Lucky Old Sun

Lucky Old Sun is the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released on October 14, 2008 as the first release for Blue Chair Records, Chesney's personal division of the BNA Records record label. The album produced two singles in "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" and "Down the Road", which were both number ones on the country charts. Chesney's versions of those two songs are duets with The Wailers and Mac McAnally respectively. This was Kenny's first album since 1997's I Will Stand to not have a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Content

The lead-off single, "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven", was released on August 11, 2008. In October, this song became a Number One hit on the Billboard country charts. The next single, "Down the Road", is a duet with Mac McAnally. MacAnally had previously released this a single for himself from his 1990 album Simple Life. This rendition has also reached Number One.

Two of this album's songs were previously recorded by Willie Nelson: "Ten with a Two" was previously a single in 1990 from his album Born for Trouble and "I'm Alive" was recorded on his album Moment of Forever. "That Lucky Old Sun", recorded as a duet with Nelson, is a cover of the 1949 pop standard made famous by Frankie Laine. Chesney's version of "I'm Alive", a duet with Dave Matthews, also appears on his 2009 compilation album Greatest Hits II, from which it was released as its second single in August 2009.

Commercial performance

Lucky Old Sun debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 selling 176,000 copies in its first week.^[12] It was also his fifth consecutive album to top the US Top Country Albums chart. As of July 2009, the album sold 720,000 copies in United States. On February 13, 2017, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of a million copies in the United States.^[13]

Track listing

Personnel

As listed in liner notes^[14]

Wyatt Beard – background vocals
Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
Buddy Cannon – background vocals
Kenny Chesney – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Eric Darken – percussion
Scott Ducaj – trumpet
Chris Dunn – trombone
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
Robert Greenidge – steel drums
Tim Hensley – background vocals
Steve Herrman – trumpet
Steve Hinson – steel guitar
John Hobbs – piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer
Jim Horn – tenor saxophone
Paul Leim – drums
B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar
Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar and duet vocals on "Down the Road"
Randy McCormick – B3 organ, synthesizer
Dave Matthews – vocals on "I'm Alive"
Willie Nelson – vocals on "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)"
Larry Paxton – bass guitar, gut string guitar
Mickey Raphael – harmonica
Gary Prim – piano, synthesizer, Wurlitzer
The Wailers – vocals on "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"
John Willis – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut string guitar
Lonnie Wilson – drums

Charts

Certifications

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