Kenny Chesney Launches No Shoes Radio on SiriusXM Exclusively

SiriusXM announced today that Kenny Chesney, country music superstar and the man The Wall Street Journal called “The King of the Road,” will bring his No Shoes Radio channel exclusively to SiriusXM.

No Shoes Radio, Kenny Chesney’s exclusive SiriusXM channel, curated by Chesney himself, will feature music from Chesney, from his favorite artists across multiple styles of music, rare live performances and special coverage of backstage happenings at Chesney’s concerts.

To celebrate the SiriusXM launch of No Shoes Radio, Kenny Chesney will perform a special, private concert for SiriusXM at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ on May 12. The concert will air live and exclusively on Chesney’s No Shoes Radio.

“We’ve spent eight years building No Shoes Radio,” says the 8-time Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year. “It’s always been a place where I could share songs I love, musicians I find, things on my computer nobody’s ever heard – and blur the lines between my records and everything from reggae to rock to bluegrass. To partner with SiriusXM as part of their Artist Driven platform of stations means No Shoes Radio will be able to reach even more people who love songs and music the same way I do. That’s awesome.”

“We are so excited to work with Kenny on his No Shoes Radio, now exclusively on SiriusXM. His massive fan base will love having unprecedented access to Kenny’s favorite music and a variety of things only he has access to. We are also thrilled to be expanding SiriusXM’s unmatched offering of country music to our nation of listeners,” said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SiriusXM.

Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Radio will debut on SiriusXM, Tuesday, April 12 at 6:00 pm ET on channel 62 and through the SiriusXM App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as at www.siriusxm.com/streaming.

Subscribers will have the opportunity to win tickets Chesney’s private concert for SiriusXM at the Stone Pony on May 12 through an invitation sent by e-mail as well as various call-in promotions. Beginning March 31, SiriusXM subscribers since March 7 can also enter for the chance to win a trip to New Jersey and tickets to the concert. One grand prize winner will receive a trip for two including round-trip airfare, two nights’ hotel stay, a pair of tickets to the exclusive concert and the opportunity to meet Kenny Chesney. See Official Rules for complete details which will be at www.siriusxm.com/KennyChesneySweeps.

Kenny Chesney’s No Shoes Radio is consistent with SiriusXM channels created with iconic and prominent artists, including Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Radio, Jimmy Buffett’s Radio Margaritaville, Willie Nelson’s Willie’s Roadhouse, The Pink Floyd Channel, B.B. King’s Bluesville, Elvis Radio, Siriusly Sinatra, Ozzy Osbourne’s Ozzy’s Boneyard, Pearl Jam Radio, Eminem’s Shade 45, Tiësto’s Club Life Radio, Neil Diamond Radio and Tom Petty Radio.

For more information, please visit www.siriusxm.com/noshoesradio.

Eric Paslay Reveals Details on Forthcoming Sophomore Album DRESSED IN BLACK

ACM nominee Eric Paslay will release his sophomore album DRESSED IN BLACK this summer. Eric co-wrote all 12 of the album’s tracks including the first single “High Class,” which debuted as the No. 1 most added song at Country radio.

DRESSED IN BLACK, produced by Marshall Altman, is the follow-up to Eric’s critically acclaimed debut self-titled album that produced three hits – No.1 Platinum-selling “Friday Night,” Gold certified “Song About A Girl” and ACM nominated “She Don’t Love You.”

On the making of DRESSED IN BLACK Eric shares, “I’m grateful that we are getting to celebrate some life in another album. I always strive for, as an artist and musician, something that lasts. Not just popular now. It’s not just something on a page, but it somehow finds you in a restaurant, or on a dance floor, or in your car alone that makes you go, ‘What is that?’”

Dressed in Black Track List:
1. “Angels In This Town” (Eric Paslay, Corey Crowder, Erik Dylan)
2. “All Or Nothin’” (Eric Paslay, Skip Black, Matt Nolen)
3. “Takin’ My Heartbeat Higher” (Eric Paslay, Sarah Buxton, Zach Crowell)
4. “High Class” (Eric Paslay, Corey Crowder, Jesse Frasure)
5. “Dressed In Black” (Eric Paslay, Ross Copperman, Jaren Johnston)
6. “Let You In My Heart” (Eric Paslay, Dylan Altman)
7. “Pretty Girl Fly” (Eric Paslay, Ross Copperman, Jon Nite)
8. “Backstage Pass” (Eric Paslay, Jessi Alexander, Liz Rose)
9. “Fall Apart” (Eric Paslay, Natalie Hemby)
10. “Water Into Wine” (Eric Paslay, Tom Shapiro, Neil Thrasher)
11. “Sun” (Eric Paslay, Nathan Chapman)
12. “Wild And Young” (Eric Paslay, Chris Wallin)

Eric was recently tapped as a special guest on the “Toby Keith Interstates & Tailgates Tour Presented by Ford F-Series” beginning July 8 in Virginia Beach, Virginia at the Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater and continuing through September 24.

