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Kenny Wakes Up & Says "Good Morning America" Feb. 16
Matches His "Late Show" with a Bright & Early Morning
 

    Nashville: With Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair poised at the top of Billboard's Top 200 and rehearsals underway for his Somewhere In the Sun tour - which kicks off with two sold-out-in-two-hours-shows in Green Bay March 10-11, Kenny Chesney intends to make the most of his day in New York. In addition to appearing on "The Late Show with Conan O'Brien" on February 16, the reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year will wake up with "Good Morning America."

    "There's nothing like Times Square in the morning," says the singer/songwriter. "When you get up and you head in there, you can feel the energy coming on in maybe the biggest city in the world, and it's a rush, I can tell you. 'GMA' has their studio smack dab in the middle of it -- so you're truly in the heart of New York City as it's clicking on."

    With "Anything But Mine" from the triple platinum Country Music Association Album of the Year When The Sun Goes Down climbing the charts and his deeply personal Be As You Are landing with 311,655 copies the first week with no single and no tour, Kenny Chesney is in high gear. And before he hits the road for the follow-up to his 1.2 million tickets sold Guitars, Tiki Bars & A Whole Lot of Love Tour, he's doing one last round of television.

    "Be As You Are was a record that wasn't supposed to be a record," says the fan-voted American Music Awards Favorite Artist of the Year. "It was a collection of songs that I wrote on my boat about the people and places and things I figured out down there. But it really seemed like a collection of songs that wanted to be heard -- and something I thought the fans might want.

    "And these songs are so much fun to perform live," he continues, "I wanted to share them with the fans before we get back to what they expect from us. So, I'm really glad the people at 'GMA' could get us on along with the people at 'Conan.' This'll probably be the last time I get to sing any of these songs on TV, so I wanna make the most of it."

    Currently on the cover of Country Weekly, Chesney kicked off the introspective singer/ songwriter package with a live hour-long "Be As You Are" special on CMT. In addition, he's appeared on the cover of Billboard and in features or major reviews in People, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, American Country and CNN.

    "Hey, I get to wake up with Diane Sawyer and hang out late with Conan O'Brien," kids Chesney. "If you're gonna do a whirlwind day of media in New York, that's a pretty cool way to spend it."

 

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