Superstars Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert and Rascal Flatts are headed to the INVITATION ONLY stage when all new episodes begin airing Monday, August 23. These new episodes kick off with the red hot INVITATION ONLY: MIRANDA LAMBERT premiering Monday, August 23 at 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., ET/PT.

Lambert continues her banner year by performing her most popular hits and recent number one singles including “White Liar” and the four week #1 single, “The House That Built Me’,” as well as rousing fan favorites including “Gunpowder & Lead”, “Kerosene” and more. Taped before a small studio audience in Nashville, the INVITATION ONLY series features artists performing their biggest hits and new favorites, as well as answering questions from fans during an informal question and answer session.

In addition to Lambert, new episodes of INVITATION ONLY will debut monthly this fall featuring Kenny Chesney premiering Monday, September 27, Toby Keith on Friday, October 8 and Rascal Flatts on Monday, November 15. All times are TBD. Previous episodes of INVITATION ONLY have featured Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.

CMT has posted some photos of Kenny at the ESPY Awards:

Kenny Chesney presented the final award award of the night on Wednesday at the ESPYs. It was very fitting, as the Best Team award went to Kenny’s friends: the New Orleans Saints.

A huge sports fan, here’s what Kenny said in presenting the award:

Favorite players come and go
But our favorite team is forever
Passed down from generation to generation
Like a family heirloom
Our teams represent our home town
Our father’s home town
We don’t just root for them
We live for them
We don’t just wear their colors
We bleed their colors
And win or lose we believe that our team is the best

Kenny Chesney is usually the one receiving the trophy at awards shows, but tonight he’ll be on the other side of the coin as a presenter at the 2010 ESPYs.

The ESPN ESPY’s celebrate individual and team achievements in several different sports, and the biggest athletes in the world will be in attendance. Other presenters announced on Wednesday include Chris Berman, Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage), Brooklyn Decker (Sports Illustrated cover model), Zac Efron, Will Ferrell, Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga), Samuel L. Jackson, Tracy Morgan, Danica Patrick, Stuart Scott and Shaun White.

Tune in tonight at 9 pm ET as Seth Meyers hosts the 18th annual ESPYs on ESPN.

Update – Kenny talks about being a presenter:

“Obviously, I’m friends with an awful lot of coaches and athletes,” Chesney says, “so being able to do this, is being able to honor a lot of my friends – and that’s always nice. Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve always tried to run my career like an athlete: have that discipline, that work ethic and gamesmanship… So I’d like to believe I understand how extraordinary these kinds of accomplishments are. To be able to be a part of honoring people who’ve achieved at this level… the honor is all mine.”

“When we’re on the road, we wake up with SportsCenter and leave ESPN on all day,” says Chesney. “It’s the one thing on the road that remains a constant for us out there… no matter where we are, it’s the one thing that is always on. So being asked to be a part of something with Drew Brees, Reggie Bush and Terrell Owens is cool.”

If you weren’t able to watch on CMT tonight, you can now watch the full CMT Crossroads episode with Steve Miller and Kenny Chesney at CMT.com.

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CMT has posted an excerpt from the upcoming CMT Crossroads episode with Kenny Chesney and Steve Miller. Watch them do “The Joker” below:

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The full episode will debut Friday July 9th on CMT.

Back in March, Kenny Chesney taped an episode of CMT Crossroads with Steve Miller at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. This rockin’ episode of the critically-acclaimed series will debut on Friday, July 9th at 9 pm.

At the taping, Chesney and Miller belted out hits from both of their extensive catalogs. Classics like Steve Miller’s “The Joker,” “Abracadabra,” “Jet Airliner,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” and more. On Kenny’s side, they sang “I Want My Rib Back,” “Living in Fast Forward,” and “I Go Back.”

Read our full writeup from the show here.

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While all the stars were in Las Vegas for the ACM Awards last month, a special tribute was taped for Brooks & Dunn. Kenny Chesney joined Jason Aldean, Faith Hill, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and others to salute the retiring duo.

“The Last Rodeo” will air tonight at 8 pm ET/PT on CBS, but you can watch Kenny’s performance of “You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone” now by clicking here.

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.