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5 April 2004
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Kenny Takes A "Walk On The Wild Side"
Immortals Issue of Rolling Stone Features Full Page Spread

   Lower East Side: With a double-platinum in 30 days #1 Billboard Top 200
debut with When The Sun Goes Down, Kenny Chesney knows his days of wondering
how the Soundscan are are over. But that doesn't mean the downhome good ole boy
would ever put himself amongst the ranks of "The Immortals." Leave that to
rock Bible Rolling Stone, who tapped the singer/songwriter from Luttrell,
Tennessee, for their photo spread celebrating the great covers of the last 30 years
as part of their 50th anniversary of rock & roll edition.

   "It was originally supposed to be me and Unkle Kracker, but… well, Matt
was a little under the weather that day," says Chesney with a laugh, "so it
ended up being me going further south on Manhattan island than I had a notion
anyone could get to. And in the end, they had us on some little street, with all
these different kinds of people wandering through -- it's a side of New York I
guarantee most country fans never knew existed or will probably ever see."

   The cover the reigning Academy of Country Music Top Male Vocalist
reprised was Lou Reed's 1988 "The Rolling Stone Interview" cover shot -- in an alley
in lower Greenwich Village. For the Martin Schoeller-shot spread -- on an
exceedingly frosty day in February -- Chesney wears a ring t-shirt, his signature
black cowboy hat and jeans, so that the picture makes sense for right now.

   "The photographer was sooooo smart," says the man who spent 7 weeks at #1
with "There Goes My Life" and hit #1 again a mere 9 weeks later with his
Unkle Kracker duet "When The Sun Goes Down" gratefully. "Everybody was standing on
this narrow little street, shivering in big coats, blowing on their hands --
but Martin had a space heater with some air conditioning tubing to blow hot
air on me… I don't know if we'd've been able to get the shot or not otherwise
-- 'cause (even with the heater) it was still pretty damn cold when the wind
blew."

   Cold weather or not, Chesney's burning it up out on the Guitars, Tiki
Bars & A Whole Lot of Love Tour -- where they've been bumper to bumper and
lei-to-lei since breaking George Strait's Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo record
March 17. Hitting the road with former tourmate keith urban and newcomer Dierks
Bentley, the man nominated for Entertainer, Top Male Vocalist and Song of the
Year at the upcoming Academy of Country Music Awards and Video, Male and Hottest
Video of the Year at CMT's Flameworthy Awards has found an even more intense
reaction from the fans.

   "When the tour ended last year, I didn't think it could get any better,
stronger or more intense," says the man who's sold in excess of 15 million
albums. "And just when I was sure it couldn't be any more -- WHAM! -- here comes
this year's crowds! They've been insane, and me and the band, we're loving
every last moment of it."

   Hailed by Rolling Stone, who wrote "Nashville's own Jimmy Buffett gets a
little deep. But he doesn't fret over the tradition. He's too real for that,"
The Boston Globe offered Kenny's "dealing with tougher realities than he ever
has" and The Los Angeles Times proffered Chesney "sticks to a
heart-on-the-sleeve directness that makes his a characteristically American voice." And
that's just the beginning. Check out Rolling Stone's "The Immortals" issue -- and
see a country boy languishing in the heart of New York City.

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