The Tennessean has an interview with Kenny Chesney where they talk about “The Boys of Fall” documentary. Here are a couple excerpts:

Q. In some ways, athletes die twice. And they have the second half of one life, and sometimes more, to mourn the death of their athletic life. So much of what you have in the video is people looking back?

A: Interviewing (two-time Super Bowl winning coach) Bill Parcells, he said something like, “Look, we’re all just riding the train. One day they’re going to ask us all to get off. And we shouldn’t be bitter about that because the experience of being on the train is so great.” And that’s life, too. No matter what level you make it to, enjoy it.

Q: Were you ever star struck, talking to these people?

A: When I sat down with Joe Namath at his home in Florida, I was like, “What am I doing here?” But, man, he was such a great guy to talk to, with so much passion and energy about the game of football. All these guys have different paths, every one. But they’re all incredibly passionate about what they believe to be true, and what their life is like because of the game of football. I walked out of the Namath interview going, “How can I apply what he said to my life?”

Read the full interview here.

And be sure to watch “The Boys of Fall” when it premieres on ESPN this Sunday at 2 pm ET.

US Magazine has an interview with Kenny Chesney that is exclusively about football and his documentary The Boys of Fall:

Us: What was it like sitting down with your football heroes?

KC: Some of these people I knew, some of them I didn’t. I had never met Brett Favre in my life. But Brett and me will be friends forever now. He was just like the guys in my family, the guys I grew up with. When I landed in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, I’d never met him. I had his number and we were texting back and forth getting this interview set up. When I landed, I said ‘What’s for dinner?’ just joking with him. I got nothing back. I was like ‘Uh-oh, I pissed Brett Favre off.’ I got home and I sent him a message that said I was just kidding, just joking and still got nothing back. So we made it to his house, we did the interview, and after we got done with the interview, he said ‘I want you guys to come in here.’ And there were about 30 of us in this film crew. We go into his house and the reason he didn’t text me back was because he had gone and gotten a barbecue dinner for all of us. It was a crazy twist where all of a sudden we’re in Brett Favre’s house eating.

Check out the full interview here.

Cody Alan of CMT Radio sat down with Kenny Chesney to talk about the new single and upcoming album.

Click here to listen!

Kenny and Alan discussed “The Boys of Fall,” how his high school football coach inspired him, how his year “off” has been and why he went with Hemingway’s Whiskey for the title of the new album.

Pre-order Hemingway’s Whiskey now at Amazon for $10.99.

Parade Magazine has an excellent interview with Kenny Chesney covering a wide range of topics, from football to marriage, having kids, playing at the Super Bowl, how he stays grounded, his new single, and much more.

Here are a couple excerpts:

Last fall, something inside Chesney changed.

“I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper. You’d think I’d have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it’s an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.”

Today, dating is a whole new ballgame.

“The world is a different place now. I mean, if I go out with a girl, there is a possibility that she’s going to get up from the dinner table and go to the bathroom and use Twitter to tell everybody what she’s doing. And the next thing you know, everybody’s got a play-by-play of what you’re having for dinner. That would make anybody uncomfortable.”

The other misconception about Chesney is that he’s not comfortable without his hat.

“When I was 17 or 18, I’d take my helmet off on the field, and I’d see hair in it and go, ‘Good God! What’s going on?.’ It did bother me in college a little bit–going bald–but it doesn’t at all now. What’s ironic about it is that friends of mine in their 30s and 40s are just starting to lose their hair and are freaking out. I went through all that in high school.”

Read more excerpts from the interview here and here.

There is also an accompanying photo shoot that you can view here.

Look for the full interview with Kenny in the Sunday, August 8th issue of Parade, available in your Sunday newspaper.

Attention Knoxville-area fans, WVLT (Volunteer TV) will air a special with Kenny Chesney next week:

WVLT, Channel 8, will present a 30-minute special centering on prime anchor Alan Williams’ recent interview withKenny Chesney. “The Good Stuff: A Conversation with Kenny Chesney” will air at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 27.

Williams talks to Chesney about his career, his memories of growing up in East Tennessee and his plans for the future.

The interview was conducted before Chesney appeared at a Variety benefit in Knoxville in April.

Kenny Chesney went all out over the weekend for two shows at The Joint in Las Vegas. On Friday night, Kenny played for 2+ hours and then topped that on Saturday night playing past midnight for a total of 4+ hours (we’re still looking for the set list for this show. E-mail us please).

“You know, when people thought I could go a whole year without playing live, I wondered who they were talking about,” Chesney laughed. “Certainly not me. I love making music, especially making music for people, too much! There was no way… I needed to get my foot off the gas, but that didn’t mean I wanted to cut off the thing that makes me happiest.”
Broadcasting live on No Shoes Radio (www.noshoesradio.com) the first night, Chesney’s freewheeling set was the essence of Keg in the Closet: obscure older songs, rock, alternative and country covers and all the hits that the fans want to hear. Clocking in at 2 hours, it was the best of the traditional shows fans have come to expect and the ragtag Keggers that are as much about the music that influenced the man as is own hits.

“We blew it up Friday night,” said Chesney. “We knew we were broadcasting on No Shoes Radio and that the Hard Rock was matching donations at the door, so we were going for it… and the fans were loving it, so why stop playing?”

How does one top that? A marathon 4 hours and 15 minutes the following night. “We knew we were gonna be putting it up for another month, so we figured we’d go as long as they stayed… and we hit everything! I did ‘Hungry Heart’ acoustic… We played ‘I’m Alive’ for the first time, and ‘You Save Me,” half the Be As You Are record… a buncha covers form the Violent Femmes to Steve Miller… and we went and we went and they stayed and they stayed, and then we played some more.”

Kenny’s next show is at the end of the month in Baton Rouge, followed by BamaJam Music Festival in June and then he’ll return to Las Vegas July 2nd and 3rd for two more shows. See his full 2010 (With a Two) Tour Dates.

Anderson Cooper tweeted this afternoon that he’ll be reporting on the flooding in Nashville and will interview Kenny Chesney:

AC360 with Anderson Cooper airs at 10 pm ET on CNN.

Update – Kenny just tweeted the below picture with this message: “Sending Anderson Cooper footage of my house under water for tonight. TN is a mess. You need to see it. 10p ET CNN.”

(H/T to faithfreek for passing this on)

Kenny Chesney recently sat down with CMT Radio’s Cody Alan for an interview.

They discussed plans for next year, the 3D movie, who Kenny thinks is the sexiest woman out there, and a few other topics.

Click here to listen to the interview.

(h/t to Sherri for passing this along)

Kenny Chesney’s life is “real enough”, so don’t expect to see him on reality TV or even acting on the big screen:

My life’s real enough, you know? I don’t think so. I really don’t. I just don’t think that I would. I would rather concentrate on tryin’ to connect with fans in the audience and tryin’ to write a great song and cut great music, and that takes up a lot of time, to be honest with you. I don’t think you’ll ever see me do that.”

Kenny adds that he lacks the desire — and the talent — to act. “I’ve even had a lot of people ask me if I want to act. I’m never sayin’ never, but it’s not something I wake up everyday wanting to do, and so I don’t think I’d ever take a year off to go do a movie or something. I wouldn’t be that good at it anyway. I think I realized doin’ the ‘You Save Me’ video where it took us three days to shoot three minutes of an opening of a video. I realized right then I wanted my day job back — that I was never gonna have the patience to act (laughs).” .)

(h/t to Bonnie for passing this along)