Kenny Chesney will develop a new rum with Constellation Spirits, Inc. The joint venture will be called Crouton Spirits, LLC:
The company, a division of Constellation Brands Inc. said in a news release Monday the joint venture with the star will be called Crouton Spirits LLC. The company will develop a premium rum, which it said is one of the fastest growing sectors in the spirits industry.
Constellation and Chesney will on every aspect of the rum, including marketing and product positioning.
“We’re looking to create a fun-in-the-sun, vacation-in-a-bottle type experience that people everywhere can enjoy when they kick back and relax,” Chesney said in a statement.
GAC has an article up where Kenny Chesney discusses how success and money doesn’t necessarily translate into happiness:
As always, Kenny pulled in millions of dollars on the tour, but the schedule also helped him remember the old adage that money can’t buy you happiness. He should know; back in 2005, Renee Zellweger had their marriage annulled just months after they tied the knot, and he went into a prolonged personal funk. It affected him when he wasn’t on stage during the tours in 2006 and 2007, and his bulging bank account wasn’t much help.
“We’re all taught as kids, the more you achieve the more money you get and the more success you have, that’s supposed to equal happiness,” he told the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. “And it’s not that way. I mean, if you’re not in the right place in your heart or your head, it don’t matter how much money you’ve got, you’re miserable.”
After wrapping up the 2008 Poets & Pirates Tour on September 13th in Indianapolis, Kenny Chesney headed down to his second home (or maybe first) in the islands. A BVI charter boat captain snapped some pictures and wrote about Kenny singing at Woody’s last Thursday night:
Ho hum, yeah, what can I say, Kenny Chesney was playing tonight at Woodys on St John… I think the big floppy hat was supposed to be a disguise, but it did not work! Lots of people there! The coconut telegraph works quickly on the island!
Check out the blog here, which includes some more pictures.
Starting today, iTunes will release a single from Kenny Chesney’s upcoming album “Lucky Old Sun” and subsequently release a new track each week up to the October 14th release of the album.
Nowhere To Go, Nowhere To Be will be out today followed by Key’s In The Conch Shell on Sept. 30 and Spirit Of A Storm on Oct. 7. The purchase of each track will count toward the cost of the album purchased on iTunes through its Complete My Album feature.
Download “Nowhere to Go, Nowhere To Be” now by clicking here!
On Saturday night, Kenny Chesney performed an acoustic set in front of 20,000 fans at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA as part of Farm Aid. The Providence Journal has the story:
Nelson showed up several times in the course of the afternoon and evening, whether it be accepting theatrically oversized checks on behalf of the organization or sitting in on songs he wrote (“Last Thing I Needed First Thing In the Morning” and “10 With a 2” during Kenny Chesney’s acoustic set; “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” and a thunderous rhumba version of “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” with Nation Beat, the latter seemingly catching Nelson off-guard).
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Kenny Chesney did an acoustic set that leaned heavily on his island-vacation persona, including a version of “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven” that, on his forthcoming record, he recorded with The Wailers.
Kenny Chesney will perform today as part of Farm Aid 2008 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA.
According to the schedule, Kenny Chesney will take the stage at 6:15 pm. Other acts performing at Farm Aid include: Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, and Willie Nelson.
You can watch Farm Aid 2008 in HD on DirectTV with no commercials beginning at 4:00 pm.
About Farm Aid:
Working to keep family farmers on their land, Farm Aid brings together family farmers and citizens to guarantee family farm food is available to you. Farm Aid’s mission is to build a vibrant family-farm centered system of agriculture in America.
In an article on GAC.com, Kenny Chesney discusses the things on his “bucket list”:
“I’d like to swim with sharks,” he told the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. “That’d be great. I was watching this thing on TV the other day about how these people would go and get in these cages and swim with sharks. It was like, ‘Wow!’ That’d be a rush. You know, I saw that movie [The Bucket List]. I don’t want to jump out of an airplane. I don’t like heights. I don’t want to bungee jump, you know? There are other things that’d make you feel alive … So, yeah, one day I’d love to do that. I’d love to swim with sharks. It’d be a big rush for me. To be that close to a great white, it’d be really, really awesome.”
Lucas Oil Stadium, host of the Kenny Chesney concert on Saturday night in Indianpolis, received numerous complaints of sound issues from the concert attendees:
Seated with her daughter in the building’s 600 level — or highest balcony — Reed had problems when Brother Trouble arrived onstage at 4 p.m.
“We could not understand one word they were saying or singing,” Reed said.
After walking to a customer service desk, Reed said she waited for 45 minutes amid dozens of other ticketholders with similar concerns.
“I wish someone in a suit just would have come down and said, ‘You know what? We have problems,’” Reed said. “We were told management was going to come down, but no one ever did.”
Officials for Lucas Oil Stadium want input from those that attended the show so that they can correct any issues in the future:
Garbled sound marred the debut concert at Lucas Oil Stadium, and building officials say they’re interested in hearing complaints.
Unwanted echoes bounced down from the stadium’s roof when supporting acts LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allan, Luke Bryan and Brother Trouble played.
Acoustics-related problems decreased after the retractable roof opened for performances by Chesney and Keith Urban.
Lucas Oil Stadium executive director Barney Levengood said feedback from concert attendees will help the facility in its quest to be considered as a tour stop when music’s biggest acts are on the road.
“We have heard from people that their sound and location was great; we have heard from others that it was not,” Levengood said. “We take those suggestions seriously. We’re going to take a look at the building and try to determine the cause. Was it the production, was it the building or a combination thereof?”
To register a complaint, Levengood advised ticketholders to call the Lucas Oil Stadium switchboard at (317) 262-8600.
Kenny Chesney’s latest single, “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven”, is in the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart after only six weeks on the air.
Here’s the Top 5:
Brad Paisley – “Waitin’ On A Woman”
Jimmy Wayne – “Do You Believe Me Now”
Darius Rucker – “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”
Keith Urban – “You Look Good In My Shirt”
Kenny Chesney – “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven”
“Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven” was at number six last week.
After wrapping up the 2008 Poets & Pirates Tour on September 13th in Indianapolis, Kenny Chesney headed down to his second home (or maybe first) in the islands. A BVI charter boat captain snapped some pictures and wrote about Kenny singing at Woody’s last Thursday night:
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Lucas Oil Stadium, host of the Kenny Chesney concert on Saturday night in Indianpolis, 
