{"id":33533,"date":"2025-10-22T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33533"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:22:05","slug":"kenny-chesney-gets-real-during-induction-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/kenny-chesney-gets-real-during-induction-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney Gets Real During Induction Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Chesney<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u00a0<\/span>June Carter Cash<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and\u00a0<\/span>Tony Brown<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0were all officially inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During Kenny&#8217;s speech, he brought up a conversation he had with\u00a0<\/span>Megan Moroney<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0after a concert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She asked him if he ever let himself feel accomplished, and Kenny said that until that night, he really hadn&#8217;t, but once he saw himself surrounded by all of his heroes in the Country Hall&#8217;s rotunda, he finally felt a sense of accomplishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then he closed his speech out with a bit of wisdom from his early touring days with\u00a0<\/span>Alabama<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One time, Kenny was complaining about being tired, so\u00a0<\/span>Teddy Gentry<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0told him, &#8220;Wait until you&#8217;ve been out here 42 years . . . then you can be tired.&#8221;\u00a0 Kenny laughed and said, &#8220;He was right.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQCUrmbjgov\/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<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQCZnYMDqb5\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country Music Hall of Fame","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[528,5409,602,4672,6172],"class_list":["post-33533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-country-music-hall-of-fame","tag-june-carter-cash","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-megan-moroney","tag-tony-brown"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 14:06:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/kenny-chesney-gets-real-during-induction-speech\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33539,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33533\/revisions\/33539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}