“She Has an Unbelievable Personality”: Kenny Chesney Shares Heartfelt Tribute to Megan Moroney

During his new interview on Bobby Bones’ BobbyCast podcast, Kenny Chesney reflects on his career so far, his Sphere Las Vegas shows and his friendship with Megan Moroney.

In the first episode to be made available on Netflix, Chesney joins much-loved radio personality Bones for an in-depth discussion, with the conversation turning to Moroney when Bones asks Chesney if there are any songs he doesn't like performing.

After pausing, the ‘No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems’ hitmaker admits that he got tired of playing his tongue-in-cheek ‘90s anthem, ‘She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy’, before Moroney convinced him to add it back into his setlist, “There was a moment that I got really sick of ‘Tractor’. I was like, ‘If I don't have to sing Tractor anymore, it's not going to hurt my feelings’. But then Megan Moroney comes out on the road with us. She's out there for a couple of weekends and she goes, ‘Why are you not doing ‘Tractor’? I want to hear ‘Tractor’’. She goes, ‘Everybody out there wants to hear ‘Tractor’...I said, ‘Okay, well, you're going to come up and sing it with me’. She goes, ‘Deal’. Then I did it and she was right. They go crazy”.

After becoming a nightly tradition, this ultimately led, of course, to the now-iconic prank that Moroney pulled on tour, when she emerged for ’She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy’ while riding on a mini green tractor and dressed head-to-toe as Chesney.

It paved the way for a blossoming friendship, with Chesney and Moroney teaming up for the electrifying, uplifting collaboration, ‘You Had To Be There’, the following year. The track was nominated for the 2025 CMA Award for Musical Event of the Year, with Moroney endearingly penning it as a Christmas present for Chesney.

Chesney recalls how, if it hadn't been for Moroney's input, he would've left ‘She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy’ out of his live show for the foreseeable future, “It's like, ‘Okay, me, mentally, I'm past it, but it will forever be there’. That's when she and I started to become really good friends. That's how I started playing Tractor again”, with the Knoxville native joking, “It was because Megan more or less forced it on me”.

Chesney has become a mentor of sorts for Moroney as she continues to ascend into one of the leading figures in modern country music, with the two artists regularly sharing candid, heartwarming online exchanges and hanging out in the islands.

The ‘Beer in Mexico’ crooner pays tribute to Moroney's kindness and artistry, “I've had the luxury of being around her now for a couple of years and getting to know her, and she has a very unique work ethic. She has a very unique song sense. She has an unbelievable personality. She has an unbelievable sense of humor...and not everybody [gets to see that]...You have to really get to know her and peel the onion back to see how thoughtful she is. I mean, she's just an amazing human being”.

The country titan reflects on Moroney's unthinkable full-circle journey from being up in the Gods as a fan at one of Chesney's shows, to then performing on-stage together as part of the latter's Sun Goes Down stadium tour, “There's a work ethic in there that early on I recognized...and that's how we became really good friends out there, you know? And so over the course of the 2024 summer tour, Megan and I became very close...[My band and I] played the Atlanta Falcons football stadium in 2018, and she was a college kid up in the 300 section with her friends. Now, think about how powerful the universe is. If you would have told me on stage that night that you're going to become really great friends with a person up there, I would have told you that you were crazy. But that happened”.

Chesney warmly concludes that he notices a rare passion in Moroney that he had during a pivotal period in his career, before releasing his seminal No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems album, “To see what's happening to her and to see her take it and run with it...I told you earlier that my brain was on fire. I recognized that because her brain is completely on fire with creating music and giving her audience positive energy and love. It's been really interesting to see what happened to us. It's happening to one of your friends, and I get to watch it from the side of the stage”.

We love seeing this sense of fond camaraderie and mutual support, particularly as the contemporary country music landscape is often framed as increasingly fractured and divided. At a time when many male country artists and festival organisers still flood their tour bills and line-ups with men, it's great to see Chesney showing love to one of the most exciting female voices in the space. Although it doesn't look like ‘You Had To Be There’ will be on Moroney's highly anticipated new album, Cloud 9, which arrives on February 20th 2026, we're hoping that we can look forward to plenty more stellar collaborations between these two trailblazers.

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