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Kenny on Oprah « Result #1 on Apr 10, 2009, 4:56pm »
Kenny Chesney Takes Oprah Crew Into His World
When Oprah Winfrey knew she was ready to explore country music, she came right for the biggest and brightest names today. With her comprehensive curiosity and will to show her fans and viewers the very best of the best, she reached out to "American Idol"/ACM Entertainer of the Year winner Carrie Underwood, shiny roots'n'pop'country Grammy-winningers Sugarland, rock icon/#1 country hit maker Darius Rucker and the only million-ticket-each-of-the-past-seven-summers in any genre 4-time and current Country Music Association and 4-tie Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year Kenny Chesney for her comprehensive take on modern country.
"When Oprah calls, you know you gotta kick your game up," Chesney says with a laugh. "You don't want to go on her show and half do it, be kinda good or even just hit your marks. If she's going to give you the time, then you better give her something pretty special - because that lady deserves no less!"
With a crew sent in from Chicago, the man who kicks off his Sun City Carnival Tour April 17-18 in a pair of beyond sold out shows in Uncasville, Connecticut - sponsored by Corona Extra, decided to give them an inside look at what it really takes for the fans to have a little freewheeling, laidback, easy breezy fun. Three rehearsal areas, five computer systems, 85 people and untold tons of cable, speakers, hi-def video screens, staging and a giant fish with his own roadcase named Marley later, they had some sense of what goes into throwing the party of the summer in 42 locations around the nation.
"For anyone who gets to watch 'Oprah' on Tuesday, though, you'll get a sense of what one day - out of the four or five months we spend creating the show they're gone see - is like! And it's just one day of many. It's a whole lotta work, but then it's also a whole lotta fun."
Catch Kenny on Oprah this Tuesday, April 14. Check local listings for times.
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Tour Pre-sales « Result #2 on Mar 16, 2009, 8:06am »
As Kenny treks across the country on his commando Keg in the Closet Tour, we know everyone is getting pumped for the big Sun City Carnival Tour set to kick off in about one month.
We have a gigantic week of new shows for the tour going on sale next week!
Members of the Kenny Chesney Fan Club will have access to buy tickets before they go on sale to the general public. The next presales will take place this Tuesday for shows in LA, NY, IL, ND and WA. Friday, May 15 CenturyTel Bossier City, LA Presale Begins 3/17 @ Noon CT
Thursday, June 4 DLPAC Darien Lakes, NY Presale Begins 3/17 @ Noon ET
Saturday, June 13 Soldier Field Chicago, IL Presale Begins 3/17 @ Noon CT
Wednesday, June 24 Nikon at Jones Beach Theate Jones Beach, NY Presale Begins 3/17 @ Noon ET
Saturday, August 1 Qwest Field Seattle, WA Presale Begins 3/17 @ Noon PT
Kenny is offering more chances to be upgraded to receive tickets in the sand bar, special general admission areas inside the stage. In many venues we will be giving away 25 pairs only to those folks who bought through fan club presales!
Members will be able to purchase presale tickets by logging into the fan club and going to the ticketing page.
Also if you missed out earlier this week, don't worry. There are still plenty of incredible field and lower level seats still available for the shows in Indianapolis, IN, Dallas, TX, and San Antonio.
If you are not currently a member you can join today by clicking here.
For the latest tour dates and news, check out Kennychesney.com for the most up to date information.
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Re: Kenny news « Result #3 on Dec 15, 2008, 12:09pm »
Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts make 'Billboard' touring top 10
Buzz up! Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts made Billboard magazine's list of the top 10 touring acts of 2008.
Bon Jovi was the top touring act in 2008 with a tour gross of $210.6 million, just ahead of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's $204.5 million, according to Billboard.
