Kenny Chesney says his new album 'Lucky Old Sun,' which drops Tuesday, October 14, was inspired by his split with Renée Zellweger in 2005. Photo Credit: REUTERS/File / Lucas JacksonOctober 13, 2008, (Sawf News) - Kenny Chesney says his new album Lucky Old Sun, which drops Tuesday, October 14, was inspired by his split with Renée Zellweger in 2005.
"It's the root of the record, for sure," Chesney told Newsweek. "In 2006, I was probably as emotionally and mentally exhausted as I'd ever been. And that was due to a lot of things - having the foot on the gas pedal constantly, and my breakup with Renée Zellweger. I got in a plane and went down to the Virgin Islands. I was completely by myself. I didn't want to be around anybody. So the next thing you know, it's me and a pen and I sat down and wrote a lot of lines of this song, 'Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be.'"
Kenny, who has so far been reluctant to talk about the split, explains why he has chosen to do so now.
"It's my life. I've been in a lot of states of mind in the last three years. In that way, it's a pretty honest record," Chesney said. "I've let myself be more emotionally vulnerable in some of the lyrics. I think that was good therapy."
Chesney, 40, who doesn't keep in regular touch with Renée since their separation, is not sure how she will take the album.
"I have no idea. I don't know. It's unpredictable," he said.
"1 don't want to say this whole record is about her," he adds.
Chesney married Renée in May 2005. The couple announced their intent to annul the marriage on September 15, 2005.
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