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Kenny Chesney played a show at The Joint at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday Night and the Las Vegas Sun has some photos.
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The Sun City Carnival Tour continues today with Kenny performing at the Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California.
 Kenny Chesney keeps rocking this weekend with a pair of shows out west. On Saturday night, Kenny takes his Sun City Carnival Tour to The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Then on Sunday he’ll play at the Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, California.
After this mini West Coast swing, Chesney will head to the Midwest for a round of shows starting in San Antonio on May 1st.
Check out all of the dates on the Sun City Carnival Tour here.
Tickets are still available for many shows, get yours now!
 Kenny Chesney will perform on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday, May 19th, the same day that his “Greatest Hits II” is released. He’ll sing his new hit “Out Last Night”.
“It’s a fun song.” Chesney said, “and everybody’s been there. You’re not goin’ out, you’re not stayin’ out late… one thing leads to another, and next thing you’re crawlin’ in, goin’ ‘How’d that happen?’ But you have a lot of fun in the process. I think the Letterman Show has a lot of that same spirit, so I can’t think of a better place to sing it.”
“I’ve heard it coming out of a few car radios and it makes me feel like summer,” said Chesney. “You know, some songs just make you smile when you hear it…And this one, maybe because I remember all the fun me and Brett (James) and my buddies got in that night. Nothing too major, just the stuff guys do when they’re out…But if it can make other people smile the way it does me when I hear it on the radio, then I think we’ve got something.”
(hat tip to Leslie for passing this along!)
 According to Forbes magazine, Kenny Chesney is the highest-earning country music artist over the past year with 65 million dollars:
Kenny Chesney tops the list of the highest-earning country stars over the last year, according to Forbes magazine. The publication calculated concert grosses, merchandise revenue, album sales and income from endorsement and licensing deals since June 2008, and the totals include projected earnings through May 2009. Chesney was trailed by Rascal Flatts ($60 million), Toby Keith ($52 million), Taylor Swift ($18 million), Brooks & Dunn and Tim McGraw ($16 million each), Brad Paisley ($15 million), Sugarland and Carrie Underwood ($14 million each) and Alan Jackson ($12 million).
Kenny Chesney’s latest single “Out Last Night” climbed four spots this week to number 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart.
The song will be included on Kenny’s upcoming album “Greatest Hits II” which you can pre-order now at Amazon.com. It hits stores May 19th.
 Kenny Chesney’s Sun City Carnival Tour rolls into Albuquerque, New Mexico tonight for a show at the Journal Pavilion. It’s the first of three western tour stops (Vegas and Indio, CA are the others) before a string of midwest dates in May.
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 KennyChesney.com has an article on the opening to Kenny’s show this year:
Friday night at the Mohegan Sun, Kenny Chesney emerged from under a camera stand at the back of the arena floor, stepped over a bar that was rising – and began swinging towards the stage. Only this swing – that more resembled a trapeze it’s so small – doesn’t just run to the stage on a track; it is wired to go right and left as well as side-to-side, allowing the high-energy showman to literally fly to any section of the floor he wishes.
On the ride to the stage in Uncasville – where the he played to two beyond capacity crowds who snapped up the tickets in less than 12 minutes – Chesney rode low over the fans heads, high-fiving and waving, as he moved to the right, then to the left. His rig also allows him to turn in mid-air, so while starting facing the stage, by the time he lands, he has been spun around to be facing the audience.
“I knew this was something we could do,” Chesney says with a laugh, “it was just a matter of figuring out how to make it safe enough – because there’s not a whole lot holding me up there. And, obviously because we’re not on a track, but cables, there needed to be different kinds of systems in place to make it work… but the tech people we work with figured it out.
“And what’s so cool about this entrance — beyond the way it feels when I’m up there flying, which is a rush – is if I want to take somebody a beer in the back of section 6 or whatever, I could. We’re still really learning what all the swing is capable of doing (and how to do it), but just being able to literally cover the entire floor last night was insane. Even more of a rush for me than running through the crowds to get to the stage.”
Read the entire article here.
 Thomas Kintner of The Hartford Courant has a review of Kenny Chesney’s opening show on Friday night at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, CT: “A Lot Of Show In Kenny Chesney Concert”
There was a lot of show in Chesney’s show: an array of lights that shone as frequently on the audience as the singer, a 12-piece band that put more muscle into tunes than the 41-year-old Tennessee native had protruding from his sleeveless tank top, and multiple video screens that showed his every move from multiple angles. He started the show aloft, carried to the set on a seat that dangled from the rafters as he barked a song he has often used to close his shows, “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy.”
Amid all that, Chesney was most comfortable as a blunt instrument, a shouter whose conviction celebrated treacle-trimmed nostalgia in “Live Those Songs” as surely as it embraced the beefy sway of “Summertime” alongside a swirl of three electric guitars. He posed and pointed by way of punctuating his odes to the wonders of youth, ladling urgency atop the bounding “Keg in the Closet” and strumming out swatches of acoustic guitar here and there to dress the blown-up “Out Last Night.”
His set was a flurry of hooks, pop-heavy tunes that were filled out by a four-piece horn section in the likes of “Big Star” and the thumping “Living in Fast Forward.” Chesney prodded his lyrics, whether herding those party vibes or going for reminiscence in the thick “Never Wanted Nothing More,” always maximizing the enthusiasm of his sound at the expense of nuance, but selling songs with such a vengeance that even the horribly clunky lyrics of “Young” sounded like they were meant to be that way.
Continue reading the review here.
The article lists the following as the set list:
She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
Live Those Songs
Summertime
Beer in Mexico
Keg in the Closet
Out Last Night
Big Star
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
I Go Back
Anything but Mine
Down the Road
Me and You
Living in Fast Forward
Young
Never Wanted Nothing More
Back Where I Come From
How Forever Feels
Everybody Wants to go to Heaven
When the Sun Goes Down
Don’t Happen Twice
Jack and Diane
(Encore)
Don’t Blink
For those of you that attended the Saturday show, were there any changes in the set list?
(hat tip to seymour for the photo)
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