Next came Madonna ($162 million), the Police ($150 million), Celine Dion ($91 million), Kenny Chesney ($86 million), Neil Diamond ($81.2 million), Spice Girls ($70 million), the Eagles ($56.6 million) and Rascal Flatts ($55.8 million). Miley Cyruscame in at No. 14 for grosses topping $45 million. Since Madonna's tour still continues and has projected grosses of $280 million, it should be the top-grossing tour by a female and solo artist in history.
The overall touring industry reported record-setting grosses of nearly $4 billion, a 13 percent increase over 2007. But North American concert attendance was down nearly 2 percent, after 2007's 20 percent decrease.
"It was a solid year for country touring and a good year for touring overall, given the economic challenges that are out there," says Ray Waddell, Billboard's senior editor, touring. "Most acts or their handlers would tell you that they had to work this year to keep the level of success they had, but they still managed to pull it off."
Ray says country tours often offer fans better ticket value than pop and rock concerts.
"Chesney's run continues. He had a really strong year touring; they worked it hard," he says. "Rascal Flatts still hasn't peaked. They have shown that they have legs out there, which is important.
"Brad Paisley had a really good year. He was just under the Top 25, and some of that may have had to do with the time frame of when the dates took place (compared to the reporting period). He is still on the upswing. I think his biggest days are still ahead of him, for sure.
"Toby Keith (No. 23 at $31.7 million) doesn't always get the credit for whatever reason, but the guy is a powerhouse on the road. He had another great year and he has a very loyal following that continues to support him."
He says Sugarlandis poised to be a strong headliner, and Carrie Underwood became a headliner in 2008. Taylor Swift will begin headlining shows next year, he says.
"Country has been really good. It's not only building new headliners but keeping them there. They tour a lot, so you've got to provide value to give fans what they want to go back year after year."
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Re: Jokes « Result #4 on Dec 12, 2008, 11:47am »
Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random drug test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a drug test. Shouldn't one have to pass a drug test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them? Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do, on the other hand, have a problem with helping someone sitting around doing drugs, while I work. . . . Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a drug test to get a public assistance check?
Some things need to change in this country -- and soon!!!!!
We could title that program, 'Urine or You're Out'.
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Re: Kenny news « Result #5 on Dec 11, 2008, 11:44am »
Kenny Chesney's 2009 Tour Is the Sun City Carnival December 9, 2008
Kenny Chesney has named his 2009 tour the Sun City Carnival, according to a publicist for BNA Records. Among the tour stops is an Aug. 15 visit to Gillette Stadium near Boston where he has headlined several all-day concerts that also featured A-level country artists. Other shows include the Apple River Country Splash festival in Somerset, Wis. (June 19), the Stagecoach festival in Indio, Calif. (April 26), the Calgary Stampede in Calgary, Alberta (July 10), the Merritt Mountain Music Festival in Merritt, British Columbia (July 11) and Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyo. (July 24-25).
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Re: Kenny news « Result #8 on Dec 10, 2008, 11:57am »
Watch a very special performance by country superstar Kenny Chesney! Kenny takes us on his boat and performs songs from his new album, Lucky Old Sun, which hits shelves on October 14th. Available On Demand!...
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Re: Kenny news « Result #9 on Dec 9, 2008, 11:43am »
Grammy Firsts For Randy Travis And Kenny Chesney
It's been almost 25 years since Randy Travis released his first album, and he's finally been nominated for a Grammy in the best country album category. Travis says he spent years going through songs with his long-time producer Kyle Lehning for "Around The Bend," and now he feels like his career "has really come full circle." This year's nominations are also a first for Kenny Chesney. He's never been nominated for a Grammy before, and now he's up for best country collaboration with George Strait for the song "Shiftwork."
