Kenny Chesney performs during the rehearsals for the 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 14, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
June 4, 2007 — Kenny Chesney has decided to title his next album Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, and he says it is his most reflective project yet.
"I tried on so many titles, but in the end, it was the simplest name that fit this record the best," Kenny says. "At the end of the day, you strip it all off, and that's what it comes down to: great songs that are about the smallest things and people who are living just beyond the rules."
Kenny says being a pirate isn't just about wearing an eye patch and sailing the seas. "A lot of my friends in the islands, they're living the pirate life and you could say that anyone living on the road, always waking up somewhere else, they're living the pirate life, too," he says. "But I think a lot of my fans, they're really the pirates. You know, they show up at the office, but their souls never leave the ocean or the lake or wherever they get away to. Their spirit is free, even though they look like one more 9-to-5'er or shift worker."
Kenny is still picking tracks for the CD, but he does know the first single will be "Never Wanted Nothing More," a song about the stages of coming of age. "It really is how life is lived, what we want and the way nothing else feels like the moment you finally get it," he says. "This song isn't maybe what people are expecting, but then the best things never are."
Kenny has been working on the new album, which will contain his first new music in two years, between dates on his Flip Flop Summer Tour. No word yet on when the album will be released.
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