More Big Names Added to the American Music Awards

The AMA's should be a great show this November!

Source: netmusiccountdown.com

NASHVILLE, TN -- Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Keith Urban have been added to the lineup of big name performers for this year's American Music Awards (November 22nd) that already includes Kenny Chesney.

They join earlier announced performers including Chesney, Mariah Carey, Rob Thomas and The Rolling Stones on the show, a presentation of Dick Clark Productions, Inc.

Hosting the 33rd annual special is Cedric "The Entertainer."

Also, scheduled to appear on the show as presenters are cycling champion Lance Armstrong, Toni Braxton, Ryan Cabrera, Chingy, Australian songstress Delta Goodrem, Nick Lachey, John Mayer, Jesse McCartney, Sean Paul, Nicole Richie, LeAnn Rimes, "Phantom Of The Opera's" Emmy Rossum, "American Idol's" Ryan Seacrest, "Jake In Progress'" John Stamos, Sugarland, "Night Stalker's" Stuart Townsend & Gabrielle Union, and Gretchen Wilson.

Chesney, Zellweger: Together for a Reunion?

I heard a rumor today that Kenny and Renee got together for a little talk just recently in the Big Apple. Wonder how true it is... Here's the only text I could find on this rumor. They must be ironing out the details for their divorce or maybe they just crossed paths and thought they should get together for a talk?

Kenny Chesney & Renee Zellweger had a reunion recently at a restaurant in NY. She talked as Kenny listened but also watched a game on the TV behind her. Renée realized she started rumors about him so she told him how horrible she felt for hurting him and his family.

When Rumors Start - Could be Rough on Chesney's Family

Source: netmusiccountdown.com

NASHVILLE, TN -- KENNY CHESNEY tells Country Weekly when the press prints hurtful things about him, he's been around long enough to take it, but it's tougher on his family.

"I've been around town a while, I've developed a pretty tough skin," Kenny tells Country Weekly. "But my mother hasn't. My sister hasn't. When they read things about me that people are trying to start, that's hurtful to them. That's the toughest part, the effect rumors have on my family."

ABOUT STARTING HIS OWN FAMILY, Kenny says, "I hope so. Maybe somewhere down the road. Who knows? That's up to the good Lord."

Country Weekly Interview: Part II

Here's a portion of Part II of Country Weekly's exclusive interview with Kenny.

Source: countryweekly.com

In a exclusive, Kenny goes on the record about paparazzi, his personal life and his new album.

In our Oct. 24 issue, Kenny Chesney opened up to about what's ahead for him in the wake of his failed marriage to actress Renée Zellweger and about the making of his new The Road and the Radio album. Here is Part 2 of that exclusive interview with Kenny, who sat down with us just days after Renée, his wife of four months, filed for annulment of their marriage Sept. 14.

The interview took place at Kenny's stately mansion outside Nashville, with Kenny sitting beside his picturesque swimming pool as he talked about the pressure of the last 12 months of his life. In that time, he swept overdue honors as country music's Entertainer of the Year at the CMA and ACM awards shows. He staged the biggest tour of his career on the heels of his record-breaking 2004 tour. He began filming his first network TV special, which airs on ABC this Thanksgiving eve. And he got married, privately, May 9 on the Caribbean island of St. John with only a few friends and family in attendance.

In this final installment, Kenny talks about feeling "violated" by the paparazzi, how his family has been hurt, why his concerts are "rock shows," having children, his ABC special this Thanksgiving and more about his new The Road and the Radio CD.

To read the rest of this article, check out the new issue of Country Weekly, on sale now!

Pre-Order Kenny's "The Road and the Radio"!

Being an associate of Amazon for about 7 years now, I thought I would search for Kenny Chesney's latest album"The Road and the Radio" at Amazon.com. Low and behold, they have the album available for pre-ordering!

Click the links or "Buy from amazon.com" button in the box to the left. I'd say, it's a very good price at $10.99 USD (at the time of this posting).