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Re: Kenny news « Result #10 on Dec 8, 2008, 11:49am »
Kenny Chesney’s “I Go Back” Goes on the Front
Posted: December 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pm | By: Alison Bonaguro
Add this to the list of big ideas I wish I’d thought of: Simple lyric T-shirts. The company identitee is making T-shirts for music lovers that will feature expressive lyrics that begin with “I.” Right now, the only country one is “I go back” by Kenny Chesney. But they’d like to hear what lyrics are suitable for wearing. You can go to the site and add yours or post them here. If it was up to me, this would be my new T-shirt wardrobe for 2009: I am tired of being lonely. I stirred my last batch of gravy. I saw God today. I still miss you. I should’ve been a cowboy. I still feel like I’m where I’m supposed to be. I am so much cooler online. I was a young troubadour. I was riding shotgun with my hair undone. I guess I should’ve been more like her. I guess that’s just the cowboy in me. I told you so. I wonder what you’d say to me
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Re: Kenny back in Foxboro 09! « Result #11 on Dec 6, 2008, 11:47am »
Oops, you're right, I mean Yoo-hoo. Actually Sugarland played w/Kenny in Foxboro 2 years ago with Brooks and Dunn. That was a great show, but then again, all of the Foxboro shows have been mighty good. Awesome that he included two songs from last year's show on the bonus disc of Lucky Old Sun.
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Kenny back in Foxboro 09! « Result #14 on Dec 4, 2008, 9:55pm »
Kenny Chesney’s annual stop at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA is a popular one. All 60,000 seats to each of these shows sells out almost immediately. It is no surprise that Gillette is one of his favorite places to play. Chesney recently told CJWF Country 1031AM: “There is just something about those people. Every time we play Gillette Stadium, they come — and they sing their hearts out. It may be one of the NFL’s biggest stadiums, but I’m telling you…every year, those people make it feel like a little club date.”
Can't wait...tix on sale soon!!!!!
Rumor is Kenny, Sugarland, Montgomery Gentry, Lady A and Miranda Lambert.
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Re: Kenny news « Result #15 on Dec 4, 2008, 11:41am »
CHESNEY DUMPAGE
Country megastar Kenny Chesney and longtime GF, Allison Stewart, are calling it quits but somebody ought to tell her.
So we are.
Chesney became peed-off with blonde real estate agent when she went all diva at the Country Music Awards in Vegas, says an insider.
What's worse, pals say Chesney's convinced she's planting rumors the couple are getting hitched.
After the CMA, rumors swirled higher than a sagebrush fire, Ches and Ally were doing the two-step nup but The ENQUIRER has exclusively learned Kenny didn't even speak to her for ten days after the event.
Like most breakups it takes time," a source revealed to The ENQUIRER.
"But Allison has moved to the bottom of Kenny's priority list."
Most likely somewhere in the vicinity of the trough.
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Re: Jokes « Result #18 on Dec 3, 2008, 11:39am »
Broken Dishwasher
Wanda's dishwasher quit working so she called a repairman. Since she had to go to work the next day, she told the repairman, 'I'll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I'll mail you a check."
"Oh, by the way don't worry about my dog Spike. He won't bother you. But, whatever you do, do NOT, under ANY circumstances, talk to my parrot! I REPEAT; DO NOT TALK TO MY PARROT!!!"
When the repairman arrived at Wanda's apartment the following day, he discovered the biggest, meanest looking dog he has ever seen. But, just as she had said, the dog just lay there on the carpet watching the repairman go about his work.
The parrot, however, drove him nuts the whole time with his incessant yelling, cursing and name calling. Finally the repairman couldn't contain himself any longer and yelled, 'Shut up, you stupid, ugly bird!'
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Re: Jokes « Result #19 on Dec 2, 2008, 11:37am »
What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:
If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is represented as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26.
Then:
H-A -R -D-W-O -R -K 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
and
K -N -O -W-L-E-D-G-E 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
But ,
A-T -T -I -T - U - D - E 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that while Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.
