Kenny Chesney scores on talent at Soldier Field  June 15,
2009|By Alison Bonaguro, SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE  It took about
an hour. Then, after about 10 songs, it all became perfectly
clear. Kenny Chesney can sing.  His Saturday show at Soldier
Field was about as finely tuned and elaborate and slick as they
come. But when Chesney walked out to the edge of the stage to
sing his 1996 simple love song "Me and You," backed by just his
keyboard and sax players, it gave the near-capacity crowd a
glimpse into the solid singer behind all the craziness: the
massive band, the bras on the microphone, the drunks in the
audience, the dancing in the aisles, the tailgating, the local
athletes onstage (Jay Cutler and Greg Olsen of the Bears, the
Cubs' Ryan Dempster).  That was all there, but more important,
so was Chesney's talent for singing stories about good times and
bad. He did it with his own brand of country baritone. One with
less twang and more heart. But it was that one old song that
made it easy to see past the frat