Recently mis-married country music superstar Kenny Chesney has a lot going on to take his mind off his recent split with Renee Zellweger after just four months of marriage.
Songwriter's association ASCAP just announced that it will present Chesney with the "ASCAP Voice of Music Award" during the 43rd Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards gala on Monday, October 17, 2005 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Beyond the ASCAP award, Chesney will release his second studio album of the year on November 8, The Road and the Radio is expected to feature 11 tracks, including first single "Who You'd Be Today," a breakup ballad zipping up the country charts, "Tequila Loves Me (Even if You Don't)," "Another Beer in Mexico," "Living in Fast Forward" and "You Save Me."

hesney has a November 7 performance scheduled on ABC's Good Morning America in NYC's Times Square to promote the release, and the network also has a Chesney special to air the week of Thanksgiving.
For her part, Zellweger was so incensed by a gossip report in the NY Post's PageSix column linking her once again with former boyfriend, Irish singer Damien Rice, that she called the writer from the lobby of the Post's Manhattan office and demanded to see him. Zellweger then denied the claims she was planning a trip to visit Rice, saying the report was "hurtful. It wasn't true. It made me look slutty."