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Kenny Chesney Takes 5 Academy of Country Music Noms
CMA Entertainer of the Year Is Up for ACM Entertainer, Album, Male
& 2 Vocal Events
Nashville: He may be the reigning Country Music Association Entertainer and
Album of the Year winner -- and he'll have the opportunity to repeat those
titles when the Academy of Country Music stages their 40th Awards show live from
Manadalay Bay in Las Vegas May17th. Chesney picked up a total of 5 nominations
this morning for Entertainer, Top Male and Album for When The Sun Goes Down,
along with a pair of Vocal Event nominations for his duet with Uncle Kracker on
the title-track of his triple platinum plus release and "Hey Good Lookin'," with
Jimmy Buffett and George Strait, Clint Black, Toby Keith and Alan Jackson.
"You know I used to dread these days," says the man who played to over 1.2
million fans last year, second only to Prince for concert tickets sold. "But now
it's just the nicest way to be reminded of all the people who contribute to your
music, to your life, to making the shows so much fun."
"It takes an awful lot of really good people who are part of my team to do
what we do. When I see nominations for Entertainer or Album -- and think of all
the people who contribute in those areas of my career and music, it makes me
smile as much for them… and to get to have as much fun as I've had with
Kracker and the guys on 'Hey Good Lookin',' well, that's prize enough."
Buddy Cannon, who produced all three of Chesney's Billboard #1
all-genre Top 200 debuts No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems, When The Sun Goes
Down and Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair, received a
Producer of the Year nomination. Chesney and Cannon also enjoy an additional
nomination as Album of the Year's producers.
"Buddy Cannon is a flat-out music man. He knows how to go in and get it --
and he's really helped me create the sound in my mind," says the fan-voted
American Music Awards Favorite Artist, an award that saw him vying with Usher,
Outkast, Evanescence and fellow ACM nominee Norah Jones.
Chesney last won the 2003 Top Male Vocalist and Single of the Year Awards --
for "The Good Stuff" -- at the Academy of Country Music Awards. He is also a
past Top New Male Artist winner.
Currently in rehearsals for the kick-off of his Somewhere In The Sun Tour,
which is slated to kick-off March 10-11 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, following his
March 9 show at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, Chesney's "Anything But
Mine" leaps from 7 with a bullet from 11 on both the Billboard and
Radio & Records charts. With his tour featuring Gretchen Wilson throughout
and Uncle Kracker for the first half, Pat Green for the second half, Somewhere
in the Sun will run straight through to fall.
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