One thing about Kenny Chesney is that fans always know they can expect some cool songs, but Kenny says that giving fans what they don’t expect can be part of the fun of making music. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Kenny’s among the stars already announced to perform on the upcoming 46th Annual CMA Awards, where he’s a triple-nominee, up for the night’s top prize, Entertainer of the Year, as well as Music Video of the Year (for “Come Over”), and Musical Event of the Year (for “Feel Like a Rock Star” with Tim McGraw). Catch this year’s CMA telecast, hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, when the big show airs live from Nashville, November 1st, at 8pm, ET, on ABC.
• Kenny’s newest single is the beautiful “El Cerrito Place,” from his album, Welcome to the Fishbowl.
• In addition to the CMAs, Kenny is also one of the big nominees for the upcoming, fan-voted American Country Awards, where he’s up for Artist of the Year: Male and Single of the Year: Male (for “Reality”), as well as nods with Tim McGraw for Single of the Year: Vocal Collaboration (for “Feel Like a Rock Star”) and Touring Artist of the Year for Kenny and Tim’s blockbuster ‘Brothers of the Sun’ Tour. Voting is taking place right now, and you can vote once a day for all the categories, online at TheACAs.com. The American Country Awards is set to air December 10th, on FOX.

  Kenny Chesney likes to surprise listeners sometimes. (:16)
“It is fun to take an idea and to wrap an emotion around it and to take a listener in a little different direction than they thought they were gonna go on before they’d listened to the song just based on the title.”