Chesney trades cowboy hat for reporter’s hat with Bob Marley’s Wailers
Chesney trades cowboy hat for reporter’s hat with Bob Marley’s Wailers
East Tennessee would seem an unlikely place to spawn Bob Marley aficionados. No beach, no tides, and the accent is quite dissimilar from what you’d hear in Jamaica.
And yet Kenny Chesney heard Marley’s music as a young East Tennessean and latched on tightly. Chesney recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Everybody Wants To Go to Heaven,” a song that featured backing from Marley’s old compadres, The Wailers. Chesney and The Wailers will also perform together on the CMA Music Awards on Wednesday.