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Re: Kenny news « Result #20 on Dec 2, 2008, 11:35am »
Paper Doll Bidding Kicks Off Paper doll creations fashioned by such stars as Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Carrie Underwood and several others will be up for bid at ebay.com/paperdolls, beginning Friday, Nov. 28 Nearly 100 paper dolls have been decorated and autographed by stars from country music, sports, film and television for the Project Paper Doll campaign. The proceeds raised from the auction will benefit the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, one of the top research facilities in the country. The bidding concludes Dec. 17.
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Re: Kenny news « Result #21 on Dec 1, 2008, 1:36pm »
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I actually think I do believe it. When he is not on tour he really lets loose. He admits openly he loves cruzan and dt, beer, and all kinds of mixed drinks. Do I think he drinks like a fish when he is on tour, only sometimes. Look at how many songs he sings about alcohol - I think it very well could happen to him. I don't think his friends would pull him aside and say hey, no way Kenny, not her.
Let me tell you this story. I went out of town to Kenny Concert this year and the people that were next to us in the pit were really nice. We hung out together not wanting to move from the front row. We went the baseball game the night before the concert. And come to find out so did they. Everybody was looking around the stadium for him, knowing how much he likes to watch baseball, sports, etc... They had heard he was on a particular level so they went to check it out. They were waiting for the elevator and when it opened they couldn't believe that it was Kenny and a tall blonde girl, maybe back then it could have been Allison. They started to try to say hi and talk to him. He spilled his beer and ran behind her and told her to close the elevator door. They said he looked so drunk and that he was slurring his words, etc... This was the Friday before the Sat concert.
So this was not 1st hand knowledge obviously. But I think when he goes down to the islands and tries to be incognito, I think Ten With a Two could be true for him at least once in his life. Then again, maybe he wrote it about members of his band or his friends. I could see how that could happen easily.
Thanks for the comment Marientionette I sooo agree with you! I really enjoyed reading that!!
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Re: Kenny news « Result #22 on Dec 1, 2008, 12:04pm »
2008 CMAs: The Best (ahem, Sugarland) and Worst Nov 13, 2008, 07:28 AM | by Whitney Pastorek
Categories: About Last Night, Country Y'all!, Music, Television
Hey, the CMAs happened. It's country music's biggest night! Except for that other big night they have in Vegas in May where they rearrange the acronym and do it all over again! And dear god, PopWatchers, was it loooong. Why was it soooo looooong? My esteemed colleague Chris Willman was there in person, and I can only hope that at some point today he'll weigh in on that question for us. Because from my couch in L.A., it was like a Chevy commercial that wouldn't end but instead kept bumping up against an ad for Ambien starring Jewel. To misquote an old proverb employed by host Brad Paisley in order to introduce the Eagles in the dullest way possible: When you drink from a well, and that well was dug by the CMAs, don't operate heavy machinery.
Maybe it was the power outage in downtown Nashville this afternoon that killed the energy, but even under ideal conditions three hours is painfully gratuitous for a show that hands out a whopping nine awards on air -- especially if those awards are distributed to artists for things they did a year ago. And the endless string of performances is comprised largely of soul-killing mediocrity. And the end result, time after time, is exactly the same. Oh. FYI. Ladies and gentlemen, your Entertainer of the Year: Mr. Kenny Chesney (pictured).
So use your flip-flop to pop open a beer, check out the full list of winners here, Chris Willman's backstage report here, and settle in after the jump as I run down the bests (sneak peek: Sugarland, Urban, Underwood) and many, many worsts (sneak peek: Phantom of the Swift). But please, drink responsibly. The least you can do is have some thoughts for the comments section, if we ever get there.
BESTS
1. Sugarland Yes, I am a broken record. I love this band. Full disclosure: I've kept in touch with Kristian Bush since doing a feature on the pair this summer, but I don't think I'm crossing the personal bias line in pointing out that he and Jennifer Nettles write terrific songs. And last night, instead of trotting out "Already Gone" or "All I Want To Do" for another tired go-round, they went with "Love," a big anthem rooted in U2's "Beautiful Day" backbeat that showcased both of their distinctive voices, their charming live energy, and their hammy love of Beijing Olympic-style stagecraft (nice one, Paisley). As Nettles suggested while they were picking up that second straight Duo award: Go see one of their shows. In these dicey economic times, I guarantee an hour and a half of Sugarland is cheaper and more effective than therapy.
