chesney, Buddy Cannon, and Norro Wilson (2001) | |||
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"The Tin Man" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Kenny Chesney. It was the second single released from his 1994 debut album In My Wildest Dreams. Six years later, Chesney re-recorded the song for his first Greatest Hits compilation album and released this recording in July 2001 as the album's third single.
"The Tin Man" is a ballad about a brokenhearted man who wishes that he were the Tin Woodman so that he "wouldn't have a heart" and thus not feel the emotions that he is feeling.
The song is set in the key of E major with a main chord pattern of E-C♯m-A-B.[2]
Critical reception
In a 1995 review, Phil Kloer of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called the song "one of the better pieces of writing to come out of Nashville this year or last."[3] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that the song was not "quite as shellacked with gloss" as Chesney's later ballads.[4] Billboard's review praised Chesney's vocals while taking a negative view of the songwriting: "[H]e is hitting his stride as a singer, even if The Wizard of Oz references here are a little tired."[5]
The original version later appeared on Chesney's first BNA Records album, All I Need to Know. In his review of this album, Erlewine wrote that the song "deftly reworks a cliché" and "captur[es] the blend of country instrumentation and anthemic pop that became his signature and made him a star."[6]
Chesney re-recorded the song for his 2000 Greatest Hits album.[1] This newly recorded version was the b-side to the album's first single, "I Lost It", before serving as the third release from it in 2001.[1]