The Road and the Radio will be released on November 8, 2005 and I for one, cannot wait!

Chesney & Wilson Show Pat Green a 'Summer Camp' Vibe

Good article on how it's like with Kenny on the road. It's cool Pat Green had the experience with both Chesney and Wilson!

Source: 2theadvocate.com

Entertainment writer Fresh from being opening act for the biggest tour of the year, Texas singer-songwriter Pat Green brings his solo tour back to Baton Rouge for an Oct. 27 show at the Varsity Theatre.

Green, whose hits include "Wave On Wave" and "Baby Doll," saw his opening act slot on a 44-date trek with country stars Kenny Chesney and Gretchen Wilson as a golden opportunity.

"Taking my little independent band that's somehow creeping around radio and putting it on the big stage was pretty cool," he said before a show at the Georgia Theatre in Athens. "It was a big deal, very lucky. Hopefully, it'll give us a leg up."

Green had a half-hour to make his mark with the Chesney and Wilson fans who filled venues ranging from about 10,000 to 55,000 seats. He knew he had to strike fast and true.
"You have to," Green said. "If you don't, well, you miss your shot. I felt like, from the first day we stepped on stage, that we had a tight package. During the time that we had allotted, we kicked their teeth in as long as we could."

Offstage was fun, too.

"It was a great kind of summer-camp vibe," Green said. "Everybody was having a good time. Nobody missed out and you just woke up in a new city and did it all over."
Green's no newcomer to the music game, but growing artist that he is, he learned a thing or two from headliners Chesney and Wilson.

"I been watching Kenny on TV since I was in my freshman year in college," Green said. "You gotta pay your dues, that's what I took from him. And from Gretchen, I guess, if you can catch that lightning in a bottle and find that one song (Wilson's 2004 hit, "Redneck Woman"), or write that one song, that changes the world, then you can get to the top pretty fast. So, as far as I know, I'm doing the right thing."

The right thing for Green isn't a gimmick or a marketing plan.
"More than anything," the singer explained, "if you concentrate on the most important things, the studio and the stage, then the rest kind of falls in naturally. The show and then the studio, and if you don't get the connection, you're not gonna get anywhere in the business. You can't have one without the other."

A link in the great Texas singer-songwriter tradition, Green caught the bug for writing songs from fellow Texans Jerry Jeff Walker and Robert Earl Keen. Mainstream singer-songwriter stars Bruce Springsteen and Dave Matthews inspired him, too.

"It was the songwriter that first caught me," Green said. "And then the songwriter up on a huge stage, in front of all the lights and people, really solidified that was what I wanted to do."
Green is about to enter a new phase in his career. He's left the New York-based Republic Records and is considering offers from major labels in Nashville. Breaking a country act such as himself from New York was just too difficult, he said.

Republic, Green said, "got tired of running into the same walls. We were like, 'OK, we gotta make this thing happen down in Nashville.' "

This sort of thinking represented a change of mind for Green.
"I thought for the longest time that Nashville was the enemy," he admitted. "But, really, there's a certain few people in Nashville that run the music business in directions that I don't like. So long as I steer clear of them it's all cool.

"I'm not trying to be corporate," Green said. "I'm not trying to sell out. I'm just trying to get my music in the largest number of ears I can get it in. In order to do that, you have to navigate that slippery side of the business. That's something I wasn't prepared to deal with when I was 18. Now that I have a wife and kid and I'm 30, I'm like, 'OK, I can deal with this.' "

Kenny's Thoughts on His New Album "The Road and the Radio"

Source: netmusiccountdown.com

NASHVILLE, TN Wednesday Oct.19.2005 -- Kenny Chesney tells Country Weekly that he just couldn't quite declare his "The Road and the Radio" CD finished until he found the single, "Who You'd Be Today.""I realized we had a pretty good album but not a great one," Kenny explained. Finding "Who You'd Be Today" helped bring it all together. "After I recorded this song, I found a few others that started to fit. Creatively, this was the most challenging record I've made... But I'm proud of this record because of it."

