For Immediate Release
16 February 2004
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When The Sun Goes Down, Kenny & Kracker Hit "Conan"
Unkle Kracker Reprises Chesney's Title Track 2/19

   New York: In three weeks, the undulating feel good party anthem -- and
title track to the #1 album on Billboard's Top 200 and Country Album charts --
"When The Sun Goes Down" has hit #11* on Radio & Records and #13* on Billboard 's C
ountry Singles Charts, making it the fastest moving single in Kenny Chesney's career. And
to celebrate, the Luttrell, Tennessean's bringing the guy who cut the song to New York to
reprise their rocket-busting single on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."

   "Kracker's about the coolest guy I've ever met," says the reigning
Academy of Country Music Top Male Vocalist of the Year. "He has the best vibe, and
he's so damn funny. He did the first leg of Keg In The Closet with us, which
was Florida, Georgia and the University of Florida -- and all we did was laugh.
So when there's something fun going on, it's just natural that you wanna have
him around.

   "When we saw the way the single's moving… and when we were looking at the
video, which is basically Kracker and I laughing and hanging out on the beach
with a bunch of supercute girls in grass skirts, I couldn't imagine doing
'Conan' without him. And we were in luck, because he was able to come up to New
York and do this with us."

   Chesney will also wake up with Diane Sawyer Wednesday morning, Feb 18,
where he'll perform his 7 week #1 "There Goes My Life" on ABC's morning news
institution "Good Morning America." Chesney debuted the song -- about life's
unforeseen complications turning into the biggest gifts we could imagine -- on
the Country Music Association Awards telecast in November.

   For Kenny Chesney, music isn't just something to sling on the radio --
it's a reflection of his heart, life and music. So if he can live it, feel it,
sing about it, then that's all the good-timing 14-million seller -- who scanned
550,581 pieces of When The Sun Goes Down in its first week alone -- can and
will ask of the world in which he lives.

   "I'm a pretty lucky guy," says the aw-shucks songwriter, who was the
object of a 6 page feature in The Tennessean's Sunday Living section yesterday
(2/15). "I work very hard. I've tried to believe in what I was doing, what and
who I wanted this music to be and communicate to… Somewhere along the line,
people started getting it, feeling it, too. And once people saw what we were
doing, the momentum came with us -- and that's when the fun begins.

   "The idea that I'd do a whole tv show with John Mellencamp, that I'd
write songs with Kid Rock [Chesney co-wrote 'Cold & Lonesome,' Rock's brand new
single and video], that Jimmy Buffett would give me a guitar and wanna record
with me or that I'd be able to call someone like Unkle Kracker up and say, 'Hey
come do this tv show with me…' is surreal. But I think those people see what I
see in my audience, and they like the idea that none of us are above those
fans, so they wanna come have fun with me and everybody who's part of my world!
It's pretty cool when you think about it for a second; and hard to get your
head around if you think about it much longer than that!"

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