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Watch a clip below from last night’s show.Skip to 4:45 for Kenny:

Kenny Chesney brought every ounce of on-stage energy and charisma fans are accustomed to seeing at the nearly perennial summer concert at Heinz Field Saturday night.

The man from Tennessee brought his Goin’ Coastal 2011 tour to the Steelers stadium for his fifth Heinz Field appearance in six years, this time with Zac Brown Band, Uncle Kracker and Billy Currington tagging along.

It had been two years since Chesney fans in Pittsburgh had the opportunity to see him perform in the Steel City. Mr. Chesney opted out of touring in 2010 to focus on his new album, “Hemingway’s Whiskey,” and recharge his batteries, he said.

He seemed to have mustered up all the alkaline he needed and then some Saturday night, when he flew into Heinz Field on a hovering chair over the 50-yard line, donning his notorious cowboy hat and cut-off T-shirt bearing the keystone symbol.

(hat tip Phyllis)

It had been four years since country concert king Kenny Chesney had performed in the Twin Cities. In the music business, four years is a long time. You can launch a superstar career (Taylor Swift). Suffer in purgatory (Dixie Chicks). Or fade away (hello Faith, Shania and Garth).

Maybe four is a lucky number for Chesney. Friday night at the soldout Xcel Energy Center was the fourth concert on the Goin’ Coastal Tour by the Country Music Association’s four-time entertainer of the year. And he started in fourth gear the moment he hit the stage.

Chesney was all revved up. He was full throttle for — you guessed it — the first four songs, boot scootin’ bouncing all over his cross-shaped runway like a hyperkinetic kid on the playground after being pent up in school all day. When he finally paused for a breath, the 15,927 fans greeted him with a thunderous ovation.

“From the sound of things, it sounds like it was four years too long,” declared Chesney, already sweating like he was in mid-workout.

The Phillies official twitter said that Chesney was a guest of All-star pitches Roy Halladay and Roy Oswalt.

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The video reportedly won’t be released until next summer or fall.

Read more about the video shoot here.

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The show debuted this week exclusively for Dish Network subscribers. For everyone else, you can watch the special when it makes its CMT debut on Monday, September 27th, the day before Kenny’s new album Hemingway’s Whiskey is released.

According to some of our visitors that attended the taping, Kenny played a few songs off the new album, including “Somewhere With You,” “The Boys of Fall,” “Coastal,” “You and Tequila,” and “Hemingway’s Whiskey.” We’re not sure whether the question and answer session shown on Dish Network will also be shown when it airs on CMT.

(photo Rick Diamond / Getty Images)

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.

Country superstar Kenny Chesney told the audience last night at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel that his band and he hadn’t rehearsed and performed together since last September as part of their break this year from arena touring, but neither Chesney nor his fans missed a beat in an energetic two-hour and 30-song performance that include a small catwalk, giving fans on the floor an up-close-and-personal, hand-shaking and high-fiving experience.

From the opening “Ain’t Back Yet,” Chesney’s latest and gazillionth hit, to his final song, John Mellencamp’s “Hurts So Good,” an especially tan Chesney, in his requisite muscle T, tight faded blue jeans and (white) cowboy hat, had the audience dancing, singing and partying the entire time. Chesney is widely known for his stamina and endurance onstage, performing his big catalog of hits before launching into covers of other artists’ songs, and last night was no different.

Read the entire review here.

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