2. Carrie Underwood Yes, it was cheating to bring out the wife of a deceased soldier to introduce "Just a Dream" and get the waterworks going before she even sang a note. But this was a true showstopper, the emotional equivalent of Sugarland doing "Stay" last year, and official notice that we can now stop looking down on Ms. Underwood because of how she got here. The girl is learning how to use her voice for something other than blowing the doors off the joint every time she steps to the bedazzled mic -- and then she went ahead and blew the doors off anyway. I didn't breathe during this. (Bonus points for the classy way she alluded to Idol during her Best Female Vocalist acceptance speech, the cute shout-out to her mom, and admirably keeping up with Paisley during her hosting duties all night.)
3. Keith Urban Yes, the new song, "Sweet Thing," is more of his jingly car-stereo pop, but on a night where mid-tempo snoozers were crawling around the floor like windup toys on their last legs, I needed the Aussie zip.
4. Kid Rock Yes, because I enjoyed this, I should be taken out and shot along with whoever allowed "Sweet Home Alabama" to be bastardized by "All Summer Long." But who else would have brought out Lil' Wayne, previously ranked a close second to William Ayers on my list of "People Who Will Not Be Appearing At The CMAs"? Regardless of what you think about the song or its presence on country radio, it is really hard to deny that Kid Rock is having way more fun than all of us.
5. Miranda Lambert "More Like Her" was the perfect song to prove the Chris Daughtry of Nashville Star's got a powerful, throbbing heart under all that kerosene and gunpowder and lead. Hang in there, honey -- your time will come.
Awards of special merit: Hootie, a natural performer who really did write a very good country song in "Don't Think I Don't Think About It" (and okay, Hootie's name is actually Darius Rucker); Lady Antebellum winning Best New Artist and being generally cuter than Puppycam; George Strait, because he is George Strait; and Paisley for obviously rewriting several of his jokes at the emcee mic, resulting in occasional brilliance. ("Left game controller," heh-heh.)
WORSTS
Deep breath. You know what? I'm not even gonna list 'em. Let's just go to my notes. Opening number! "Start a Band"! This was a wonderful guitar skills competition between Brad Paisley and Keith Urban. Also, it was kinda boring, in the same way that watching your boyfriend and his buddy noodling around at Guitar Center on a perfectly beautiful Saturday afternoon is kinda boring. Paisley and Urban are both incredibly talented noodlers. We know. Move it along!
Next up, Carrie Underwood's shockingly evident support undergarments under Dress 1 (FAIL)! And Kellie Pickler's incompetence as both a country music superstar and/or Pat Benatar! I give her props for bringing everyone to tears during last year's performance of "I Wonder," but she has now skidded back to zero on the cred scale, and from the look of Reba McEntire smiling through gritted teeth after enduring Pickler's warblings on "Best Days of your Life," I'm not alone in that thought. Also not alone: Any one of the poor folks seated in the first 15 rows who got mobbed by the line dancers who were doing their best to distract from the fact that Alan Jackson's "Good Time" goes nowhere and does nothing except make me miss the crap outta the Chattahootchee.
