Kenny Chesney’s career eighth performance at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field over the weekend broke his own record for a single night country music show, selling 55,131 tickets to his The Big Revival 2015 tour.
Kenny said, “It’s funny, when you go back to markets in this size venue tour after tour, you wonder if people are ever going to get tired of the big show, the long day – and listening to the crowd last night, they were as alive, as loud, as crazy about the music as they were in 2006 (the first time he played there). . . When they cheered, when they sang along, we could hear them onstage over all that instruments – and that’s saying something! Because, honestly, when a crowd’s feeling it, you can’t deny it, and when they’re not, that’s pretty obvious, too.”
Kenny played for nearly two hours, welcoming Eric Church for an acoustic version of “When I See This Bar,” followed by “Livin’ In Fast Forward.”
Kenny’s new single, “Save It for a Rainy Day,” hit home with his fans at the concert as much as it did the singer. While he didn’t write it — Andrew Dorff and two members of new hit group,Old Dominion, Matthew Ramsey and Brad Tursi actually penned the song — Kenny tells us that he can totally relate to the idea of needing to let go of your troubles, if only for a little while. 
“‘Save It for a Rainy Day’ — I felt like that the message of the song was very important, because I have been the person in this song now . . . a lot. And I think that if you set in negativity too long, or whatever’s bothering you or whatever’s kind of weighing down your life — whether it’s, you know, all the anxiety and the stress, you know — I think if you set in all that too long, you can become it. It can become your life — and that’s not good (laughs), you know?”
“Save It for a Rainy Day” follows three Number One hits from Kenny’s current album, The Big Revival.
(The Pulse of Radio)
