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Christmas guitar started Kenny Chesney’s country rise
Jel Chesney recounts how a Christmas gift guitar redirected Kenny Chesney from a university student to a country star. From early gigs in East Tennessee to days parking cars in Nashville, his songs and albums rose, with Me and You yielding his highest charting single. Slim Whitman cameo teased in Mars Attacks.
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You
Kenny Chesney
Billboard
Santa Claus
Kenny
Luttrell
Penn
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City
Soviet Union
Nashville
Opryland Music Group
Confederate Railroad
Woody Lee
BNA Records
Slim Whitman