Tennessee O'Neal

Tennessee O'Neil is the most sensitive of the Country Bears band. He plays the One String Thing and is a soulful singer and dynamic force on the stage. Off stage, he's an emotional wreck. He quit the band when the love of his life Trixie left him. He then tried to be a marriage councelor...but he broke down in heaving sobs during his sessions with clients. Although he agreed to rejoin the band for Beary, his anxiety attacks about seeing Trixie again nearly killed him. Don Henley is Tennessee's singing voice when Tennessee and Trixie are reunited on stage singing their love duet.

Julianne Buescher puppeteered Tennessee's face and laid down the original vocal track, and Jody St. Michael was the suit performer.