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24 March 2004
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Lei-To-Lei, Kenny Sets Record, Sells Out, Tops Out --
Kenny Chesney Hits #1 "When The Sun Goes Down"
and SROs Opening Guitars, Tiki Bars Weekend

   Nashville, TN: When Kenny Chesney got news that he'd shattered Texas
icon George Strait's Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo record, he was a bit blown
away. But when you compound that with three more SRO concerts -- where literally
there wasn't room for one more lei -- on the Lafayette, Louisiana, Tupelo and
Biloxi stops of his Guitars, Tiki Bars & A Whole Lot Of Love Tour and seeing
the Unkle Kracker duet title track to his already double platinum When The Sun
Goes Down hit #1 on both Billboard and Radio & Records' Country Singles
charts in a mere 9 weeks, well, as the commercial goes, "Life is good, indeed."

   "All I know," says the kicked-back singer/songwriter from Luttrell,
Tennessee, "is we've always had the best crowds out there -- and what we're
experiencing this time is a whole new deal! Maybe it's that the stage is less
distracting, so we're able to really interact with each other and the crowd. Maybe
it's that the lights really cast the mood -- cause these lights are pretty cool.
Or maybe, they can tell how glad we all are to be back out here with them."

   The euphoria obviously extends to country radio where "When The Sun Goes
Down" becomes Kenny's fastest #1 at Billboard -- and ties his fastest #1 at
Radio & Records, making back-to-back chart-toppers for the first two singles
from his #1 Billboard all-genre Top 200 Albums debut When The Sun Goes Down.
Chesney's "There Goes My Life" spent 7 weeks at the top of the country charts
earlier this year, making his run at #1 almost as long as the time it took his
poignant slice-of-fate song to get there.

   "It's a fun song," concedes the reigning Academy of Country Music Top
Male Vocalist of his latest #1. "There's plenty of stuff to think about on this
record, but with summer coming, I thought about what I'd want to hear coming
out of my car radio. With the spring thaw, it just seems like it's time to get
out of the house and let loose a little bit -- and to me, this is the right
song at the right time."

   Chesney is living proof timing is everything. Do what you do, stay
between the lines, keep challenging yourself to be more -- and never stop believing
in the dream. With that simple equation, even a slight statured guy from a
small town in East Tennessee who loved George Jones, George Strait and Keith
Whitley can grow up to make (literally) and break (figuratively) records, while
having a lot of fun along the way.

   As Rolling Stone wrote of the man they deemed "Nashville's Jimmy
Buffett," "Chesney knows honky tonk. But he doesn't fret over the tradition. He's too
real for that," The Los Angeles Times raved, "he sticks to a heart-on-the-sleeve directness that makes his a characteristically American voice" and The Nashville Scene proclaimed, "Kenny Chesney emerges as the unlikely heir to Garth Brooks," it's been a year of the story catching up to the artist. And for those who don't have tickets to the first leg of the Guitars, Tiki Bars & A Whole Lot Of Love Tour, you can catch the 15-million-seller and his latest #1 March 30th on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
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