Kenny Chesney certainly has an ear for a great song, and with his latest smash, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” closing in on the top of the charts, he points out that this single — the first from his upcoming Lucky Old Sun album — is pretty special. There are always two sides to a coin, and Kenny admits that even with all the great things about his life, there’s the other side, too, and this was a song that inspired him…and made him feel that others might relate to it in a similar way. Kenny recalls, “When I heard that song, I realized there was a lot for me to live for, and I was just wantin’ to try to get as much of it as I could.” (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Fans will have their first chance to pick up Kenny’s Lucky Old Sun album — in a deluxe edition with bonus songs and video content — on October 14th! Another version, minus the bonus material, will hit stores just one week later!
• Kenny-lovers have a chance right now to plug into the new music via iTunes’ “Countdown to Kenny Chesney’s Lucky Old Sun” with three weeks of digital song debuts, including “Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be” — available now — “Key’s in the Conch Shell,” out September 30th, and “Spirit of a Storm,” hitting iTunes on October 7th. And the extra-cool thing about getting in on the music early: purchasing each of these songs will count toward the cost of the full album on iTunes with the site’s “Complete My Album” feature!

  Kenny Chesney sees a lot of common ground in his latest hit, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven.” (:30)
“When I heard that song, I realized there was a lot for me to live for, and I was just wantin’ to try to get as much of it as I could, you know? I got a great life, you know, and I’ve got a unique one. It’s a double-edge sword sometimes, but you know, when I heard ‘everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to go now,’ I mean, it was just a phrase that I felt like that was very common among the people that came to see our show every summer. And the whole groove of it was, you know, like several songs on this record. I felt like it really defined what we do live.”