And by that I don’t mean he talks to his Gibson guitar. I mean that he talked with a writer at the instrument company. They talk crossover appeal (”You can’t play a stadium without having a lot of crossover appeal”), what might be next (”I’m still going to make records with a lot of guitars, but I do want to make an acoustic record someday”) and what it was like working with Willie Nelson (”That whole experience with Willie was like a big shot of B-12″). It’s a pretty nice little story, but then he has to go and dis Garth. In a question about whether he’d ever do something like Garth Brooks did with his short-lived Chris Gaines alter ego , Chesney said, “God, no. If I make a record, it will have my name on it. I’m not going to wear a wig, and I’m not going to use a fake name.”

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