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Today's DID YOU KNOW Tidbit...
Did you know that an early endorsement by George Jones turned out to be prophecy for Kenny Chesney's career?
Nothing's more encouraging for upcoming artists than for legendary stars to compliment them with the prediction, "They're going to be big someday." Sometimes those remarks do become prophecy as it did for Kenny Chesney who was thrilled to be invited to get up on stage with Jones very early on. "The first show I ever did with George Jones was in Beaumont Texas and he got me up during HIS show, and I sang "I Don't Need Your Rocking Chair" with him. That was one of the highlights of my whole life. It was just the biggest thing in the world. After we got done, George come over there and I went over to George, his microphone, he put his arm around me and hugged my neck and told everybody, 'Watch out for Kenny Chesney, because he might do something one day!' That meant the world to me. It absolutely meant the world to me," Kenny recalls fondly.


Past DID YOU KNOW Tidbits...
May 7: Did you know that Blake Shelton feels he owes Toby Keith a debt of gratitude?
Blake tells us that Toby Keith helped him early on partly because they're both Okeys. "I'll always be in debt personally to Toby Keith who brought me out to tour with him for over a year, which was absolutely amazing. It was just he and I out there on the road and he was really good to me. I think he was loyal to me be cause I'm from Oklahoma and that actually means a lot to Toby to take care of his hometown people," says Blake.

May 6: Did you know that one of Gary Allan's biggest early jobs was playing for commentator, RUSH LIMBAUGH?
That's right, Gary tells us that early on in his career he formed the band The Wranglers and began doing some gigs in Southern California. But, one of his biggest gigs came when he got invited to play a big show for a guy he didn't know anything about named, Rush Limbaugh. "I didn't even know who he was when he called. They just called and I had no idea who he was and I still really don't know much about him. I just know I said how much and they said this is what we'll pay you and they paid us to go out there and play this thing in Colorado. And I think I played for about twenty-five thousand people out there. It was pretty amazing. It was huge. That's was probably the only road trip we did."

May 5: According to Dolly Parton her dad was a man that would've really identified with Rodney Atkins recent #1 hit, "Cleaning This Gun"?
Dolly Parton says that, with six young and pretty daughters, he was like the guy in the song Rodney's song, 6 times over. "I remember one time when I had my first boyfriend - my dad didn't like me to date at all, you know, Daddy had 6 girls and they were all you know, cute girls, and Daddy was just a country guy. So, I remember the first time I came home; I was just sure that I was in love and Daddy was always afraid we were going to get in trouble and get pregnant and all that stuff. And so I remember I come home and I said something about I was going with this boy and I said, "But Daddy, I'm in love!" He said, "Oh hell, you ain't in love, you're in heat!" And I thought that was awful - it wasn't so funny then but years later I thought about it, and ended up putting that line in the song 'Romeo.'"

May 2: Did you know that Alan Jackson feared his ode to Hanks Williams, "Midnight in Montgomery," wouldn't be a hit with younger fans?
"Oh yeah," Alan told us. "That's one song that really surprised me. It had been one of my favorite songs, but since we wrote it I wasn't sure how commercial it would be because so many people - especially the younger fans, younger than me, I weren't sure would even know that much about HANK you know? But boy, they're the ones that loved it, I mean they were the ones, the young people that were just standing up screaming at the shows about that song and telling me that's their favorite song." Best part, Hank Jr. loved the song as well, "Yeah, I'd seen HANK at a thing and he said he'd heard the song and really liked it . And we called him again when we shot the video to make sure they didn't mind us using a replica kind of a -Hank's headstone and things, and they didn't have a problem at all.. they were glad for it."