Scheduled for October in Nashville, 2025 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees include contemporary musician Kenny Chesney, and the legendary June Carter Cash.
According to the now 57-year old Chesney, it’s something he never expected to happen to him according to PEOPLE who quoted him as as saying “I promise you, I did not see this coming.”
At the Hall of Fame rotunda, the superstar singer/songwriter went on to recall a poignant moment when he was young when he felt like a “fire lit” inside him after seeing Hall of Famers Alabama perform, adding:
“I went with my mom and my stepfather to a field about 10 miles from my house to see this group, Alabama, that was going to play” “I couldn’t believe they were going to play just right down the road from my house … Something happened to me that night. There was a fire lit. Something happened in my soul that set me on this path.” “If you’d have told that kid that night … that this [the Hall of Fame] was going to happen, I would’ve told you that you were crazy.”
June Carter Cash, who passed away in 2003, at the age of 74, will be posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame 45 years after her husband, the late great Johnny Cash.
June’s children Carlene Carter (69,) and John Carter Cash (55,) admitted to being surprised that their mother hadn’t been inducted already with her son stating “Everyone’s surprised when they find out that she wasn’t in.” “She may not have had the hits, but she touched so many people. She did so much with music.”
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Author: Al Denté
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