Looking back on the creation of his new album, Lucky Old Sun, Kenny Chesney recalls finding inspiration for the album in the song that also inspired the title…and the peacefulness of the song was something that Kenny found particularly soothing. Recorded with Willie Nelson, “That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day),” became almost constant listening for Kenny as he would commute home between tour dates. “There was just something about this song that put my mind that was spinning in a hundred different directions to rest,” Kenny tells us, “and it is where, in a lot of ways, this whole album was born.” (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Don’t forget…the deluxe, 15-song version of Kenny’s album — available now — is loaded with bonus content, including four live songs, the music video for “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” and the concert-opening video from Kenny’s Poets & Pirates tour! Also, two lucky winners will find Golden Tickets in their deluxe packages, entitling each winner and a guest to a trip and front-row tickets to opening night on Kenny’s 2009 tour…and a chance to meet Kenny!
• However…you can still stick to the very cool music basics with an 11-song version of Lucky Old Sun — minus all the deluxe content — in stores this Tuesday, October 21st!
• Whatever version you get, you’ll find Kenny’s smash, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” now the number-one country single for the second week in a row!

  Kenny Chesney says that the title track to his new record, Lucky Old Sun, is really the essence of the whole album. (:33)
“I had a rough mix of this song in my car, and I would fly home after a lot of shows at night, and I’d get home about two o’clock in the morning, and I had about a 30-minute drive to the house. And there have been well over 200 nights that I would get in my car and listen to ‘Lucky Old Sun’ all the way home. There was just something about this song that put my mind that was spinning in a hundred different directions to rest, and it is where, in a lot of ways, this whole album was born with ‘Lucky Old Sun.’ You know, it was kind of the anchor of this record.”