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Post by 1kennychesney on Jun 11, 2007 12:07:12 GMT -5
A Kenny Chesney Souvenir -- His Old Phone Number
My clever friend, Beverly Keel, covers news for The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville. She's forever coming up with contest ideas, and the week before the CMA Music Festival, the prize was two tickets to the event. Readers were asked to share their most unusual personal experiences involving country music stars.
Prize winner Shelley Devereaux and her family moved back to the Nashville area several years ago after living in Knoxville, Tenn. As it turned out, the new phone number issued to them previously belonged to none other than Kenny Chesney. Of course, even after Kenny got a new phone number, the Devereauxs continued to get late night phone calls from various females on a regular basis. One girl even called from the islands hoping to "hook up" with Kenny at his next concert.
One of the calls was a good one, though. After the Chesney-Zellweger nuptials in 2005, Keith Urban phoned and started his conversation with a laugh, saying, "Hello, darling. This is Keith Urban calling." The Devereauxs still get those calls -- the ones they refer to as "Kenny calls" -- but Keith apparently has Kenny's current number. At least he's not calling the Devereauxs anymore.
Kenny Chesney's New Single Is One of His Best Ever
Speaking of Kenny Chesney, when I read the lyrics of his new single, "Never Wanted Nothing More," I got chills and asked my grandson to put the CD in the player. (See, I know how to play vinyl albums. But for some reason, a machine where you push buttons and get perfect sound is just too 2007 for me.)
Anyway, it only took one spin. I was dancing and screaming, and so is America. This could be Kenny's biggest single since "The Good Stuff." It hit the country singles chart at No. 37 in its first week out the slot. You go, Ronnie Bowman and Chris Stapleton, who wrote the song.
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Post by BeachTenant on Jun 11, 2007 19:10:09 GMT -5
That is too funny!!
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Post by 1kennychesney on Jun 21, 2007 17:25:12 GMT -5
Yeppers!!!
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Post by yoohoo on Sept 19, 2007 11:00:25 GMT -5
Kelsie Sinagra
What is the craziest thing you have ever done? I dressed up in an old crown and banner for a Kenny Chesney concert and went from official to official at the concert trying to convince them I was scheduled to announce Kenny on stage, and a couple of them truly believed me! Needless to say, in the end I failed in my mission, but it was worth a try!
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Post by igoback02 on Sept 20, 2007 8:06:24 GMT -5
Who's Kelsie Sinagra? Anyway, funny story ;D
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Post by yoohoo on Sept 20, 2007 10:46:11 GMT -5
Who's Kelsie Sinagra? Anyway, funny story ;D That would help wouldn't it  Miss Teen USA Contestant |
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Post by chesneynut on Sept 20, 2007 18:07:37 GMT -5
  Awesome, thanks for posting.
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Post by yoohoo on Sept 24, 2007 11:01:13 GMT -5
Kenny Chesney's Preshow Ritual
The country star tells us about his ''vibe room''
''We have a vibe room backstage,'' says the country-rocker. ''We crank up music, and everyone from the crew to family and friends take a deep breath, let go of whatever is bothering us, and shake out all the kinks. It helps me give 100 percent of my energy to the audience. We do that every show night.''
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Post by chesneynut on Sept 25, 2007 7:07:34 GMT -5
Ok I wanna watch him shake out the "kinks" LMFAO!!!!!   |
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Post by BeachTenant on Sept 25, 2007 8:19:53 GMT -5
OHHHH, ME TOO!! LMAO 
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Post by yoohoo on Sept 25, 2007 10:56:11 GMT -5
Behave Girls!  He has and mind and feelings you know! |
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Post by yoohoo on Sept 25, 2007 10:56:52 GMT -5
Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates (2007)
Kenny Chesney
MELLOW DRAMA Kenny Chesney gets a little introspective as he continues to extol the chilled-out life
Jim Graham/ReduxCredits
Release Date: Sep 11, 2007; Lead Performance: Kenny Chesney; Genre: Country/Bluegrass
By Whitney Pastorek
For the better part of this new century, country superstar Kenny Chesney has criss-crossed America selling his laissez-faire musical lifestyle, rooted in tank tops and rum. But now, at the increasingly ripe age of 39, the flip-flops may be starting to chafe, as the singer begins wondering if life as a hillbilly rock star is all it's cracked up to be. With his 11th album, the woefully titled Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, that existential crisis is on full display.
