Kenny Chesney Adds Audio To Upcoming Memoir ‘Heart Life Music’
Kenny Chesney. Photo: Courtesy of Heart Life Music
Kenny Chesney recently went back into the studio, not to make new music this time, but to record the audio version of his upcoming new memoir, Heart Life Music, due out in November.
The new audio version of Chesney’s life story, (which was written with longtime friend and collaborator Holly Gleason), is being recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, and Chesney is strolling down memory lane once again as he reads through all of the adventures and experiences of his winding career.
“It’s funny,” marvels Chesney, “when you’re living it, it’s being in the moment. When we were writing it, it was looking back and really striving to get it right. But now, reading it, all of these stories become real again. I can see everybody, from the Turf and the Wheel, to (Capricorn Records founders) Phil Walden with all that charisma and (legendary producer) Barry Beckett telling me to ‘put a smile on it.’
“It takes a lot longer than I thought to record an audio book, or maybe it’s just I would get lost in seeing all the people and places along the way,” he continues. “In a way, it’s what I did with my summer vacation: visit all these adventures I’ve had, because when I started to hear the stories, I felt like I was living them all over again.”
