For Kenny Chesney — the reigning Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year — music has always been the current that's run through his life, happy and sad. With The Road And The Radio, the singer/songwriter from Luttrell, Tennessee raises the stakes on both the intensity of his straight-up-the-middle power-country and deepening sense of introspection.

Certainly his self-penned Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair — which debuted at #1 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 with no single and no tour, scanning platinum in just a few weeks — showed him the fans who helped him sell over a million tickets for his revved-up concerts each of the past three summers found a lot that reflected their own lives and soul searches in Chesney's own truth.