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14 Nov, 2014

Billboard interview

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Chesney says that male country singers ‘objectify’ women in an interview with Billboard.

Over the last several years, it seems like anytime anybody sings about a woman, she’s in cutoff jeans, drinking and on a tailgate—they objectify the hell out of them. Twenty years ago, I might have written a song like that— I probably did. But I’m at a point where I want to say something different about women.

13 Oct, 2014

Til It’s Gone

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Chesney releases the single, Til It’s Gone, from his album, The Big Revival. Chesney:

If you think about what the song says, it’s very much a one-on-one piece of communicating. It’s about hanging on to the one who matters to you; for me, it’s talking straight to those hardcore fans who’ve been there — and saying ‘no matter where or what, I’m in this as long as you hang on.

Kenny Chesney - Til It's Gone (Official Audio)

16 Aug, 2014

Only 2014 concert

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Flora-Bama Concert With Kenny Chesney - ShowChesney plays to a crowd of 40,000 at his free concert, Flora-Bama Jama at The Flora-Bama on the state line between Orange Beach, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida. The beach show will be the only concert performance of 2014 for Chesney:

Man, when those people kicked in and started singing back to me, that just hit me in the heart. A year without touring takes me away from that, and those fans… whether they know it or not… inspire me. So having spent the year writing and recording, that was like plugging into the source.

12 Aug, 2014

Flora Bama

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Chesney releases the single, Flora Bama, from his album, The Big Revival. Chesney:

It’s a very specific song about a very specific place. But it’s also a song for anyone who has somewhere they go to let their mind unwind. It’s about bein’ easy, but bein’ engaged. Because – as I’ve said – places like the Flora-Bama are what life is all about.

Kenny Chesney - Flora-Bama (Official Audio)

7 Jul, 2014

American Kids

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Chesney releases American Kids, a song that captures the trials, tribulations and successes of growing up in the U.S.A.

Listening to those finely crafted lyrics, seeing those images — “little map dots,” “teenage dreamin’, front seat leanin'” and “uptown down home American kids” — I remember being that kid. I remember my braces. I remember the first time a boy held my hand, and I thought my heart would burst. I remember feeling like I could conquer the world all while being scared to death of it.

Kenny Chesney - American Kids (Official Video)

5 Feb, 2013

Pirate Flag

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Chesney releases the single, Pirate Flag, from his album, Life On A Rock. Chesney:

What people might not realize about a lot of the ‘babes’ in this video is those are my friends, girls I know from the island who did the very thing this song is about, and that freedom from what’s expected just makes them shine. I think there’s a little bit of ‘Ferris Bueller’ in all of us, and this song is all about who we’d be on a perfect day where we just said, ‘Forget about it!’ So, that’s what we tried to capture.

Kenny Chesney - Pirate Flag

11 Jul, 2012

People cover

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chesneyChesney and McGraw appears on the cover of People to discuss their tour, basketball, and being there for each other after so many years. On touring together:

As good of friends as we are, we’ve been on different paths for several years. To be able to spend the whole summer together and reconnect is awesome. One of the reasons there’s so much chemistry onstage is that Tim and I both grew up the same way; we both have a lot of the same heroes-George Strait, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Whitley-and we’re both competitive.

10 Jul, 2012

El Cerrito Place commentary

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Chesney talks about his song, El Cerrito Place, from his album, Welcome To The Fishbowl. Chesney:

I’ve loved that song for a while. There is a certain longing in this song that in a lot of ways I really relate to. It’s about wanting something that’s not there. The character in the song has a certain insanity that I think is very relate-able with a lot of people.

Kenny Chesney - El Cerrito Place (Audio Commentary)

7 May, 2012

Come Over

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Chesney releases his single Come Over from his album, Welcome to the Fishbowl. Chesney about the song:

Come Over is to me about two people that are as broken as their relationship is, where they realize deep down that their relationship has probably ran its course, but they aren’t really ready to emotionally or physically move on to somethin’ else. So what do they do? They keep goin’ back to each other because it’s familiar. And this song to me is more than just about comfortable sex. It’s about emotionally being wanted in a moment where it really feels impossible to let anybody else fill that void.

Kenny Chesney - Come Over (Official Video)

20 Apr, 2012

Feel Like A Rockstar

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Chesney releases the single, Feel Like A Rockstar, featuring McGraw, from his album, Welcome to the Fishbowl. Chesney:

It describes my fan base to a T because my road family, we have always worked very hard, but we’ve always lived by the theory of we work really hard and play harder.It seemed to work for us. I think that defines a lot of the people that have spent a lot of summers with us out there on the road. The first time I heard Feel Like a Rock Star, I knew I was gonna record it because it defined everything that we’re about out there on the road.

Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw - Feel Like A Rock Star (Official Video)

28 Sep, 2010

Reality

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Chesney releases the single, Reality, from his album, Hemingway’s Whiskey.

So I’d go to the dentist to have something done and they’d put that gas mask on me and I’d be like, ‘Wow, that’s as relaxed as I’ve been in years!’ I thought to myself, ‘This is why people smoke pot right here! This is it!’ I don’t smoke pot, but this is why people do it, I guarantee you. Because it gets them away from reality. I even asked my dentist, ‘I just want to come over here and sit some time, can you guys do that?’ He said, ‘We can’t do that, we’d get in trouble.

I swear, I started writing that song on the way home. But then I related it to everybody that comes to see us. That’s what live music is. It’s an escape from reality. That’s why as a kid I loved it. I still love going to shows, I love live music. That’s where I got the idea to write the song, it’s my message to the fans that it’s OK to break free and escape reality, with us.

Kenny Chesney - Reality (Official Video)

You And Tequila

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Chesney releases the single, You And Tequila, featuring Grace Potter from his album, Hemingway’s Whiskey.

I’d never met Grace Potter until she came into the studio. She grew up in the woods in Vermont. I grew up in the woods in East Tennessee. We come from completely worlds, different backgrounds, probably religious beliefs, we haven’t talked about it. I don’t know what her political beliefs are, I don’t know nothing about any of that. I know she’s a great person and I know that she is a hell of a singer. I heard her voice and I knew I would love to sing with her one day. I didn’t know it would be on this, or this soon.

Kenny Chesney - You And Tequila (Official Video) ft. Grace Potter