For Immediate Release
22 June 2004
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Kenny Chesney's Million Dollar Night --
2nd Raleigh Show, Philly Sell Out In A Couple Hours

Tacoma, WA: Say what you want about the Pacific Northwest and country
music… If the Seattle/Tacoma area is Ground Zero for the feedback-laden grunge
music movement that spawned Nirvana, Mudhoney, Bikini Kill and later Pearl Jam,
they also love their country music -- as Kenny Chesney became the first
million dollar grossing country act to play the much vaunted Tacoma Dome, setting an
attendance record in the process.

   "It's one of those things, when they tell you about it, you can't really
get your head around it," says the man whose spent 15 weeks at #1 with "There
Goes My Life" and the title track from his double platinum-and-heading for
triple When The Sun Goes Down. "Though obviously trying to keep our ticket prices
down, the idea of hitting THAT number is pretty mind-bending.

   "I don't know that me or the guys think in terms of numbers… That's just
math. But when you hit the stage, you hear those fans -- that's when the idea
of an attendance record takes on a sense of 'Whoa…,' because you can feel that
energy. When the screen drops and I can see the fans for the first time, when
they scream or yell or clap or jump up and down, it's like the whole world
sorta explodes!

   "And when you look out, you don't think about the number, you think about
how psyched they are to be there… When I sing 'I Go Back,' I remember
concerts I went to -- or concerts I wished I'd had the money to go to, what I figured
they were like… and I hope that maybe one day, that's how some of those
people are gonna feel about seeing me and the guys."

   The Messina Group's Louis Messina, who's promoted the George Strait
Festival Tours and the past couple Dixie Chicks treks -- and has produced Kenny's
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems, Margaritas'n'Senoritas and Guitars, Tiki
Bars tours, concerts. "The energy here is incredible… it's not like anything
I've ever been involved in! And to watch it building over the last couple years
-- Kenny has just blown up, You can feel the anticipation when people are
coming in, and that excitement just builds. Then when he hits the stage -- WHAM!"

   Kenny Fever is certainly reaching a frenzied pace across the country.
Having sold-out Atlanta in less than 15 minutes, his Philadelphia concert went
clean in just over two hours. And if the Kenny Chesney ticket isn't impossible
to come by, it's not exactly something to take for granted having. A second
Raleigh, North Carolina show was added -- and also sold out in less than two
hours -- after breaking last year's attendance record, only to have fans cutting
holes in the fence to get into the shows.

   "It's pretty crazy, no doubt about it," says the man whose solely
self-penned 'I Go Back' celebrates the power of music to capture a moment forever.
"Wherever we go, it just seems to be getting bigger, more intense -- and the
fans are incredible. As someone who is a fan, I can only hope I was as crazy and
fun as the people coming to see me, because these people are a blast --
exactly the kind of people I love to party and hang out with!" ########