New Kenny Chesney Album Set To Be Released

Kenny Chesney has set the release date for the follow up to When The Sun Goes Down and we’re certain that the sun is still gonna be shining on this one. The release date is set for November 8th and the album is called The Road & The Radio. The title track was written by Kenny himself and hopefully the whole album has as much success as Kenny’s last release! “We’ve been keeping plenty busy,” Chesney said. “But I think by now everybody knows, not a day goes by that I’m not thinking about the music. And it seemed like we started looking for songs almost as soon as ‘Sun’ dropped, and we got to hear some pretty great stuff, too.”

I can't wait to hear this one!

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Kenny Chesney Set To Release The Road & The Radio Nov. 8th
Follow-Up To The Quadruple-Platinum CMA Album of the Year Ramps Up

Nashville: It's been 17 months since the release of When The Sun Goes Down, Kenny Chesney's last full-on studio release, but the time between has been well-invested in writing, listening and making music. With final tracking just completed, Chesney and co-producer Buddy Cannon are preparing for the Nov. 8th release of The Road & The Radio -- the follow-up to the Luttrell, Tennessean's quadruple platinum Country Music Association Album of the Year, which features the 3 multiple week #1s "There Goes My Life," the Uncle Kracker duet title track and "Anything But Mine."

"We've been keeping plenty busy," Chesney says with a laugh. "But I think by now everybody knows, not a day goes by that I'm not thinking about the music. And it seemed like we started looking for songs almost as soon as Sun dropped… and we got to hear some pretty great stuff, too."

The title track -- about seeking one's truth behind the wheel with the radio as one's truest companion -- was written by Chesney.

"You know," says the reigning CMA and Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year, "when I looked at what my life was and how it is, there are a few things that have remained constant. You can find your answers out on the road -- or listening to the radio, and it's certainly they way I've always lived my life. Touring around and listening to the story people tell me about the songs I've cut, I realize a lot of other people live their life between the white lines and the grooves in the road, too."

Drawing on some of Nashville's best writers - and looking at three songs from his own pen -- Chesney put a lot of thought into how he wanted the follow-up to his critically acclaimed introspective Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair when he made his return to a straight-ahead commercial project. For in what could be deemed his singer/songwriter record, the man who has won the Academy of Country Music's Top Male Vocalist and Single of the Year Awards found a whole new dimension to self-expression.

"After Be As You Are, it made me realize how much of yourself you can invest in a record," says the man who's hit with "I Go Back," "Young," "The Good Stuff," "How Forever Feels" and more. "You don't realize how specific in your life can be exactly the specific stuff in other people's lives… and in that, it made me challenge myself to go deeper. I wrote some of the songs that ended up on When The Sun Goes Down because I needed to say certain things… Everything about The Road & The Radio is about that, which made the process harder, but also more fulfilling in a strange way."

Look for Chesney's next album Nov. 8th. In the meantime, the man who's currently inside USA Today with a full page examining what goes into taking his SRO tour stadium-sized is slated to get up close and personal with CBS News' Rita Braver for a "Sunday Morning" piece slated to air July 24.

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