Kenny Chesney

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chesney releases his single The Boys of Fall from his album, Hemingway’s Whiskey. Songwriter Casey Beathard tells what inspired him to write the song:

Football is my biggest passion other than songwriting and the family stuff I do. If I’m not with my family or writing, I’m at home just watching football. That’s my background. My dad and brothers were in football, and I have a big passion for it. I’m coaching my kids all through it.

 Chesney releases his single, Don’t Blink, from his album, Just who I Am: Pirates and Poets. Song writer, Chris Wallin shares his inspiration behind the song:

I’d had the idea for that song for about a year. It was one of those things that I felt really personal about because I had lost three major family members within a two-year period. My mother, my grandmother and my brother. When something like that happens — there was a line that I was wanting to put in the song that never made it in the song. ‘We always send flowers to people when they’re gone. We should send them when they’re living.’ You don’t always have that time, anyway.

Chesney releases the single, Summertime, from his album, The Road and the Radio. The song was written by Craig Wiseman and Steve McEwan. Wiseman:

Steve was in town from London. We had about three days to write, so we were really taking advantage of our time. We’d go til 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning… until we dropped!We were writing ‘My Old Friend’ [for Tim McGraw], but we were trying not to write a ballad so we kept trying not to write that particular song. Finally around midnight, we took a break from writing ‘My Old Friend’ and went out on the back steps of my office. It was that first night when it stays warm, and you can smell the grass growing. I walked outside and was like, ‘Man… summertime! Smell that!’ It was that first warm night of summer. It was great.
That next day, I was driving in to write with Steve. For whatever reason, I kept going, ‘Summertime! Summertime!’ It was sticking in my head. We got to the office, and I pulled up a drumbeat and started saying it to the beat. I didn’t want to call it ‘Summertime,’ because you want to come up with a little better of a title than that, but it just kept coming back to ‘Summertime.’
I’m from Mississippi, so I’m a kid from the South. Summertime was always the start of the year for me, and it still is. I look at my year starting not in January, but in June when school is letting out. If I’m going to be associated with a season, I’d rather it be summertime than try to write another Christmas song or something!

Chesney releases the single, Who You’d Be Today, from his album, The Road and the Radio.