For Immediate Release
11 May 2004
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"This Is A Glimpse Into My Life, My Passion, My Soul"
Self-Penned Kenny Chesney Single His Most Personal Yet

   Nashville, TN: When Kenny Chesney went to the islands following
his belly-to-belly tour-closing performance at the Kentucky State Fair, he
was wrung out and extremely grateful to the teen, 20- and 30-something people
who'd helped make his Margaritas'n'Senoritas the #3 ticket-seller behind
Bruce Springsteen and the Dave Matthews Band. He recognized that they saw
something of themselves in his music -- and he was frustrated in his attempts to
find a song that would take that communion between the real lives of his fan and man
who sings them their life out of his own life to the next level.

   "I hadn't found the song, but I knew what I wanted to say," says
the soft-spoken Luttrell, Tennessean. "I knew how all the songs that really
touched me had impacted my life; and no matter where I was, no matter how many
years later, how those songs put me right back in the moment. I don't know if
any of my songs will ever be that for the folks coming to my shows, but I wanted
them to know that I know how important those songs that stamp your life can
be."

   Given that Chesney's music has been marked by the pivotal moments
in people's lives -- first loves, first kisses, first losses, the thrill
of recognizing the deepening of romance, the staying power of a
relationship, the recognition of how sweet a moment can be and the general joy of living
 -- it's a pretty good chance that people are stringing their memories across a laundry line
of the reigning Academy of Country Music's Top Male Vocalist and Single of the Year winner's
songs. With the 7 week #1 "There Goes My Life" -- about what seemed to be a dream-ending
circumstance turning into life's greatest gift -- and the 6 week Unkle Kracker chart-topper "When
The Sun Goes Down" -- celebrating the euphoria of kicked back celebration -- Chesney's nearly triple
platinum When the Sun Goes Down continues reflecting people's lives back at them.

   "I Go Back" raises the bar. Because when he was floating in the ocean, fretting about not being
able to find that song, he had a revelation: he could just write it himself.

   "I knew what I wanted to say; I knew all the memories that I
wanted to capture and all the songs that kept those memories so alive in my heart
and in my mind," Chesney concedes. "It's one of those things that people who
don't have a soundtrack to their lives may not get, but those songs keep
those moments right here. It's that scrapbook you can hear that makes music so
important.

   "So I sat there, floating along. Thinking about my life, about
what's happened, about how young we all were, me and David (Farmer, Chesney's
tour manager) and Tim Holt and the rest of our buddies -- and how much we
lived and loved and dreamed. Then I started writing about all of it. I can
honestly say: every note, every syllable, everything in that song was lived from
top-to-bottom. So when people are hearing 'I Go Back,' they are truly
getting a glimpse into my life, my passion, my soul. When I wrote that -- and it's rare for me to
write alone cause I like the company of writing with other people -- that's when I knew this album
had a center, had something that defined it."

   "When The Sun Goes Down" has more than a center, it's like a typhoon
-- debuting at #1 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 with sales of almost
600,00 the first week, and maintaining residency at #1 on the Country Album charts
ever since. With three Academy of Country Music nominations -- Entertainer,
Top Male and Song -- to go with his two brand new CMT Flameworthy Awards for
Hottest and Male Video of the Year, Chesney should feel pretty safe about
opening his heart and his life to the fans -- thus far, the water's been mighty
fine.

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