{"id":42500,"date":"2025-01-30T05:45:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=42500"},"modified":"2025-01-30T05:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:07:22","slug":"kenny-chesney-had-to-kick-taylor-swift-off-his-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/01\/kenny-chesney-had-to-kick-taylor-swift-off-his-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney Had To Kick Taylor Swift Off His Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Kenny Chesney recounted a story about his planned tour with Taylor Swift in her early days that never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny said that Swift was set to open for him back when she was a rising 17-year-old country singer, but because the tour was sponsored by a beer company, Swift couldn\u2019t take part because she was a minor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I had to call Taylor personally and tell her she couldn\u2019t go on tour with me, which now seems absurd, right?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chesney felt bad because she was going to lose some money, so he personally wrote Swift a check to make up for it.<\/p>\n<p>Later that year, both singers were nominated for CMA Entertainer of the Year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, she won, so backstage I went up to her and gave her a big hug. I said, &#8216;Congratulations but give me my money back.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DE6YAorOORp\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Kenny Chesney recounted a story about his planned tour with Taylor Swift in her early days that never materialized.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":40179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,167,250,130],"class_list":["post-42500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-tonight-show"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 02:28:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/01\/kenny-chesney-had-to-kick-taylor-swift-off-his-tour\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42501,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500\/revisions\/42501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}