Not even Billy Ray Cyrus' ongoing inability to read a teleprompter convincingly could spoil seeing Jennifer Nettles break up the sausage party to win Best Single for "Stay," after which my euphoria lasted through Carrie Dress 2 (elegant!), Miranda's simple loveliness, and the exuberance of the Lady As. It was then promptly killed by the realizations that 1) I'd pay almost any amount of money to hear Martina "Pipes" McBride sing a song about giving up on your dreams and staying in bed all day feeling sorry for yourself, just to break up her inspirational monotony, and 2) Rodney "No, Really, Please Buy a Chevrolet" Atkins is totally the Rick Astley of country music. In light of these two realizations, Rascal Flatts winning Best Vocal Group was such a minor inconvenience that I actually chuckled at Jay-Dawg's crack about his jacket being made of "Mamaw's curtains." (Note: that guy's name might not actually be "Jay-Dawg.") At this point, we'd been here an hour, and they'd handed out three awards. Right on pace, turbo!
I will go easy on Taylor Swift because if I went hard on the little dead-eyed darling and her ridiculous ballroom dancing fairy tale fiasco (your move, Twilight), I'd probably never get my rage back under control. So she can't sing, has exactly zero stage presence, and has now used the same My-Costume-Change-Will-Blow-Your-Mind gag on two straight awards shows. That's fine. She's very pretty and sells a lot of records, and makes pre-teen girls happy. Carry on, my wayward waif. I'll be over here, getting my thang on with Lil' Wayne, who -- based on the way he gave up on that guitar-playing stunt halfway through "All Summer Long" -- clearly knows his limitations. I will also hang out with George Strait, because even when he's drafting off Kenny Chesney's island vibe, he's still the greatest country singer of my lifetime.
Carrie Dress 4 almost made me put my eyes out with a Twizzler (belly cutouts = EPIC FAIL) until I saw Reba take the stage with Brooks & Dunn. I got excited, and then I went ahead and smacked myself in the face repeatedly anyway because how dare they bring Reba McEntire on stage and put her next to that Muppet-haired Ronnie person who always looks like he's had one too many Aleve and not turn her mic up properly??? "Cowgirls Don't Cry"? This one did. (Seriously, though, I heard that song on the radio the other day and I liked it. Until last night. This, CMA producers, is what we call "a problem.")
I didn't like Brad Paisley's "Waitin' on a Woman" as much as I probably should have, but I think once you've put a song on three straight albums, I'm allowed to be waitin' on you to play something else. Strong block followed of Urban, Underwood, and Sugarland, while James Otto seemed like a sweet kid who should not be taking hair tips from any of the following people: Billy Ray Cyrus, Ronnie Dunn, or that one dude in Little Big Town. And if I'm to believe that Kenny Chesney and his nervous tic motion of the head to the left are what makes for a 97-time Entertainer of the Year, I should hope he'd come packing more than Bob Marley's backing band, now fronted by the reggae equivalent of that Filipino dude Journey found to impersonate Steve Perry. I'm sorry, Wailers lead singer Elan Atias. You seem very talented (and that does appear to be your real name) but I am not on a cruise, and I'd like to be entertained by Kenny Chesney, who I have been sitting here for close to three hours to see. I know many, many people love Kenny -- but I can't stop respectfully wondering how much rum is involved in that affection, because I just don't get it, and I'm trying to get it, and a bar-band rendition of "Three Little Birds" is not helping me get it. Was Trace Adkins really that good on "You're Gonna Miss This," or was Kenny really that pointless? You tell me. Right about now I'd probably have watched Julianne Hough dance, just to have something new to do with my brain.
We ended with the night's Big Special Guest(s), Shania Twain, who did not sing, but instead gave Kenny his EOTY award, got ogled, and disappeared into Canada for what I hope is not another six years of winter. Please come back, Shania. While you're at it, bring Garth Brooks, Faith Hill and, I dunno, Alabama with you. Open your mouths and turn these disposable, auto-tuned posers to dust that blows into the upper recesses of the Sommet Center, never to be heard from again. I know that's mean to the disposable posers, and doesn't give enough credit to the talented folks still holding it down with all their might. And I know that the crossover success of people like Shania and Garth and Faith is greatly responsible for the Pickle(r) we're in now. But if this was country's biggest night (until May)... that don't impress me much.
