Chesney's weekend begin in Bama

Just a few hours until in Oak Mountain Amphitheater show South of Birmingham...then he heads West for Louisiana and Arkansas...Then the re-set rain show...we got this from the KC bunch today:

Dallas: It's not every day an artist gets to play to a crowd in a rainstorm of near-Biblical proportions - and even less likely that the event would occur at a stadium. But for Kenny Chesney, who found himself onstage during a massive downpour at his Corona Extra-sponsored Sun City Carnival Tour's first stadium show at the Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, TX, there was something about the event that struck a resonant chord.

“When the fans saw that I was gonna come out there with them, they came forward to us, too,” Chesney says of the night. “They wanted it as bad as we did… to share that moment, the songs, the whole thing… and I can't tell you what that feeling was like, but I can tell you, I'll never forget it. It's part of the reason I want to go back and do it again: because I wanna finish what we started.”

And even though Chesney had completed almost two-thirds of his 75 minute set, it's not about fulfilling contractual obligation - which had more than happened -- but realizing the moment that had been so special between him and a capacity crowd who'd hung in there through “the worst weather I've ever played in ever… since I hit the road in 1993” that made him want to return. After consulting with his team and working through details and logistics at a lightning pace, the man who's a 4-straight Academy of Country Music and 4-time and current Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year will return to Dallas for a very special show May 17th to say thank you to those fans for being part of an unforgettable night.

To mark that event, Chesney, who lost several hundred thousand dollars of equipment in the storm and is paying the costs of restaging the show, created something tangible fans can remember that night with. A special t-shirt will be available at the Pizza Hut Park show.

“When I saw the pictures of us onstage, it was pretty powerful in terms of the image,” says the man who sang for almost 50 minutes. “And looking at all of them, thinking about standing onstage with all those fans who stayed right up there with us and singing 'There's Something Sexy About The Rain' - and it really felt like that in spite of the downpour -

w do we go about giving them something that'll capture that? Take them back to the moment?'”“When I saw the pictures of us onstage, it was pretty powerful in terms of the image,” says the man who sang for almost 50 minutes. “And looking at all of them, thinking about standing onstage with all those fans who stayed right up there with us and singing 'There's Something Sexy About The Rain' - and it really felt like that in spite of the downpour - I could totally feel it again.
The t-shirt is basic black and features one of the photos of Chesney in the storm. It will be imprinted with the words “There's Something Sexy About The Rain,” the date of the show and the city.
“It's not like there's a blueprint or a given thing that you do for something like this… but when I was growing up if you saw someone in a t-shirt from a show you were at, you'd know who that person was in a way, you'd sorta nod cause you'd been there, you'd shared that. Well, I can't think of anything that would be more of a bond than standing there in that rain, listening to the music - so for the people at the Dallas show, this shirt's for you.”
Details for ticket swapping are available at www.kennychesney.com. Limited GA tickets remain - but are going quickly.