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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(60/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[2]
Allmusic[3]
BBC Music(mixed)[4]
Billboard(favorable)[5]
The Boston Globe(positive)[6]
Entertainment WeeklyB[7]
Los Angeles Times[8]
The New York Times(positive)[9]
PopMatters[10]
Slant[11]

Lucky Old Sun is the twelfth studio album by country music artist Kenny Chesney, 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 also 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 pop 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.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'm Alive" (duet with Dave Matthews)Kenny Chesney, Dean Dillon, Mark Tamburino3:19
2."Way Down Here"Chesney, Casey Beathard, Tony Martin5:52
3."Boats"Chesney, Dillon, Scotty Emerick4:36
4."Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (featuring The Wailers)Jim Collins, Marty Dodson4:13
5."Down the Road" (duet with Mac McAnally)Mac McAnally2:58
6."Spirit of a Storm"Chesney, Brett James3:36
7."Ten with a Two"Jack Mack, Bill Nosworthy, Bo Roberts, Mack Vickery3:11
8."The Life"Beathard, James T. Slater4:27
9."Key's in the Conch Shell"Aaron Barker, Dillon, Emerick, Tom Gross4:11
10."Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be"Chesney3:41
11."That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)" (duet with Willie Nelson)Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie4:15
Total length:43:28
Deluxe Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Boston" (live)Chesney, Tamburino5:22
13."Got a Little Crazy" (live)Chesney, Chris Wallin4:58
14."Soul of a Sailor" (live)Chesney, Dillon, Emerick5:40
15."Guitars and Tiki Bars" (live)Chesney, Dillon, Tamburino4:11

Personnel

As listed in liner notes[12]

Chart performance

Album

Lucky Old Sun debuted at the top of the U.S. Billboard 200. It was also his fifth consecutive album to top the U.S. Top Country Albums chart. On July 2009 the album sold 720,000 copies in USA.

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian Albums Charts[13] 108
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 1
U.S. Billboard 200 1
Canadian Albums Chart 10

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold)
US Country US CAN
2008 "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"
(featuring The Wailers) 		1 41 49 * US: Gold[14]
"Down the Road" (featuring Mac McAnally) 1 47 57

Certifications

Region Certification
United States (RIAA)[15] Gold

References

  1. ^ "Critic Reviews for Lucky Old Sun". Metacritic. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  2. ^ Sexton, Scott. "Kenny Chesney - 'Lucky Old Sun'". About.com. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  3. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2008-10-21). "Lucky Old Sun - Kenny Chesney". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-08-21.
  4. ^ Quinn, Michael (2008-11-12). "Review of Kenny Chesney - Lucky Old Sun". BBC Music. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  5. ^ Tucker, Ken. "Lucky Old Sun". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2013-04-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Reed, James (2008-10-27). "Kenny Chesney (Lucky Old Sun)". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2013-04-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Chris Willman (2008-10-24). "Lucky Old Sun Review | Music Reviews and News". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2011-09-19. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ Randy Lewis (2008-10-15). "Chesney starts the healing". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2013-04-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ Jon Pareles (2008-10-19). "New CDs (Kenny Chesney: "Lucky Old Sun")". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-04-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. ^ Dave Heaton (2008-11-06). "Kenny Chesney: Lucky Old Sun". PopMatters. Retrieved 2013-04-10.
  11. ^ Jonathan Keefe (2008-10-26). "Kenny Chesney: Lucky Old Sun | Music Review". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2012-08-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. ^ Lucky Old Sun (Media notes). Kenny Chesney. Blue Chair/BNA Records. 2008. 88697-36726-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  13. ^ "Pandora Archive" (PDF). Pandora.nla.gov.au. 2006-08-23. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
  14. ^ "American single certifications – Kenny Chesney – Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven". Recording Industry Association of America.
  15. ^ "American album certifications – Kenny Chesney – Lucky Old Sun". Recording Industry Association of America.
Preceded by U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album
November 1, 2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Top Country Albums number-one album
November 1, 2008 – November 8, 2008 		Succeeded by
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