Photo:Kenny Chesney throws out a ceremonial first pitch before the MLB baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston July 25, 2008.

Kenny Chesney Goes To Heaven: By Way of Stadiums, Fans, Fun + New Music

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Nashville: Everybody knows Kenny Chesney is the hardest working man in show business. Midway through his wildly successful Poets & Pirates 2008 Tour, though, any doubts should be allayed by the arrival of "Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven," a brand new song. The Sunday August 10th release date may be unusual, but it follows the song's thematics.
"I think, you know, everything in that song is everything we all think," Chesney admits with a laugh. "I don't know anyone who doesn't want to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go today. If you could pick, you wouldn't pick right now... you'd want to live, to do more things, to have more fun...
"And that's sort of the point of the song, too. It's one of those songs that says I'm not only not ready, I've got a little but more fun to have. It's certainly the way me and the people around me try to live, to pack as much as we can into every day... and it's the way I think our fans are living. You can tell when you get out in the parking lot, these are people who have come to have fun, to make a few memories with their friends... and I think that's a great way to live."

Obviously, Chesney gets the most out of life. In addition to his own platinum-plus Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, Chesney and co-producer Buddy Cannon helmed Willie Nelson's critically-acclaimed Moment of Forever and band member Tim Hensley's acoustic-bluegrass Long Monday - and he's been writing songs on the road, in the islands, on the shores of Mexico.

"Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven" is a taste of what's to come. Having been in the recording studio with his usual crack session players, friends, band mates and myriad special guests, Chesney is putting final touches on an album he's calling "more personal than anything I've done yet." Given the lead single's feel, it's quite possible the upcoming album will again have more of an ocean-grounding.