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Kenny Chesney

Luttrell, TN

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country Popularity: 71 Popular Division

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Region: Ridge and Valley Conference: Southeast Regional Rank: #10

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Did You Know

  • • Born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in tiny Luttrell — son of a teacher and a hair stylist.
  • • Played baseball and football at Gibbs High School before a Christmas guitar changed everything.
  • • Studied advertising at East Tennessee State and was part of the ETSU Bluegrass Program.
  • • Recorded a self-released demo and sold 1,000 copies at local clubs in Johnson City to buy a new guitar.
  • • Passed an audition at Nashville's legendary Bluebird Cafe in March 1991 — right after graduating college.
  • • Crushed bones in his foot during a 2008 concert when it got caught in a stage lift — finished the show anyway.
  • • Named his fan club "No Shoes Nation" during a 2012 concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
  • • His home on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands was destroyed by Hurricane Irma in 2017.
  • • Created the Love for Love City foundation and donated all proceeds from his album "Songs for the Saints" to hurricane victims.
  • • Was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity at East Tennessee State University.

Locations in Lyrics

66 location references across 53 songs

Songs & Places

Pirate Song
, TX, LA, MS, AL, FL
"I wish I was a pirate ship wrecked down in Mexico"
El Cerrito Place
Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica, CA Twentynine Palms, CA Pioneertown, CA
"And all these pretty people up on El Cerrito Place"
Out Last Night
, AR , ME , AL Panama City, FL , TN
"There were girls from Argentina and Arkansas"
Here and Now
New York City, NY , TN Detroit, MI Malibu, CA
"Seen the skyline of New York City"
Boats
Key Biscayne, FL Newport, RI Newport Beach, CA
"He bought in Key Biscane"
There Goes My Life
"And hangin' out on the coast"
Coastal
Detroit, MI , FL Perdido Key, FL , AL
"Silver hair, silver Buick"
Setting the World on Fire
Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica, CA
"Yeah we got drunk on La Cienega Boulevard"
The Boys of Fall
"In little towns like mine that's all they got"
Pirate Flag
, TN Key West, FL , FL
"Smoky Mountains, nice place to hang around"
I Go Back
, NC
"And the taste of salt on a Carolina shore"
No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
"The sun and the sand and a drink in my hand with no bottom"
Honey Would You Stand By Me
Los Angeles, CA Cheyenne, WY Fort Worth, TX
"If I tried my luck in Hollywood"
California
, CA
"I'm going to California"
When the Sun Goes Down
Key West, FL Myrtle Beach, SC Panama City Beach, FL San Diego, CA Galveston, TX
"Sun tanned toes tickling the sand"
Live Those Songs
Fresno, CA Panama City Beach, FL
"Saw him sitting on a sidewalk in Fresno"
American Kids
New York City, NY Los Angeles, CA Lynchburg, TN
"New York to LA"
Outta Here
, FL Key West, FL , TX
"Let's cruise all the way down A1A"
You and Tequila
Los Angeles, CA
"Made it up Mulholland Drive"
Song for the Saints
, VI , LA
"God lifted these islands from the ocean"
Happy Does
Tucson, AZ Boulder, CO
"Heads, you're goin' to Tucson, Arizona"
Summertime
Ashland City, TN Detroit, MI
"Out on 49"
Noise
, TN
"Drownin' out all the dreams of this Tennessee boy"
When I See This Bar
, ME Jacksonville, FL Key Biscayne, FL
"A few have moved on back to Maine"
Boston
Boston, MA , FL
"She comes from Boston"
Flora-Bama
Perdido Key, FL Talladega, AL Panama City Beach, FL Destin, FL Fort Walton Beach, FL Pensacola Beach, FL Orange Beach, AL Gulf Shores, AL New Orleans, LA Knoxville, TN Tuscaloosa, AL Tallahassee, FL Auburn, AL Gainesville, FL
"Sitting here at the Flora-Bama"
Somewhere In The Sun
Austin, TX
"Stuck here at a Holiday Inn near Austin, Texas"
How Forever Feels
Daytona Beach, FL Detroit, MI
"Now I know how Richard Petty feels"
Another Friday Night
, TN Memphis, TN
"We go fog up the windows in the Smoky Mountains"
Anything But Mine
Atlantic City, NJ , NJ Cleveland, OH
"Walking alone beneath the lights of that miracle mile / There's a local band playing at the sea side pavilion"
Back Where I Come From
, TN
"I'm an old Tennessean"
Paris, Tennessee
Paris, TN Paris, TX , TN Paris, KY Paris, MO Paris, ID Paris, AR Paris, ME
"Gonna take you all the way to Paris, Tennessee"
All the Pretty Girls
Los Angeles, CA
"All the pretty girls said I'm going to L.A"
Get Along
, VA Los Angeles, CA
"Met a man wearin' a T-shirt, said "Virginia is for lovers""
Wild Child
Manchester, TN Black Rock City, NV Detroit, MI
"Been to Bonnaroo or Burning Man"
Beer in Mexico
Luttrell, TN
Don't Blink
Luttrell, TN
Key's In the Conch Shell
Key West, FL
"The key's in the conch shell, come on in"
Paris; Tennessee
Paris, TN
The Good Stuff
Luttrell, TN
You and Tequila (feat. Grace Potter)
Mulholland Drive, CA , CA
"Made it up Mulholland Drive"
take her home
New York City, NY
Take Her Home
"In a car seat creepin' down the interstate"
Better As A Memory
"My only friends are pirates"
Just To Say We Did
Knoxville, TN Myrtle Beach, SC , NC Las Vegas, NV
"Drove from Knoxville to Myrtle Beach"
Knowing You
"At a bar on a beach in the sun somewhere"
Save It For A Rainy Day
"Cause the boat's in the bay and it's calling my name"
Seven Days
"She said it was her first time to see the sea"
She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy
"But if it runs like a Deere, man, her eyes light up"
Shiftwork
"It took me to the beach"
Somewhere with You
"Somewhere with you, like we did on the beach last summer"
Tip of My Tongue
"I can taste the ocean on the tip of my tongue"
Young
"Heading to the rapids with some discount beer"

Rivers & Roads in Song Nearby

Highway I 40 10 Tennessee River 11 Cumberland River 10

Connected Places

Luttrell, TN Austin, TX Boston, MA Boulder, CO Cleveland, OH Destin, FL Dodge City, KS El Cerrito Place, CA Elvis, TN Flora-Bama, FL Fort Walton Beach, FL Fresno, CA Gulf Shores, AL Hollywood, CA Jacksonville, FL Key Biscayne, FL Key West, FL Knoxville, TN L.A., CA Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA Malibu, CA Manchester, TN Mulholland Drive, CA Myrtle Beach, SC New York, NY New York City, NY Newport, RI Orange Beach, AL Panama City Beach, FL Paris, TN Pensacola Beach, FL Perdido Key, AL Perdido Key, FL Pioneertown, CA Rutherfordton, NC Smoky Mountains, TN Talladega, AL Tucson, AZ
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