Kenny Chesney’s Road Revival
After taking last year off, Kenny Chesney has returned to the road with his Big Revival Tour. Kenny told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton, “It feels really good to be back out there again, and feel that energy again, and there’s nothing better to inspire you like new music. We’re playing a lot of arenas that we haven’t played in several years, and we’re hittin’ it again pretty hard, Lon, it just feels great. It does feel great to be out there doin’ it again.”
Did you reinvent your show for this tour? “That was one of the reasons we took a year off. That starts with new music. The one thing I didn’t want to do is do the same show I did the year before. So not going out there on stage last summer gave me the opportunity to change my show musically. The place where I am in my life right now is to go out there and play those songs and make it all about the music.
Jason Aldean has been joining Kenny for a dozen very special stadium shows this year. “To be able to merge to two tours like this for a dozen very special shows, if I was a fan, I’d want to go see that. That amount of music, all the songs, the memories mixed together in one night is pretty special. There are a lot of moving parts when you have two tours that are that big coming together as one. But Jason’s a good guy and we’ve known his team a long time, and it’s been pretty seamless. It really has. When you make it about the music and the fans, everybody benefits.
Next month, Kenny and Jason will play the historic Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Kenny says it exceeds any of his childhood dreams: “I never would have ever imagined, growing up in East Tennessee, knowing how much I loved sports, and all the years of watching the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, to be able to set up our stuff and play music in there one day is something you don’t even dream of. To be able to say you’ve done that is something I’m really looking forward to.”
The Big Revival Tour will wrap up with two nights at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro MA. Why Boston? “It’s almost like tradition now. The last three or so of tours have ended there. It’s just a fun place. You never know what you’re gonna see there.” Lon asked Kenny about the special No Shoes Nation flag that they raise there. “Robert Kraft, owner of the Patriots, made this huge banner near the Super Bowl banners that says ‘Birthplace of No Shoes Nation!’ Pretty cool. Boston’s been a great place for us to play, and we just have a special connection.”
Here are the dates for the Kenny Chesney & Jason Aldean stadium tour:
6/20/15 Green Bay, WI Lambeau Field
6/27/15 Seattle, WA CenturyLink Field
7/18/15 Minneapolis, MN Target Field
7/25/15 Pasadena, CA Rose Bowl
8/1/15 Kansas City, MO Arrowhead Stadium
8/8/15 Denver, CO Sports Authority Field at Mile High
8/15/15 E. Rutherford, NJ MetLife Stadium
8/28/15 Boston, MA Gillette Stadium
These five shows will feature Kenny Chesney & Eric Church:
Saturday, June 13 Atlanta, Ga. at The Georgia Dome
Saturday, July 11 Philadelphia, Pa. at Lincoln Financial Field
Saturday, August 22 Detroit, Mich. at Ford Field
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