Kenny Chesney Shares A Love Letter To The Faithful In His First Book ‘Heart*Life*Music’
Kenny Chesney. Photo: Danny Clinch
Kenny Chesney is sharing glimpses from his journey in his first book, HEART*LIFE*MUSIC, with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, due out Nov. 4.
The story follows the superstar’s path from small town East Tennessee dreamer to commanding huge stages across the country as he captures the sparks of creativity, ventures to places long gone, makes music in Jamaica, the Kremlin, New England and Cabo San Lucas, drifts across the waters of the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and encounters and collaborates with heroes.
“This is not my memoir,” cautions Chesney, “but something far better. It is almost a love letter to people who shaped and inspired me, the fans who’ve been there from tiny bars, radio stations who believed when nobody else did, a team who just kept coming back, legends who gave me wisdom and opportunities and all the friends who’ve been there along the way. To me, that’s where the music came from – and this is the story of how it turned into the soundtrack for the way No Shoes Nation lives their lives, too.
“I always said I’d never write a book,” he adds. “Too many things happened almost to be believed, let alone lived, but I realized with the world moving in such fast forward motion, too much of what made Nashville, the music business and our lives great would be lost to the churn of the next click. To have been in a room as a kid writing with Dean Dillon, have Sean Payton call an NFL press conference to announce he’s drafting me to the Saints, be in Tuff Gong Studios with Aston “Family Man” Barrett and Alvin “Seeco” Patterson or on a private plane with George Jones after opening for him defies logic. So, for everyone in No Shoes Nation, I realized: you deserved to share the magic.”
Written with longtime friend and collaborator Holly Gleason, HEART*LIFE*MUSIC celebrates the life and rise of a man whose songs have set the tone and whose shows have anchored a world without borders for the last quarter century.
