Kenny Chesney's new music video for "Flora-Bama" features a Southern treasure: the Flora-Bama Lounge and Package in Perdido Key, Florida.
"This place is so many things to so many people," Chesney said, via The Boot. "It has been for a long time because they've shared life here. Friendships were born here. Relationships were born here. Every place you look, there's 50 years of memories. Lovers have written their names on the wall, they've declared their love for each other on the wall of this place."
The video includes live clips from Chesney's free August show at the Lounge and Package.
"That kind of stuff lives forever in the thread, in the heart and the soul of a place like this," he continues. "I feel like the people that come to this bar really do represent my audience and everything that we've built No Shoe Nation to be."
Chesney was working on his new album The Big Revival for most of the year, so that Flora-Bama Jama gig was his only "big" concert in 2014. According to The Boot, that show drew more than 40,000 fans.
"To me, a place like the Flora-Bama is all about kicking back, being with your friends and not worrying about a thing," Chesney said. "Just hang out and be easy. I love that it's on a border, that it's on a beach, that it's like the best bar anywhere people get together and just be! It's everything the notion of The Big Revival is built on: taking that time to regroup, replenish then re-engage with the passion of being truly, absolutely alive."
His upcoming Big Revival Tour will hit 55 American cities across the United States, beginning in March 2015.
"I made a conscious choice to take the year off the road because I knew that I — the record that I had in mind that I wanted to make, I knew I couldn't just mail that in," he said. "I couldn't do it balancing both worlds of being on the road and trying to be creative in the studio."
