People who know their country music know David Lee Murphy as the Illinois-born and –bred songwriter who defined an era of modern country with the chart-topping “Dust On The Bottle” and 1995’s most-played song, “Party Crowd.” And people who don’t know their country quite that well still know David Lee Murphy—he’s the man who’s written Blake Shelton’s “The More I Drink,” [...]
The seventh-annual Rock The Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival, in partnership with Live Nation, announced today that 8-time Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney and multi-platinum superstar Thomas Rhett will join Jason Aldean, who was recently announced, as their 2019 headliners. Chesney, a huge champion of the festival and its work around ocean [...]
Country band Old Dominion sold out and electrified the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for their special headline show: “An Evening With Friends.” The gig raised a total of $40K for charity, with half of the proceeds benefitting the Opry Trust Fund and the other half benefitting the Ryan Seacrest Foundation. Old Dominion frontman and [...]
Part way through Kenny Chesney’s sold-out second night at Boston’s Gillette Stadium, he brought Karen Duggan, who’d purchased the millionth ticket sold for Chesney’s almost annual shows at the home of the New England Patriots, onstage and told the assembled crowd, “Karen is every single one of you. Each of you is a part of [...]
Kenny Chesney hit the stage at MetLife Stadium at 10:12 pm determined to make up for lost time. As “Beer In Mexico” surged through the speakers, the songwriter/superstar from East Tennessee strode on stage, fully in command of a band who’d come to play hard. “Sometimes that waiting really fires you up,” explained the 8-time Entertainer of [...]
Few artists love writing songs, finding songs and playing songs as much as Kenny Chesney. Over the course of 20 albums, 15 of new music, the kid from East Tennessee has created some of the 21st century’s most enduring classics. With his Trip Around the Sun Tour heading into its final weekends, all of those songs are now certified [...]
Kenny Chesney came into Nashville’s Nissan Stadium with two No. 1s in the space of three weeks – sharing David Lee Murphy’s “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” then hitting the top of the Country Singles chart for two weeks with his own “Get Along” – and the No. 1 selling debut Songs for the Saints. Anticipation was [...]
Photo Credit: Allister Ann When CMT’s Katie Cook talked of friendship, dreams and hard work, the entire third floor of ACME Feed & Seed burst into cheers. As waiters passed trays of hot chicken’n’waffles and fried green tomatoes, David Lee Murphy and Kenny Chesney were being feted for the feel-good summer anthem “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,” written by Murphy, [...]
After romping coming together in a divided world “Get Along” broke Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart record for the Most Country No. 1s by an artist, Kenny Chesney returns to country radio with the life-changing “Better Boat.” A song of grace in the face of humanity, it empowers without overpowering. “Of all the songs on Songs [...]
When Kenny Chesney released Live in No Shoes Nation, a two-disc live recording (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville), people thought he was crazy. Who buys records of concerts they’ve already been to? But Kenny Chesney, who’d been listening back to the members of No Shoes Nation shouting, singing and cheering along over the previous decade, was blown away by [...]
