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Kenny Chesney Closes Out Vegas Run, Rocking The JointRecord No Shoes Radio Broadcast, Plus Final Recording Sessions Wrapped

Las Vegas: When Kenny Chesney rolled into his second two-night stand at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino's The Joint, he was flying high - having wrapped the final sessions for his Sept. 28 release Hemingway's Whiskey. To kick-off Independence Day weekend, the laidback singer/songwriter pulled out some old favorites, played some obscure requests and beamed the whole thing out the first night on his Internet only No Shoes Radio (www.NoShoesRadio.com).

“There is a feeling you get when you 
know you've got it,” Chesney says  of the eagerly anticipated record, his first true studio project since 2008's Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates. “We knew after the first weekend at the Joint, we wanted to broadcast live again - especially for all the fans  who might not be able to afford to get to Vegas, because we're not getting to their towns this summer - but I also wanted to find a way to sort of all the music that led me to the point of this record.”

To that end, Chesney leaned into former set pieces like “How Forever Feels” and “Don't Happen Twice,” as well as pulling out the rarely played “Boston” and requests the second night for “The Coast of Somewhere Beautiful” and a laughing verse and chorus of 
Be As You Are's wink-and-a-nudge “Key Lime Pie.” Though not long on covers, these shows really delved into the core of the high energy's performer's catalogue.

“Wrapping up my record made me think about all the songs I've sung, the music that's been made… and you know, you get into that place where you know there are songs people want to hear you just don't get to play. What better place to do something like that than the Joint? After all, it's really a loose show… without having to hit all the light cues and the video that's been shot.

“I mean, we've done a lot of video for this year, an especially cool piece for 'Live Those Songs Again' with a lot of classic Summer of Love concert posters. Bu tthere's also room to just play… and not feel like you're losing the momentum. The people it seems come to hear the band, the songs and maybe see a more relaxed night of music… I tell more stories. We pull stuff out of the crowd. It's a different vibe, but it's a really good one.”

With work on “The Boys of Fall,” Chesney's 18-month in the making documentary about high school football and its impact on the people who play it, also in its final stages, the man who took 2010 off from his stadium-sized summer tours is gearing up to get back to what he does best: releasing new music that takes on life the way he - and a whole lot of people just like him - lives it. Look for a new song July 12th and
Hemingway's Whiskey, which people are saying deepens Chesney's already rich catalogue, Sept. 28

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