NEWS: MAY 2008

Music Row Awards Nominee's Announced!

Posted: May 11, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

The nominee's for the 20th Annual Music Row Awards have been announced! Kenny Chesney's #1 hit "Don't Blink" is up for the Song of the Year category and Buddy Cannon, who produces Kenny Chesney's music, is up for the Producer of the Year category!

Congratulations to both Kenny and Buddy Cannon for getting nominated! You deserve the nominations and we hope to see you win the awards!

To see the complete article and the rest of the nominees, then go here!

New Layout

Posted: May 10, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

Hey everybody! As you can see I finally got a new layout up for the site! Also, I've added a couple new affiliates. I would suggest checking them out! Oh, and please remember to keep voting for Entertainer of the Year and spread the word to all your friends so they can vote. If you haven't already noticed, I've added something on the sidebar. It's a banner so you can enter a trip for 2 to go to San Diego with Kenny! One more thing, below is a list of things I plan to have done during the next couple of months::

-Photo Gallery
-More lyrics for Lyrics Archive
-New Layout for News Archive
-Chart Positions
-More websites for the Street Team
-Interactive Games

Of course there is going to be a lot more, but those are just some of the main things that will be added to the site! I hope you guys enjoy the new layout! -Eric

Lack of Updates

Posted: May 7, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

Hey everybody! I am so sorry for the lack of updates! I have been so busy! Between school, studying, working on my new website, I haven't had the time to update anything on here. With this being the last month of school, I won't have that much free time because I have to study, but after this month, Kenny Source will be back and MUCH better! I am planning on having a new layout, more content, concert information, etc. Just wait! :D

Also, just a reminder, keep voting for Kenny for Entertainer of the Year!

Kenny Chesney Back in Action

Posted: May 7, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

Kenny Chesney was put to the test this past weekend as he hit the road for three dates in the wake of an injury in South Carolina.

Kenny’s right foot was caught between the stage and a hydraulic lift at a show 10 days ago in Columbia, and the initial prognosis was that he’d broken at least some toes. As it turned out, nothing was fractured, though he suffered a massive hematoma. Thanks in part to some painkillers, he ventured into Texas and Oklahoma for the first trio of post-accident shows, where he was loudly welcomed.

When Kenny appeared in Frisco, Texas, north of Dallas, local station KSCS showed up with a six-foot-tall foot cast which was signed by several thousand fans. In reality, Kenny didn’t need a cast: AllAboutCountry.com reports that he played "without even the slightest hint of the previous weekend’s injury." A reviewer with The Fort Worth Star-Telegram agreed, saying Kenny "took the stage with the energy of a Jazzercise instructor, bouncing from one side to the other."

Meanwhile, Kenny’s filled in another date on his summer schedule. He’s now set to play Aug. 6 in Sturgis, S.D., during the 68th annual Sturgis Bike Week. The show has the potential to be one of the biggest in his career: The Glencoe Amphitheater holds 110,000 people.

Kenny to Rock with the Bikers

Posted: May 7, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

Country Music artist Kenny Chesney has performed at all kinds of events, but this one is truly one of a kind.

Kenny will be the headliner at this year’s Sturgis Bike Week in Sturgis, South Dakota, as part of Glencoe Nation’s Rock’N The Rally. Sturgis is the home of the world’s biggest motorcycle rally, bringing in over half a million visitors every year.

Sturgis Bike Week runs from August 1-7. Kenny will headline the final show on Aug. 6. Tickets for the show may be purchased at www.startickets.com. For more information, go to www.rockntherally.com.

CMT Insider Interview: Kenny Chesney Talks About His Injury

Posted: May 7, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

"My foot looked like it had a baseball on it," Kenny Chesney said Thursday (May 1) during an interview with CMT Insider host Katie Cook. "But it's better now. It's getting better. It's black and blue."

Chesney was referring to the injury he sustained last weekend as he made his entrance to close a daylong concert at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C. It wasn't the first time he had used a hydraulic lift to be elevated to the stage, but he knew he was in major trouble when he couldn't move his foot because his boot was caught between the lift and the stage. With the loud music and the deafening roar of almost 45,000 fans, members of the stage crew beneath the stage could not hear him pounding for them to move the lift. His foot remained trapped for almost 40 seconds before being freed.

"There was really no place for the lift to go, the stage to go and my foot to go," Chesney said during the interview prior to Thursday's show in Austin, Texas. "It was just caught right in the middle."

The South Carolina concert, the first stadium date of his 2008 Poets & Pirates tour, featured Brooks & Dunn, LeAnn Rimes, Gary Allan and Luke Bryan. For Chesney, it was business as usual until the moment he arrive onstage. His doctors in Nashville said his toes sustained the brunt of the damage, but no bones were broken. They describe the injury as a hematoma from the ankle down.

"I was in shock because I knew that I was hurt," he said of his recollections of the concert. "I knew I was stuck. Then I realized I was doing this in front of 45,000 people. It was the first song, and they had been out there all day anticipating this moment -- and so was I -- and this was what was happening."

It took Chesney three or four songs to recover from the initial shock, but he grasped the potential severity of the situation throughout almost two hours onstage.

"The longer I was out there, the more I felt my foot just swell," he said. "I was pretty scared. I didn't really know how bad it was hurt." Although he thought about stopping the show, he said, "After about an hour, my foot was so numb that it didn't matter."

He's emphasized to his entire production crew that they were not in any way responsible for the accident.

"It was my fault," he admitted. "I just had my foot too far over."

Chesney continues his tour with a Friday night (May 2) performance in Oklahoma City. His next stadium show takes place Saturday at Pizza Hut Park in Dallas with Rimes and Brooks & Dunn.

CMT Partners With People for TV Special

Posted: May 5, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

CMT has partnered with People magazine for a TV special to coincide with the magazine's upcoming country music issue. Hosted by CMT Insider's Allison DeMarcus, People Country Special on CMT will feature exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage of photo shoots and interviews with several country music stars including Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Jack Ingram, Luke Bryan and Clint and Lisa Hartman Black. Also featured are LeAnn Rimes, Taylor Swift, Snoop Dogg, Bobby Brown, Jewel, Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus during a photo shoot backstage at the recent CMT Music Awards show. People Country Special on CMT premieres May 17.

Kenny Chesney Performing During Sturgis Bike Week

Posted: May 5, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

Kenny Chesney will perform Aug. 6 in Sturgis, S.D., as one of the headliners during Sturgis Bike Week, one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the world. Chesney will appear at the Glencoe Nation campground and amphitheater during a series of concerts billed as Rock'N the Rally. Sturgis Bike Week, now in its 68th year, takes place Aug. 1-7. Others performing in the area during the week include Sugarland, Dierks Bentley, Shoooter Jennings, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Alice Cooper and Puddle of Mudd.

Vote for Entertainer of the Year

Posted: May 1, 2008 || By: Eric || Source

It is up to you, the fans, to choose who wins Entertainer of the Year this year and we all know that after this past year, Kenny is the one who deserves to get this award. So, please vote for him for Entertainer of the Year this year. It will help Kenny a lot because if he wins this, he will have won this award 7 times!

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