4 April 2005
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Kenny Chesney's EVERYWHERE --
Caribbean Travel & Leisure, Details, Country Weekly, In Style & "Today" 4/28
 

    Nashville: Between setting up a tour, delaying a tour, launching an album that debuted at #1 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 Chart with no single and no tour, rehabbing the ankle that was injured, doing the Houston Rodeo anyway, it's hard to imagine that Kenny Chesney has had time to do anything else! And yet, starting right now, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year is about to start popping up in magazines across the board.

    "Oh, you know, you kinda hate acting like you're too busy for people," says Chesney with a laugh. "We've done interviews and photo shoots jammed into some pretty crazy hours, stuffing an hour in here, 20 minutes there. With everything we did setting up the island record, I'm kind of amazed that there's anything left to say."

    Currently on stands with a 5-page spread in the current Caribbean Travel & Leisure, the man whose introspective songs of revelry and revelation Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair, which is now well-past platinum talks with editor-in-chief Dave Herndon about both the islands' pull and the wisdom that he gained there. The high-end travel magazine -- dedicated to vacationing and living in the tropics -- rarely profiles celebrities, let alone devotes this kind of space.

    "It was a lot like making Be As You Are," Chesney says of the interview, "because we were talking pretty deeply about how the islands changed my life. There's a lot of wisdom that people miss, and of course a whole lot of fun; but I don't get to talk to very many people that deeply about a place that's so close to my heart, because it did give me the piece of mind to do a lot of what we've been doing for the last several years."

    Slated for the May issue of Details, due on stands shortly, contributing editor Jeff Gordinier spent two days in Nashville, trying to understand the man who makes the songs that touch people's own lives so deeply. And In Style's West Coast editor Mark Morrison is going to get up-close and personal for their July issue -- which will look at how Chesney lives in Nashville when he's not on the road with 16 semis, 15 buses and just under 100 people.

    "It's awesome to me the number of people who don't really know who you are, but who're finding this music now and are curious," admits the singer/songwriter from Luttrell, Tennessee. "And my attitude is always to let people have a sense of who you are, so they know where this music and these songs come from.  Because it is my life, or the life of people I know."

    Certainly the readers who know him best would be the people picking up Country Weekly. For their May 5th issue, Kenny will bring those folks behind the scenes for what it takes to follow-up the biggest-ticket-selling tour -- other than Prince's Musicology with 1.2 million fans played to, what he wants to give the fans, why he does it -- and most importantly, what those very same fans do for him.

    With an April 11th performance on the CMT Music Awards -- where he's up for Video of the Year, along with Hottest, Male, Event and Director -- and a 3-song appearance on "The Today Show" from Nashville on April 28, there'll be plenty of chances to plug into the man whose moving towards #1 with "Anything But Mine" before he gets to your hometown. And then there's the little matter of Las Vegas on May 17 -- where he's nominated for Entertainer, Album, Male and a pair of Vocal Events at the 40th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. So if you want 'em, you got 'em, indeed.

 

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