Having just been signed by the New Orleans Saints for a day – and catching a practice canceling punt, played a sold out months in advance at Detroit's Ford Field, home to the NFL's Detroit Lions and gearing up for the Sept. 11 release of Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, Kenny Chesney's "Never Wanted Nothing More" – the lead single for his upcoming release – spends a 5th week at the top of Billboard’s Country Singles chart, making it the year's longest run at #1 to date.

"I guess people were ready for some new music from me after all", laughs the affable musician from Luttrell, Tennessee. "When we're playing it live, the fans are just going crazy for it and I think, you know, it's something everybody knows: that sense of wanting something so bad you can taste it. This is that time of year, it looks like it's that kind of song – and when you take that bluegrass and the Southern rock and put 'em together, it's pretty hard to resist."

Equally hard to resist is Chesney's Flip Flop Summer Tour, brought to you by Cruzan rum. Named the most attended Country Tour by Pollstar for the first half of 2007 – with over a half million fans played to – it encompassed NFL Stadiums in such unlikely places as Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle.

"The thing about this song, which is the thing about our live shows, too, it really captures where people are this time of year," Chesney says. "It’s summer. People want to feel good and be carefree. I think our music lets 'em says,'Here's where you are, and it's pretty great' and people respond to seeing the positive in a way that's lighthearted."

With a Madison Square Garden show still to come, Chesney's Flip Flop Summer Tour officially winds down with a double play in Atlanta Sept 7-8. Then it's on to Just Who I Am – and getting the reigning and three consecutive Academy of Country Music and two-time and current Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year's first new music in two years to his fans.