Despite being a decent songwriter (see ''Beer in Mexico,'' the best song from 2005's The Road and the Radio), Chesney penned none of Just Who I Am's 11 tracks. Yet many of the tunes he's chosen seem personal, not to mention pensive — take ''Better as a Memory,'' a sweet 'n' low meditation on love and leaving, or ''Demons,'' an austere album closer that lets regret and whiskey flow free. These are simple, earnest songs from the perspective of someone realizing his limitations as a man.
But don't despair, party people. While the lyrics are engaging (and, yes, emotionally honest), it's not like Chesney's fiddling around with some alt-country concept album here. The usual bulletproof, radio-friendly production remains fully intact. Insanely pleasant first single ''Never Wanted Nothing More'' and the Mellencampian riffs of ''Just Not Today'' both trade on memories of girls, summer days, and pickup trucks (a few of Chesney's favorite subjects) to fire up those who prefer to remember life like it probably never was. The Dwight Yoakam-penned ''Wild Ride'' is a surrealist journey drenched in vocoder, so you know it's fun. And two odd though still catchy songs appear to have wandered in from another, less good album: ''Shiftwork,'' a calypso duet with George Strait, and ''Dancin' for the Groceries,'' a single-mom stripper saga that's undermined by lines like ''So she puts on a dress that might feel pretty/If she didn't have to take it off again.''
It's probably not a coincidence that Just Who I Am's finest moment comes via the fusion of commercialism and contemplation. ''Don't Blink'' is a meticulously pop-crafted slow burner with a monster hook that also features a reflective verse: ''Best start puttin' first things first/'Cause when your hourglass runs outta sand/You can't flip it over, start again.'' Brilliant poetry it's not, but let's hope that revelation sticks. For while Chesney can always count on the booze-cruise crowd, the tentative maturity that threads its way through Just Who I Am reveals an artist ready and able to try something deeper. And there's a lot of us out here who'd happily raise a rum punch to that.
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Post by yoohoo on Oct 3, 2007 10:51:12 GMT -5
Jerry Lee Lewis Criticizes Today's Country Music
"It's crap... It all sounds alike to me. They're not doing any down the-road country music."
Jerry Lee Lewis has criticized country music's current stars, insisting the current Nashville, Tennessee scene all sounds the same to him.
The "Great Balls of Fire" star turned his back on rock 'n' roll to become a country maverick in the 1960s and believes the likes of Kenny Chesney, Faith Hill and Keith Urban could all learn a lot by going back to their roots.
Speaking to Blender magazine, he says, "It's crap... It all sounds alike to me. They're not doing any down the-road country music.
"I don't know what they're doing - I don't think they know what they're doin', either. I think it stopped being good when I left there (Nashville)."
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Post by yoohoo on Oct 4, 2007 10:38:58 GMT -5
Pat Green
Lone star
BY KATHY JUSTICE
Pat Green has toured with Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson and Keith Urban. He claims a legion of fans, and his 10th album, 2006's Cannonball, landed in the Top 20 of Billboard's 200. He's been nominated for three Grammys and released records on two major labels, most recently Sony's Nashville division BNA. But Green is not a CMT megastar or Nashville's flavor of the minute.
It's probably best that way: He lives comfortably in cowboy hats and sunglasses, his earned blue-collar outlook only matching his Lone Star spirit of nonconformity. Born and raised in Texas, Green sang for cash in bars on weekends and funded his first recording sessions himself. Nods from Willie Nelson and the restlessness of a career performer helped him spread his rambling, rambunctious country rock through the late '90s.
Still, even with opening slots in sold-out amphitheaters, he's remained an anomaly, skating below the mainstream radar but close enough to it to sell 500,000 records in 2003. A Texas songwriter just cracking the Robert Earl Keen mold, Green celebrates the spirit of Texas country in his recordings with a continued defiance of Nashville standards. This summer, he toured with Dave Matthews Band, and—on Cannonball—he blends heavy rock influence with a traditional country base. Truly a bit country, truly a bit rock 'n' roll, Green makes country sound fresh with sweet, fiery melodies and a tinge of good ol' grit. "Feels Just Like It Should" recalls Bob Seger's boogie guitar, and "Way Back Texas" evokes John Mellencamp's rhythmic anthems. Green has his critics, certainly, but they mostly point to his limited perspective, saying he can only write about beers, tacos and Texas. But that's an OK reality for a boy from Waco, no?
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Post by BeachTenant on Oct 4, 2007 11:42:59 GMT -5
Very cool articles! The one about Jerry Lee Lewis though is one that sorta irked me. I never cared too much for the guy, but his oppinions about todays country is not one I agree with  ( to each their own I guess ) |
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