Lucky Old Sun

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Lucky Old Sun
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ReleasedOctober 14, 2008 (2008-10-14)
Recorded2007–08
StudioEmerald Studio A, Masterfonics, Sound Emporium, East Iris Studios. Additional Recording at The Tracking Room, Catacomb Studio, Working Class Industry, The Tone Dock, Westwood Sound Studios, Starstruck Studios and Love Shack Studios. The Wailers recorded at A Time and Place Bar in Jamaica
Genre Country
Length43:28
Label Blue Chair, BNA
Producer Buddy Cannon
Kenny Chesney
Kenny Chesney chronology
Super Hits
(2008)
Lucky Old Sun
(2008)
Greatest Hits II
(2009)
Singles from Lucky Old Sun
  1. "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven"
    Released: August 11, 2008
  2. "Down the Road"
    Released: November 10, 2008
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 60/100 [1]
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
BBC Music mixed [4]
Billboard favorable [5]
The Boston Globe positive [6]
Entertainment Weekly B [7]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The New York Times (positive) [9]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Slant Star full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]

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.

Contents

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

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 Martin 5:52
3."Boats"Chesney, Dillon, Scotty Emerick 4:36
4."Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (featuring The Wailers) Jim Collins, Marty Dodson 4:13
5."Down the Road" (duet with Mac McAnally) Mac McAnally 3:01
6."Spirit of a Storm"Chesney, Brett James 3:36
7."Ten with a Two"Jack Mack, Bill Nosworthy, Bo Roberts, Mack Vickery 3:11
8."The Life"Beathard, James T. Slater 4:27
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 Gillespie 4:15
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 [14]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [29] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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