The video for Kenny Chesney’s latest single “I’m Alive” is nearing completion, and it includes a lot of footage from this year’s tour.

“You know the song is about recognizing that no matter what happens, you’re still here,” Chesney says, “and that’s a good thing. It’s easy as the lyric says to say that life is hard, but the other side of that is being willing to admit that life isn’t one continuous party. You have to take moments to reflect, to look at where you’ve been, where you’re going, to find new dreams. I wanted this video to reflect that.”

Much of the footage for the video was taken at the NFL stadium shows, but also some clips will be from the smaller keg shows that were played before the official start of the tour. Black and white photos of Chesney and Dave Matthews will be incorporated into the video.

“Shaun (Silva) and his guys have really been shooting this tour, but beyond the obvious stuff, they’ve been trying to capture who I am when I’m not on that stage or meeting people,” explains Chesney. “And there are a lot of times out there where I am thinking about all that’s happened, how we got here and what this music means, not just to me because to me it’s my life, but to the unbelievable fans who come out… how they get through stuff in their lives through these songs.”

“Somebody said to me that it’s been a long time since anyone’s seen my soul in one of these clips,” Chesney states. “And you know, they may be right… because you get so caught up in the energy, in the show, in the good times of these songs, why would you go there. But for this song, well, it just seemed like the right thing to do, and Shaun and his guys really captured the essence of who I am.”

No word yet on when the video will debut but with the single already climbing the charts, it should be soon.

(h/t Katie)

The ABC Television Network will air “CMA Music Festival: Country’s Night To Rock” tonight. It will feature many of the acts from this year’s festival, including Kenny Chesney:

Filmed in Nashville June 11-14, the special has been expanded to three hours to showcase more of today’s most exciting Country Music stars. Kenny Chesney, Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley
, Darius Rucker, Sugarland and Taylor Swift are the first performers to be confirmed, with more artists to be announced soon.

The annual CMA Music Festival is unlike any other, with four days filled with more than one hundred hours of live music, 30 hours of autograph signings by Country Music’s biggest names and up and comers, hundreds of artists and celebrities, and a party list of thousands of avid fans. This is the fifth time ABC will broadcast this special – which invites the whole country to America’s biggest Country Music bash – since the original Fan Fair(R) was launched in 1972. This year an average of 56,000 fans attended each day of CMA Music Festival, its biggest turnout yet.

Be sure to tune in from 8:00-11:00 PM/ET on the ABC Television Network!

Kenny Chesney performed at the New York State Fair in Syracuse on Friday night to nearly 16,000 fans. Syracuse.com has a review of the show: “It’s a good time in the rain with Kenny Chesney at the New York State Fair Grandstand”

Right after he had the almost-capacity crowd of about 16,000 swaying to his feel-good summer song “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem,” country music star Kenny Chesney shared an honest-as-it gets moment with the fans at the state fair’s Mohegan Sun Grandstand on Friday night.

“Anybody who watches TV knows that the whole world has problems,” Chesney said. “Serious ones. We ain’t going to solve a single one of them tonight.”

No, it was a night for singing along in the rain to songs that Chesney’s delivered to the world to see them rocket to the top of the country charts.

The moment he took the stage, Chesney took the familiar pose that’s worked its way into hearts and minds. Blue-jeaned legs apart. Sleeveless arms around the microphone. Bent-side-brimmed cowboy hat perched on his head.

And that distinctive voice of his rode a tasty wave put out by his 11-piece band.

Read the full review here.

News 10 has some video from the show. Watch it here

The Sun City Carnival Tour continues Saturday with a show at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, VA. No Shoes Radio will broadcast live from 11am-1pm at Hooters in Manassas (8503 Rixlew Drive).

Congratulations to Denise for winning the latest Kenny Chesney Caption Contest!

We posted the below image last week and asked you to come up with your own caption for it:

Here was Denise’s winning caption:

“I said no video cameras!”

And here are the full results:

Thanks to all who submitted a caption and for all of you who voted! We’ll do another contest soon.

The 2009 ACM Top New Group is joining Kenny Chesney for two shows at the end of this year’s Sun City Carnival Tour. The Zac Brown Band will be among the opening acts at the September 17th show in Bloomington, IL and the September 19th show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Tour regular Lady Antebellum will not be at these two shows.

Get tickets to these shows at TicketMaster or StubHub.

The Zac Brown Band has charted three songs, including their latest: “Toes”.

A few days ago we posted the below picture and asked you to come up with your own caption. We’ve picked 5 of our favorites and want you to vote on your favorite in the poll below the image.

In its fifth week on the chart, Kenny Chesney’s latest single “I’m Alive” climbs two spots to number 21 on the Billboard Top Country Songs Chart. The song comes in at number 90 on the all-genre Top 100 Chart.

Jason Aldean takes over the top spot this week with “Big Green Tractor.”

You can preview and download the single below from Amazon or get it from iTunes

From CMT.com:

Kenny Chesney has written a song to be used exclusively on ESPN’s college football game and studio telecasts during Dick’s Sporting Goods Kickoff Week (Sept. 3-7) and Championship Saturday (Dec. 5) as well as select games throughout the season and bowl games. ESPN will debut the song during its pregame show on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m.

The song, “This Is Our Moment,” will be used as an opening tease, as the networks go in and out of commercial breaks, and for promotions of upcoming programs and show elements across ABC and across ESPN platforms.

Chesney was inspired to start writing the song on a cocktail napkin last fall during a dinner in Nashville with play-by-play announcer Brett Musburger, football analyst Kirk Herbstreit and producer Bill Bonnell. Chesney was a guest on ESPN’s College Game Day telecast from Vanderbilt during their game against Auburn last year.

Kenny Chesney is up again for the Eventful Fans’ Choice Award for the best concert tour of the year.

Click here to vote for Kenny

Chesney was the winner last year so let’s win it for him again this year!

The voting page has options to share on Facebook and Twitter so be sure to do that too.

The voting ends at 2 pm PST on Wednesday November 4, 2009 and the winners will be announced November 5th at the Billboard Touring Conference & Awards in New York City.