Kenny Chesney has a gift for writing songs that are very personal, but also very universal at times — and with his latest hit, “When I See This Bar,” Kenny was inspired by a time and a place and a group of people that played an important role in his life — and past or present, that’s a feeling that a lot of people know very well. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• “When I See This Bar” is the newest favorite from Kenny’s Life on a Rock album, which also features the first hit single, “Pirate Flag.”
• Kenny is currently headlining his No Shoes Nation Tour, with upcoming dates online on KennyChesney.com.
• Breaking News! Today, a feature in The Hollywood Reporter reveals that Kenny will be taking the year off from touring in 2014! Kenny explains that he’ll be using the time to focus on a new album, and you can check out Kenny’s quotes and the full story on The Hollywood Reporter‘s website here.

  Kenny Chesney talks about the universal feeling of his latest hit, “When I See This Bar.” (:32)
“I think that all of us have a group of friends and a time of our life and this place that we all kind of leaned on during that time. For me, it was a bar in the Virgin Islands, and I think everybody has that bar, whether you’re in college or whether you’re a group of guys that get off work and go to some honky-tonk, and you’ve been goin’ there for years. You know, but next thing you know, you’re not in those circle of friends, or…you know, life has a way of moving us along in different paths, one way or another.”