Chesney Wins ASCAP Voice of Music Award

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Kenny Chesney has won the ASCAP Voice of Music Award at the performing-rights organization’s 43rd annual country music awards show.

“First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter,”

Kenny performed his song “I Go Back” at the annual ASCAP Country Music Awards at the Ryman Auditorium.

“First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter,” accepting the honor, said the 37 year old Chesney. His new album, “The Road and the Radio,” will be released in November 2005.

Previous recipients of the award, given to songwriters whose music gives people’s lives a voice through song, are Garth Brooks, Amy Grant, George Strait and Diane Warren.

Craig Wiseman of group Rascal Flatts was named ASCAP’s songwriter of the year for singles that include “In a Real Love,” “Live Like You Were Dying,” “Rough and Ready” and “That’s What It’s All About.”

ASCAP named “Live Like You Were Dying,” a Tim McGraw hit on which Wiseman shares writing credit, its song of the year.

Wiseman has written or co-written 90 charted singles and 13 No. 1 country hits throughout his career. This was his second ASCAP songwriter of the year award. ASCAP’s songwriter/artist of the year is John Rich of duo Big & Rich, who co-wrote “Here for the Party,” “Holy Water,” “Redneck Woman,” “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” and “When I Think About Cheatin.”

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is among three U.S. performing-rights organizations that represent songwriters in licensing music and collecting and distributing royalties from play on radio and in television, films, ads and other media.

Renee Thinking About Adoption

Not that I really care about Renee too much anymore... But I thought it would be important to post this for Chesney fans like you and myself to see what's really going on inside her pretty little head. lol!

Source: monstersandcritics.com
Renee Zellweger has revealed she wants to adopt an orphaned baby, just days after her ex Jack White announced he is expecting his first child.

The Hollywood actress is said to be desperate to have children but, since splitting from husband Kenny Chesney last month, has been left with little hope.

So the 'Bridget Jones' actress has reportedly asked advice from Angelina Jolie, who has an adopted Cambodian tot Maddox, four, and Ethiopian baby Zahara.

The pair are reportedly planning a trip to Ethiopia where there are five million orphans.
A source at the country's state-run adoption agency said: "Renee still has to meet the same ten conditions as everybody else.

"The main two are that she's financially secure and law-abiding."

The news of Jack White's impending fatherhood came less than a month after Renee's marriage to country singer Kenny Chesney ended.

Renée and Kenny shocked fans when they announced they had wed on May 9 in a sunset ceremony in the Virgin Islands.

But just four months later their marriage was annulled, with the 'Bridget Jones' star citing 'fraud' as the reason for their split.

The White Stripes frontman and British model Karen Elson made announced the pregnancy to their family last weekend, in Michigan.

White secretly wed Elson in a canoe on the Amazon in June, just four months after he split from Renée.

Chesney: Finalist In The Top Tour Category

Source: Billboard.com

U2's mammoth Vertigo tour is a finalist in four categories for the Billboard Touring Awards, the most of any outing this year. The outing is a finalist in the top tour, top draw and top Boxscore categories, and U2's management company Principle Management is a finalist for top manager.

The Billboard Touring Awards recognize the year’s highest achievements in the concert industry. The awards, which are based on box-office data gathered from Billboard Boxscore reports from Nov. 24, 2004, through Sept. 30, 2005, will be presented at an Oct. 26 reception at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York that wraps the second annual Roadwork conference.

Neil Diamond and Kenny Chesney are also finalists in the top tour category, which reflects gross dollars. U2, Chesney and Dave Matthews Band are finalists in the top draw category, which reflects total attendance. Chesney’s A Place in the Sun tour is also in the running for top package.

Another multiple finalist is the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn., which is among the leading performers in the top Boxscore and top festival categories.

