{"id":46477,"date":"2015-06-03T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=46477"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T13:00:20","slug":"kenny-chesney-totally-crushes-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/03\/kenny-chesney-totally-crushes-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney Totally \u201cCrushes\u201d Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pittsburg\"Kenny Chesney Totally \u201cCrushes\u201d Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The advance coverage began almost two weeks prior in anticipation of Kenny Chesney\u2019s<\/a> 8th<\/sup> sold-out appearance at Heinz Field. The No Shoes Nation navy, eventually numbering well over 200 boats, began dropping anchor Tuesday evening\u2026 Local filmmakers even created a \u201cJurassic World\u201d teaser clip, featuring the country star towering over the iconic football field, which went viral.<\/p>\n

\"KennyBy the time, the time the man the Wall Street Journal<\/em> deemed \u201cThe King of the Road\u201d hit the stage at 9:11 Saturday night, Pittsburgh was primed and ready to rock. With attendance of 55,381, Chesney broke his own attendance record<\/em> \u2013 set in 2007 at just over 54,000. So much erroneous information has been reported around the venue, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em><\/a> addresses the discrepancies with a May 25 Pop Noise column.<\/p>\n

Not that any of it mattered to the 8-time Entertainer of the Year. Following his New Orleans funeral\/voodoo-themed \u201cBig Revival\u201d opening film and the \u201cJurassic World\u201d online clip, Chesney took to the sky, leaning into \u201cReality\u201d as he was transported over the fans\u2019 heads on a high wire. His hard-hitting, almost two-hour set didn\u2019t slow down for a moment the entire night.<\/p>\n

The Post-Gazette<\/em> wrote Chesney \u201clet loose on stage, he was in constant motion with rousing sing-along faves like \u2018Beer in Mexico,\u2019 \u2018Keg In The Closet\u2019 and \u2018Summertime\u2019 and well-received new ones \u2018Til It\u2019s Gone\u2019 and \u2018American Kids.\u2019 His white-hot Nashville band got way more wattage than the openers to fill the stadium with screaming guitars and crushing beats.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHeinz Field was the first wave of NFL Stadiums I played after (Knoxville\u2019s) Neyland Stadium. The Pittsburgh fans have so much heart, grit and muscle, they almost shove you off the stage,\u201d Chesney says of his perennial tour stop where the Three Rivers meet. \u201cWe\u2019ve had some amazing shows this year, so I knew we were ready and hungry for Pittsburgh.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"KennyChesney003\"As a warm-up, the high-energy songwriter\/performer worked out with many of the Steelers on Friday \u2013 and had several team members as his guest at Saturday\u2019s show. After a heartfelt tribute to the Rooney Family, who own the storied team, then launched into his all-heart high school football homage \u201cBoys of Fall,\u201d including having legendary player Ben Roethlisberger come up to help him present the evening\u2019s helmet.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were ready, the No Shoes Nation was readier,\u201d Chesney said immediately after his sweat-soaked show. \u201cThey throw it at us, and it drives us even further. Whatever they give, we wanna give back, and man, that was some night out there. I got to do \u2018When I See This Bar\u2019 with Eric Church \u2013 and that\u2019s always special because it says everything about what people like the No Shoes Nation find in the music. Even that horrible storm that had trees down didn\u2019t blunt their enthusiasm in any<\/em> way. It was crazy in Heinz Field.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kicking off the Corona Light-sponsored The Big Revival 2015 Tour with two sold-out shows in Nashville, the velocity of this 20-stadium 55-city trek has not slowed. With The Dallas Morning News<\/em> proclaiming,<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo parts Jagger, one part Bruce Springsteen and one part Billy Graham\u201d after his unrelenting AT&T Texas Stadium show, Chicago\u2019s Soldier Field needs to get ready for Saturday\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Posted by Country Girl cmtt<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenny Chesney Totally \u201cCrushes\u201d Pittsburgh The advance coverage began almost two weeks prior in anticipation of Kenny Chesney\u2019s 8th sold-out appearance at Heinz Field. The No Shoes Nation navy, eventually numbering well over 200 boats, began dropping anchor Tuesday evening\u2026 Local filmmakers even created a \u201cJurassic World\u201d teaser clip, featuring the country star towering over the iconic football field, which went viral. By the time, the time the man the Wall Street Journal deemed \u201cThe King of the Road\u201d hit the stage at 9:11 Saturday night, Pittsburgh was primed and<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}