As Jake Owen has been selling-out shows night after night headlining CMT on Tour, he says that while concerts can be great fun for both performers and fans, it’s serious business that takes a team effort to work well — and for Jake, touring with Kenny Chesney was a great example. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Be sure to tune-in to see Jake perform his his latest smash — and third consecutive number-one hit! — “The One That Got Away,” when Jake appears on Monday night’s American Country Awards. You can also root for Jake, who’s up for four ACA awards, when this year’s show airs this Monday, December 10th, at 8pm, ET, on FOX.
• And if you’re Christmas shopping for music, the country fan in your life would love a CD with three number-one hits, and you’ve got an easy purchase with Jake’s Barefoot Blue Jean Night album, which features the smash title track, as well as “Alone with You” and “The One That Got Away.”

  Jake Owen talks about the business side of being a touring performer. (:56)
“It’s a business, and in order to have a successful business, it all starts from the top. Kenny Chesney, I mean, he is a musician, he’s an artist — he is also a great businessman. And in order to keep great employees, you have to know how to treat your employees, and Kenny doesn’t I don’t think makes anyone feel like his employees are employees. He makes ’em feel like they’re friends, but yet he has a great way of being a boss, you know, and no one just gets up and goes to work to intentionally make their boss’s day worse. Everybody in my crew — and I know everywhere else out there on the road — people wake up every day with the same goal in mind: Let’s get out here, let’s do the job, let’s make the people happy, and go forth from there. So, a lot of people think that touring is just a backstage party they can’t wait to get passes to, but it’s a business, and in order to have a successful business, you have to be smart and diligent about the way you run that.”