Kevin's most recent digs at Kenny Chesney reminds me of something. I was watching something on CMT about county musicians fashion accesories (sad, but true). They talked about Chesney's shell necklace that he apparently always wears. They went on to talk about Chesney more generally and suggesting that he's on his way to becoming a beach music icon in the same vein as Jimmy Buffet.

My family annually takes a trip to Pensacola, Florida. Lovely beaches, lovely town. There are a lot of great restaurants there and most of them have a live act in the waiting area throughout most of the evening. They are invariably cover artists with Hawaiian shifts that play Brown-Eyed Girl every other song and a bunch of other laid-back oldie beach music. They play a lot of Jimmy Buffet. A lot.

Heaven help us all if my family keeps the tradition alive and I drag my future wife and kids out to Pensacola to hear one Kenny Chesney cover artist after another.

[shudder]