{"id":33993,"date":"2025-12-05T05:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2025\/12\/kenny-chesney-said-jimmy-buffetts-ashes-got-smuggled-into-his-rock-and-roll-hall-tribute\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T08:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:23:34","slug":"kenny-chesney-said-jimmy-buffetts-ashes-got-smuggled-into-his-rock-and-roll-hall-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/kenny-chesney-said-jimmy-buffetts-ashes-got-smuggled-into-his-rock-and-roll-hall-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Chesney Said Jimmy Buffett&#8217;s Ashes Got Smuggled Into His Rock And Roll Hall Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Chesney\u00a0just shared a detail about his tribute to\u00a0Jimmy Buffett\u00a0at the 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Jimmy was actually on stage with them, at least in spirit. \u00a0Jimmy passed away in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny said that while they were backstage,\u00a0Mac McAnally\u00a0showed him a small urn that he was hiding inside his coat pocket.\u00a0And they were Jimmy&#8217;s ashes, given to him by Jimmy&#8217;s daughter Savannah.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny then performed\u00a0&#8220;Come Monday&#8221;\u00a0with\u00a0James Taylor, and Mac.\u00a0 Before they sang, James Taylor told the crowd, &#8220;We&#8217;re three old friends of Jimmy Buffett, and we miss him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kenny has talked a lot about how much Jimmy meant to him. \u00a0So, it&#8217;s awesome to know that even after he passed, Jimmy still found a way to join the party.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/440m8_n-3Ak\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Buffett tribute","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":19191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[386,602,5432,2428],"class_list":["post-33993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jimmy-buffett","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-mac-mcanally","tag-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:24:47","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\/12\/kenny-chesney-said-jimmy-buffetts-ashes-got-smuggled-into-his-rock-and-roll-hall-tribute\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993","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=33993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33997,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33993\/revisions\/33997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}