Kenny Gets The Wailers

Kenny Chesney’s new video, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven,” will feature reggae legend Bob Marley’s band, The Wailers.

The video was filmed in Jamaica, where Kenny spends a good deal of his off-road time. “There is a real soul to that island,” Kenny says. “When you’re singing about the notion of wanting to go to heaven, it is pretty much a bit of heaven on earth.” Kenny adds that he’s delighted to be joined by The Wailers band for the island video. “I can’t even begin to tell you how great it was to work with them,” Kenny says. “They were so generous in terms of their time and the stories they’d tell us.”

• published August 4, 2008
• photo by GLEN ROSE/SONY BMG