“NSR…Listen & You May Learn”
“Random Facts From No Shoes Radio”
We know most of you are BIG fans of No Shoes Radio (www.noshoesradio.com), like we are. Have you realized the amazing education you can get from listening to this fantastic station? It’s true, if you pay attention to the clips the station plays between the songs, you can pick up interesting little factoids. Below are just 50 of the factoids we have learned, but there are a lot more. What factoids have you learned from listening to NSR?
1. It feels like winning the lottery when the NSR picture of the day is Kenny shirtless.
2. Kenny has drunk ADD.
3. Kenny likes Key Lime Pie simply for its texture.
4. Joanna Kerns has been listening to Kenny since she was Kirk’s mom on “Growing Pains.”
5. Kenny needs a personal lime carrier.
6. Claudette is NOT the name of the pirate mannequin (according to Tambo) in the Vibe Room.
7. You can carry said mannequin down A1A, with a group of friends, and not get arrested.
8. Bailey is terrified of heights.
9. Hobby likes to take it to the woodshed.
10. According to Grace Potter, Kenny is a bad, bad, BAD boy.
11. How to properly do a Jello shot, thanks to Jon.
12. After Billy Currington wanted to play basketball barefoot, Kenny bought him a pair of shoes and signed them on the “Goin’ Coastal” tour.
13. Corona likes redundancy.
14. Cicadas come out in Tennessee once every 13 years.
15. To get a drunk person to sing a Kenny Chesney song, ask them their favorite song followed by, “How does that go?”
16. Willie Nelson has done a duet with EVERYBODY.
17. No Shoes Radio really is a cultured station.
18. Kenny’s bus caught on fire while he was on it talking to Vince Vaughn and Brett Favre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana 15 minutes before he was due to go onstage.
19. Miranda Lambert’s favorite Kenny song is “The Tin Man.”
20. The “Goin’ Coastal” tour really gained momentum at the Phoenix show, which had the loudest crowd of the tour.
21. Kenny likes to take naps right before Meet & Greets.
22. Zac Brown Band thinks Kenny’s fan base is rabid.
23. Kenny’s favorite song off ZBB’s debut album is “Free.”
24. Kenny likes to drunk-dial songwriters in the middle of the night with song ideas.
25. Jon is a huge Bryan Adams fan.
26. Kenny is willing to grow a mullet for Miranda Lambert.
27. Kenny was inspired to write “Island Boy” based on the story of his friends who moved from New England to the islands.
28. You can easily distract Tambo if you can make realistic horse sounds.
29. Girls named “Piper” are spunky and there’s not many of them around.
30. Kenny and Brett James wrote “Out Last Night” in a couple hours, after a REALLY good night out.
31. Kenny and the band have played until someone passed out.
32. Tambo is from Syracuse, NY.
33. Kenny forgot the words to one of his songs at the Tampa show and he’ll never forget it, even if he’s 80-years-old with Alzheimer’s.
34. Kenny caught Marley the Marlin himself the same day his bus driver died.
35. Kenny gets an “A” for effort when it comes to rapping and speaking Spanish.
36. Billy Currington can climb a palm tree.
37. Kenny wrote “Beer In Mexico” after playing at Sammy Hagar’s birthday party.
38. Kenny doesn’t “usually” drink before a show, but he did drink before his show in Orange Beach, Alabama on the “Goin’ Coastal” tour.
39. Kenny’s drummer, Sean Paddock, hates the limelight – actually, he hates everything.
40. Wyatt Beard does a tender version of Air Supply’s “I’m All Out Of Love,” which Nick Hoffman doesn’t know the words to.
41.Wyatt wrote a parody of “Summertime” called “It’s Suppertime” and NSR still won’t play it.
42. Tambo knows a lot of random trivia and factoids.
43. We shouldn’t freak out if we see Tambo because he’s “just a bum with a microphone.” (Tambo’s words)
44. Kenny has admittedly had a “10 With A 2” experience.
45. Band members, Clayton Mitchell and Nick Hoffman, do an awesome cover of “Pancho and Lefty.”
46. “Why Don’t We Get Drunk And Screw” is Kenny’s favorite love song.
47. Kenny and Uncle Kracker have a million inside jokes.
48. Buzz listens to NSR.
49. Kenny breaks the rules when it comes to cowboy hat etiquette.
50. Kenny and Kid Rock recorded their cover of “Luckenbach, Texas” at 4 am at Kid Rock’s house in Detroit, MI.