Mic Check: The Poets & Pirates Tour at Cleveland Browns Stadium on Saturday

By Michael Gallucci on Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:41 am

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Chesney: "Howdy, ma'am."

Kenny Chesney gets top billing at Saturday’s big country show at Browns Stadium. No surprise here – dude has sold, like, a gazillion records this decade. While he keeps inching closer and closer to Jimmy Buffett’s margarita-soaked throne with his island-inflected twang, he’s at least making solid records for people who dream of seven-day weekends. Gary Allan, LeAnn Rimes, Keith Urban, and, for some reason, Sammy Hagar join Chesney on the Poets & Pirates Tour, pretty much hitting every demographic: something for fans of American Idol-style singing (Rimes), something for the ladies (Urban), something for folks who still think it’s 1985 (Hagar), and something for people who like their country with some depth (Allan) ...