Kenny Chesney is in the final days of preparation to release his new album Here And Now.

This will be Kenny’s 19th studio album. The project is set to drop this Friday, May 1st.

Kenny says that when he first began the process of planning the new album he considered how the new music would sound live.

“Within the creative process when you start to make a record, you think about yourself being up there on stage and what kind of energy you want, you know. Because whatever you leave the studio with is what you have to play up on stage. And in my brain I kept hearing a melody and this urgency and the angst of a song like ‘Here and Now’.”

The debut single and title track from the new album is doing well at country radio. “Here And Now” sits just outside the Top 10 at number 11 and climbing on both the Billboard and Mediabase/Country Aircheck singles charts this week.

Kenny can’t wait to play that song for fans live on stage when concerts can resume. He feels like the stage is the perfect place for this song.

“We all try to plan ahead or we’re all living in the past and it’s really hard to live in the moment and to live in the here and now. And in my opinion there’s no other place that happens, for me anyway, and what a beautiful place for that to happen, than on stage in front of so many people that’s living in the here and now with you.”

Listen for the song “Hear And Now” on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

Look for the album Here And Now from Kenny Chesney this Friday, May 1st everywhere.

By: Buck Stevens