The breakthrough act award recognizes an artist or band in its first decade that cracks the top 25 tours listings for the first time. Coldplay and Rascal Flatts fit that description this year.
Finalists in the top manager and top agency categories are based on the combined totals of all the acts they represent in the top 25 tours.

As previously reported, the Dave Matthews Band will receive Roadwork '05's Humanitarian Award for the band's philanthropic efforts. Pioneering promoter Jack Boyle, chairman emeritus for Clear Channel Entertainment and founder of Cellar Door Concerts, will receive the Legend of Live Award.

ASCAP to honor Kenny Chesney

Source: NewKerala

NASHVILLE: The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Thursday named Kenny Chesney as the recipient of its highest country music award.

Chesney will be given the Voice of Music Award during the 43rd Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards gala Oct. 17 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

The publishers and writers of the most performed country songs in 2004 that are registered with ASCAP will also be honored.

The award going to Chesney honors artists and songwriters whose music gives people a voice, ASCAP said in a news release.

Only four other artists have received the award: Garth Brooks, George Strait, Diane Warren and Amy Grant.

Chesney was named Entertainer of the Year by both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music.

Interview With Country Weekly

Source: Country Weekly

In a Country Weekly exclusive, Kenny opens up about the tough times, The Road and the Radio—and his new life.

From afar, Kenny Chesney's Nashville-area home looks like a postcard of a stately English countryside mansion. The paved path leading to his driveway curves around tall trees and vast expanses of green lawn, stretching over about four long city blocks. It's a stunning piece of property, even by country star standards.

Once inside Kenny's house, it's apparent this East Tennessee native enjoys his down-home comforts. Photos are everywhere, on walls and nearly every table. Most are candid shots of family and friends enjoying themselves—and plenty of shots from the islands, too.

The living room centers on a large, flat-screen TV and looks set up for friends to cheer on Kenny's beloved University of Tennessee Volunteers. The kitchen has a stainless steel blender pulled to the front of the counter, and the way the glasses and plates are arranged on shelves suggests they get plenty of use.

Zellweger Confronts Reporter

Source: News24

Los Angeles - Renee Zellweger has stormed into a newspaper office to confront a reporter who apparently made her look "slutty".

The Oscar winner, recently split from husband Kenny Chesney, was furious when the New York Post said she had a new man.

The newspaper had described Irish singer Damien Rice as "her new beau", reports the Mirror.
The star went into the office and rang the reporter, saying: "Come down because I want to talk to you."

She told the writer: "That story was hurtful about me being with another man. It wasn't true and it made me look slutty."

Zellweger, 36, insisted she and Rice were old friends and denied they were romantically involved.

More Info on Kenny's New Album, Appearances

Source: Reuters

Newly single country superstar Kenny Chesney will release his second studio album of the year on November 8, and is planning a number of television appearances to promote the set. "The Road and the Radio" (BNA) is expected to feature 11 tracks, including first single "Who You'd Be Today," "Tequila Loves Me (Even if You Don't)," "Another Beer in Mexico," "Living in Fast Forward" and "You Save Me."

Chesney topped the Billboard 200 albums chart in February with "Be As You Are: Songs From an Old Blue Chair," which has sold 1 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Although Chesney has yet to announce tour plans in support of the set, he has scheduled a November 7 performance on ABC's "Good Morning America" in New York's Times Square. The network is also preparing a Chesney special to air the week of Thanksgiving.

Hello ... Goodbye

Source: People Magazine

Pretty good article in People magazine about Kenny and Renee. Here's a little bit of the article this week:

Four months after their island wedding, Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney take the drastic step of annulment. Says a friend: 'It just wasn't right for either of them'.

On Sept. 16, the day after the sudden end of her four-month marriage to Kenny Chesney became public, Renée Zellweger was in New York, where she turned up at a steakhouse in the Hamptons. She requested a table for one, kicked off her sandals and quietly dined on salmon and steamed spinach before leaving a $100 tip. "She didn't act sad or upset," says an observer. "She was so sweet."