You often hear new music talked about with words like “highly anticipated,” and that’s certainly true for Kenny Chesney’s new album, The Big Revival, which hits music sellers everywhere on Tuesday! But it’s not just the fans who are excited about this record: so is Kenny, who took this summer off the road and poured his heart and energy into making the kind of album that he would highly anticipate! (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Don’t miss Kenny as he celebrates his album release with a performance on NBC’s Today show on Tuesday morning!
• TUNE-IN: Following Tuesday’s Today show, look for Kenny all over the small screen, with performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (9/24), The Ellen DeGeneres Show (9/26), CONAN (9/29), and The Talk (10/2), as well as interviews with both Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood (9/23).
• The Big Revival is also available as a cool Walmart-exclusive ZinePak, with the CD paired with a 64-page magazine spotlighting the album tracks, as well as Kenny’s No Shoes Nation, No Shoes Radio, and Spread the Love Fund, together with a pair of essays written by Kenny. Available at Walmart and Walmart.com, you can find it online here.
• Look for Kenny on the cover of the September 29th issue of Country Weekly, on sale now!
• Kenny and The Big Revival were in the spotlight over the weekend in this feature from Nashville’s The Tennessean.
• Taking time off the road allowed Kenny to feed his creative juices in some relaxing ways outside the studio, as he shares in this video on Yahoo.
• Kenny says that his new album is rich with the kind of songs that will be great in concert. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)
• Co-produced by Kenny with longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon, The Big Revival features guest appearances by Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, and Grace Potter.
• Featuring Kenny’s number-one smash, “American Kids,” and his new single, “Til It’s Gone,” The Big Revival is available everywhere you find great music, including here, on iTunes.

  Kenny Chesney found an abundance of positive energy flowing into his new album, The Big Revival. (:34)
“There was a lot of energy, a lot of positive energy, that went into makin’ this record. I mean, it really did. And it was possible because I wasn’t balancing a lot of things I was balancing when I’m used to makin’ a record. I mean, takin’ a year off the road this summer was not just the smartest thing I’ve ever done, creatively, but the most necessary thing I think I’ve ever done because it was really important for me, at this point in my life, and this point in my career as a — and as a human being — to make a record that sounded fresh.”

  Kenny Chesney talks about the creative process behind his album, The Big Revival. (:59)
“The creative process for this record was insanely important; important enough not to tour. And I knew that; last year on stage, I knew it. And I remember setting down in Philadelphia with my managers and telling them that I was not gonna tour in 2014, and this is why. Because there’s a big poster down the hall of Waylon Jennings with a quote talkin’ about music matters, and you should care, ’cause if you don’t care, they’re not gonna care — and that’s true. And that was my thought process goin’ into makin’ this record and why I think the creative process for this record was so enjoyable, frustrating…everything. I mean, it was everything that you can think of, but it was satisfying because I was able to do something that was really hard for me to do, and that’s be still. And I was able to create, and I was able to really listen, and not listen tired. I was really listening with a clear head, and that was good for me — really good for me.”

  Kenny Chesney says that the songs on The Big Revival fit together into a very satisfying whole. (:36)
“The process of makin’ this record, and the end result, was very satisfying. Now, in the middle, there was a lot of…‘cause I knew how important this record was, and I knew what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it, and in my heart of hearts I knew how I wanted it to sound, but I knew that was gonna take time. And I knew that it was just really necessary is the word, if I wanted to continue to grow what we built instead of erode it. And I want to grow it. And I think that the songs that we selected, the songs I wrote, fit together as part of an album as good or better than any that we’ve done.”

  Kenny Chesney knew that he wanted to follow a different musical path in creating The Big Revival. (:38)
“It was really important for me to not repeat myself. I mean, I couldn’t go out there and record ‘No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems’ again and ‘Big Star.’ Couldn’t do it. I didn’t wanna. But then again, I didn’t want to follow a trend either. And so you have those parameters, and you go, ‘Okay, well, here’s your target; you gotta go hit it. Okay. Great.’ So, you’re editing yourself from day one, but that was the parameters, and I was not gonna waver from it. And that meant changin’ a few things creatively, and it meant that the process was a little longer, a little more frustrating, but twice as rewarding. And I learned a lot from it.”

  Kenny Chesney is proud of the time that he took in the making of his new album, The Big Revival. (:37)
“People do care about the music, and they care about how those songs make them feel, and they want to be talked to. I still believe that we’re in a genre where people care about songs, and they want you to talk to ’em and remind ’em of their life. That’s why I was…I’m proud of the time we took to make this record, but sonically, I think it’s different. I think it sounds fresh, and I think that the songs that we recorded really hit that target that I was tryin’ to hit when I took the time off the road and started this creative process, because I think that we’re gonna be able to take my audience by the hand and just bring ’em along with us to maybe a place that we haven’t been. And that’s exciting.”

  Kenny Chesney sees The Big Revival as an album that will be a big source of material for his live shows. (:15)
“I will probably do more songs off The Big Revival in concert than any album I’ve done since The Road and the Radio. And that’s sayin’ a lot, ’cause I do a lot of — still a lot of — songs from The Road and the Radio – just because of the raw, natural energy that it’s gonna bring to our stage.”