Later this week Eric heads to Las Vegas where his “She Don’t Love You” is nominated as “Song of The Year” at the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 3.

For the latest information on Eric go to: www.ericpaslay.com.

Kenny Chesney Has HUGE Release Week At Country Radio with “Noise”

Having built a career on knowing the moment and trusting his gut, Kenny Chesney derailed a pretty involved single set-up when he suddenly found himself midway through writing a song about the impact of sonic overload on our society. Begun on his way to a marketing meeting to review set up plans for his new music, something about “Noise” struck Chesney as too immediate to wait.

“Sometimes as a writer, you sense the urgency of what you’re saying,” he says. “I knew how many hours of work had gone into setting up the album and the single. I also felt in my gut ‘Noise’ was a song people were hungry to hear someone say.”

Chesney’s lucky his gut didn’t knock him over. Hitting Billboard’s Country Singles Chart at No. 21 bullet and MediaBase’s at No. 28 bullet, “Noise” brought in a whopping 146 adds in its first week; even more than the 111 stations “American Kids” had and the 127 stations Hemingway Whiskey’s “Live A Little” scored.

“I’ve always tried to make music that says something I think the fans want to hear,” Chesney says. “When you have a great song that speaks to the heart of how people are living, you’ve got something. I try to not repeat myself, or what other folks are doing.

“We had a really smart, really interesting single musically and topically,” continues the man The Los Angeles Times proclaimed “The People’s Superstar.” “But when ‘Noise’ rolled out and Shane and I were almost done before we got off the phone, I knew it was special, and real, and everything people are contending with. This response tells me my instinct was right.”

With a rapid rhythm that swells, then almost bursts, “Noise” mirrors the nervous energy created by too many simultaneous stimuli. Opening with “Wrecking balls, downtown construction/ Bottles breaking, juke box buzzing/ Cardboard sign says the Lord is coming/ Tick Tick Tock…” the single catalogues the chaos and auditory shrapnel of daily living as phased guitars and crashing drums topple around him.

The Chesney/McAnally/Ross Copperman/Jon Nite song works a staccato series of notes, a run of images and culminates in the realization “We didn’t turn it on, but can’t turn it off…”

“It comes down, really, to the chorus,” Chesney says, “When it starts, ‘We scream, we shout til we don’t have a voice/ In the streets, in the crowds, it ain’t nothing but noise… drowning out all the dreams of this Tennessee boy/ Just trying to be heard… in all this noise,’ that says it all about the impact of 24-hour news, click bait and being addicted to having to know.”

Fifteen stations are already committed to next week’s add date, and “Noise” is just getting started. With the Spread the Love Tour kicking off April 23 in Auburn and an album due early this summer, the man whose Big Revival spawned four consecutive No. 1s is set to hit a new mark with his music.

Presenters and MORE Performers Announced for 51st ACM Awards

The Academy of Country Music® and dick clark productions revealed additional performers and presenters for Country Music’s Party of the Year®! Multi-ACM Award winning artists Charles Kelley, Blake Shelton and Little Big Town, plus this year’s New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year winners Old Dominion have been added to the stellar line-up of live performances for the 51st ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS™.

It was also announced Miss America Betty Cantrell, Chris Janson, Jana Kramer, Martina McBride, Kip Moore, Kacey Musgraves, Nancy O’Dell, Jake Owen, Chase Rice, Kiefer Sutherland and Cole Swindell have been added as presenters for the ceremony.

The 51st Academy Of Country Music Awards, co-hosted by Luke Bryan and Dierks Bentley, is produced for television by dick clark productions and will be broadcast live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Sunday, April 3 at 8:00PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

Previously announced performers include Jason Aldean, Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan, Cam, Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Brett Eldredge, Sam Hunt, Tim McGraw, Dolly Parton with Katy Perry, Thomas Rhett, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Chris Young with Cassadee Pope, and Florida Georgia Line.

Chris Young and Cassadee Pope Perform “Live at 35” on Southwest Airlines

RCA Records Nashville Recording Artist, Chris Young, along with Republic Nashville Recording Artist, Cassadee Pope, joined Southwest Airlines® recently to celebrate 30 years of service in Music City.

The pair, who have been on the road for Young’s sold-out I’m Comin’ Over Tour, entertained guests onboard the airline’s new Tennessee One state plane during a surprise Live at 35® acoustic inflight performance, including their Top 10 and climbing smash duet, “Think of You.” The video of Young and Pope’s Live at 35 performance is now live via VEVO.

In addition to catching the behind the scenes and performance clip, fans can enter-to-win an exclusive flyaway sweepstakes trip package via Southwest Airlines!  One lucky fan and a guest will win round-trip tickets, two nights hotel, as well as tickets to see the show and meet Chris Young on April 9 in Tampa, FL. Visit the Southwest Airlines Facebook page for full Sweepstakes details.