I took a vacation day last Friday so Kim & I could go over to New Orleans and see the Brothers of the Sun tour with Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw. It was an awesome show. We got there a little late and missed Jake Owen, but got to see all of Tim & Kenny's performance. Tim came out and sang most of his bigger hit songs and a couple new ones: "Truck Yeah" and "Mexicoma". The whole time he was singing Mexicoma it sounded like he was saying "Pensacola". Good song though. After Tim got done, they did a quick set change and Kenny started his performance by coming up through a smaller stage back by the soundboard in the back of the floor section. At the end of the song, a chair that was rigged to a wire came up and he sat on that and rode it to the main stage. Pretty cool stuff. I noticed that it was a very up-tempo set by both artists. Fine with me. Considering the concert was in New Orleans and Kenny is good friends with several Saints players and coaches, we thought for sure he would bring someone out on stage with him, but it didn't happen, but Kenny did hold up a "FREE SEAN PAYTON" tshirt which the crowd loved. That was definitely the loudest moment of the evening. After Kenny's set, he came back out a started the song "Feel Like A Rock Star" and when it came to Tim's part of the song, Tim came up on the smaller stage where Kenny first appeared, but he didn't ride that chair to the stage, he walked through the crowd with some big beefy security guys around him. They sang that song, Indian Outlaw, She Thinks My Tractors Sexy and Runnin' on Empty to close the show. Funny moment during their last song, Tim started cracking up and pointing at a couple guys in the crowd and motioned for them to come up on stage. When they got up and the camera zoomed in for the crowd to to see, the guy Tim brought up first was a dead-ringer for him. Coulda been his twin brother and his buddy looked just like Kenny. They goofed around on stage, took some pictures & had a few laughs, and that's how the show ended. I thought that was pretty interesting considering what happened a couple weeks ago when security booted a guy who looked just like Kenny. Coincidence? Probably. Pretty funny moment though. This was my 5th time seeing Tim and at least my 5th time seeing Kenny, and both guys were at the top of their game. I was very impressed. Tonight (8/6) Tim is taping an episode of the PBS program Austin City Limits. No word on when that will make it to air, but I'll keep you posted.
Couple weeks ago I mentioned that Blake Shelton was working on a Christmas CD, and now we have a little more info on that. First of all the title will be "Cheers, It's Christmas". Blake credits his wife Miranda Lambert with coming up with the title. Very fitting because Blake has never been accused of turning down an adult beverage. He didn't release a full track listing, but did say that he recorded a few duets. One with Reba. Another with Michael Buble, and a third duet with his mother, Dorothy Strickland. Blake described the duet with his mother as an emotional song written about the special women in his life. The last bit of info is the release date, October 2nd. Blake is also working on the 3rd season of The Voice which starts next month on NBC.
Garth has signed on to appear in a CBS TV special called "Teachers Rock" later this month. It's a back to school concert special that will also feature Carrie Underwood, Dierks Bentley and several artists from other genres. Look for that on Saturday the 18th at 7pm on CBS.
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