Um, yeah. I shudder to ask: What did you think, PopWatchers?
2008 CMA AWARD WINNERS:
Entertainer of the Year: Kenny Chesney
Female Vocalist of the Year: Carrie Underwood
Male Vocalist of the Year: Brad Paisley
New Artist of the Year: Lady Antebellum
Vocal Group of the Year: Rascal Flatts
Vocal Duo of the Year: Sugarland
Single of the Year: "I Saw God Today," George Strait; produced by Tony Brown and George Strait
Album of the Year: Troubadour, George Strait; produced by Tony Brown and George Strait
Song of the Year: “Stay,” Jennifer Nettles
Musical Event of the Year: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Gone Gone Gone”
Video of the Year: “Waitin’ On A Woman,” Brad Paisley featuring Andy Griffith; directed by Jim Shea & Peter Tilden
I Don’t Believe Kenny Chesney Posted: November 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm | By: Alison Bonaguro When I worked in the advertising business, I always had to be really concerned about the believability factor. I couldn’t just make grandiose claims, like “this baby food will make your baby get into Harvard,” because nobody would believe it. But with country music, I’ve realized that I don’t have to believe what the artist is claiming. I will love the songs regardless of how absurd the claims are.
Like in Kenny Chesney’s “Ten With a Two.” It’s on his new album, and it’s your basic guy-gets-drunk, guy-gets-girl, guy-wakes-up-and-realizes-girl-is-ugly story. Now, Kenny Chesney seems like a very nice guy. Even a little shy. And from the looks of his rock star body he surely must limit his alcohol intake. So he’s hardly the picture of a boozing womanizer perched on a barstool sizing up the women for a potential one-night stand. Chesney, to me, actually seems like way more of a gentleman.
So when he’s singing, “My whole head got light, I lost my eyesight, I ain’t been that drunk in a while/Along about one, I spotted a queen, and I started to make my move./Aw, she was believing every line I was laying, Lord I was just too cool/Well, I thought I died and gone to heaven, but Lord did I look like a fool/Last night I came in at two with a ten, but at ten, I woke up with a two,” we’re supposed to believe this: that Chesney has his beer goggles on, but by the time the morning rolls around, he realizes the supermodel he brought home last night is actually not that attractive. He says, “I ain’t never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I sure woke up with a few.” Please. There’s no way Chesney is living that life. If he was, Oprah would’ve done an entire episode on “The Ugly Girls Who’ve Gone Home With Kenny Chesney.”
So I don’t believe one word of it, but here I am, singing along with every one. Loudly. And loving every minute of the funky little calypso beat. That’s the power of country. That the music itself manages to transcend the believability factor.
I actually think I do believe it. When he is not on tour he really lets loose. He admits openly he loves cruzan and dt, beer, and all kinds of mixed drinks. Do I think he drinks like a fish when he is on tour, only sometimes. Look at how many songs he sings about alcohol - I think it very well could happen to him. I don't think his friends would pull him aside and say hey, no way Kenny, not her.
Let me tell you this story. I went out of town to Kenny Concert this year and the people that were next to us in the pit were really nice. We hung out together not wanting to move from the front row. We went the baseball game the night before the concert. And come to find out so did they. Everybody was looking around the stadium for him, knowing how much he likes to watch baseball, sports, etc... They had heard he was on a particular level so they went to check it out. They were waiting for the elevator and when it opened they couldn't believe that it was Kenny and a tall blonde girl, maybe back then it could have been Allison. They started to try to say hi and talk to him. He spilled his beer and ran behind her and told her to close the elevator door. They said he looked so drunk and that he was slurring his words, etc... This was the Friday before the Sat concert.
So this was not 1st hand knowledge obviously. But I think when he goes down to the islands and tries to be incognito, I think Ten With a Two could be true for him at least once in his life. Then again, maybe he wrote it about members of his band or his friends. I could see how that could happen easily.
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