Questions & set lists from McChesney at Target Field

Kenny Chesney/ Star Tribune photo by Marlin Levison

Questions I'm asking after Sunday's Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw Brothers of the Sun concert at Target Field...

How could you ask for a better day and night, weather-wise?

How good was the set up? Excellent sound (the echo-y vibe enhanced McGraw's less-than-stellar voice and Chesney's stuff was crystal clear). Excellent giant live video onstage (with smaller monitors all over the stands and stadium). Pretty good signage and flow of people.

How great was the people watching? Better than the state fair.

Why didn't they sell Brothers of the Sun Target Field shirts with both Chesney and McGraw's names on them? There was one with McGraw and one with Chesney but none with McChesney.

Why did so few people on the field buy new T-shirts for the event or any of the stars?

Why did Chesney wallow in so many serious ballads? Maybe because he missed his usual "You and Tequila" slot.

Did Chesney not introduce his fiddler Nick Hoffman, who is from Anoka?

Did McGraw do the "Magic Mike" workout to prepare for this tour?

Why did as many women wear cowgirl boots as wore flip flops?

Which was the bigger surprise for me in the press box: Seeing Tony Oliva broadcasting the Twins-Rangers game in Spanish (while watching it on TV) or seeing Sid Hartman?

When's the next concert at Target Field?

And when is Bruce Springsteen, who is playing lots of stadiums this summer, coming to the Twin Cities? No, those two questions aren't exactly related.

Set list for McGraw:
Felt Good on My Lips/ For a Little While/ Down on the Farm/ Real Good Man/ Last Dollar (Fly Away)/ Unbroken/ Everywhere/ Where the Green Grass Grows/ Mexicoma (new song with a Paul Revere & the Raiders 1960s pop vibe and accordion and slide guitar)/ All I Want Is a Life/ Just to See You Smile/ Better Than I Used To Be/ Let It Go/ How Bad Do You Want It/ Sing Me Home/ Something Like That/ Southern Voice/ Live Like You Were Dying ENCORE Cowboy in Me/ I Like It I Love It (with an Adele intro)/ Truck Yeah (new number)

Set list for Chesney:
Beer in Mexico/ Keg in the Closet/ Summertime/ Reality/ Live Those Songs/ No Shoes No Shirt No Problems/ What I Need To Do/ I Go Back/ Come Over/ Anything But Mine/ There Goes My Life/ Where I Come From/ Living in Fast Forward/ Young / Somewhere with You/ Never Wanted Nothing More/ On the Coast of Somewhere Beautiful/ Out Last Night/ When the Sun Goes Down/ Don't Happen Twice/ The Boys of Fall ENCORE w McGraw Feel Like a Rock Star/ She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy/ Indian Outlaw / Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)

Tim McGraw/ Star Tribune photo by Marlin Levison