Nation famous person Kenny Chesney will launch his first e-book, HEART*LIFE*MUSIC, with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Nov. 4, 2025. The freewheeling tackle the famous person’s journey from small city East Tennessee dreamer to commanding the biggest levels throughout the nation will seize the sparks of creativity, enterprise to locations lengthy gone, make surprising music in Jamaica, the Kremlin, New England and Cabo San Lucas, drift throughout the waters of the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, encounter and collaborate with heroes, have interaction with a coterie of singular of us, buddies and inspirations, and at all times discover the enjoyment of being unabashedly alive.
Raised largely by a single mom and prolonged household, Chesney’s life was constructed on sports activities, church, group – and the music he discovered in all places. A present of a guitar his freshman 12 months and the resonance of East Tennessee State College’s Outdated Time Music and Bluegrass program sparked a ardour nobody noticed coming. From taking part in for tricks to attempting to get a foot within the door, HEART*LIFE*MUSIC is a postcard from a Nashville that now not exists: the place songwriters outline life, characters encourage younger dreamers and a tenacious 20-something confronted unimaginable odds and obstacles earlier than beginning to discover a glimmer of success.
“This isn’t my memoir,” Chesney cautions, “however one thing much better. It’s nearly a love letter to individuals who formed and impressed me, the followers who’ve been there from tiny bars, radio stations who believed when no person else did, a crew who simply stored coming again, legends who gave me knowledge and alternatives and all the chums who’ve been there alongside the way in which. To me, that’s the place the music got here from – and that is the story of the way it was the soundtrack for the way in which No Sneakers Nation lives their lives, too.”
9 No. 1 all-genre Billboard High 200 Album debuts, 17 No. 1 Nation Album debuts, 8.6 billion on-demand audio streams and over 1 billion on-demand video streams is loads of music made, performed and ingested by a fan-base that Selection proclaims “a concertgoing group rivaled maybe solely by Parrotheads and Deadheads.” Transferring at what appeared sooner than the velocity of sound, Chesney for probably the most half eschewed superstar to maintain his deal with the folks; with songs that might resonate with them and a present that might not solely give each little bit of power he and his band had, however present an area for No Sneakers Nation to converge, have enjoyable, make new buddies and revel within the glory of being who they have been.
“I at all times mentioned I’d by no means write a e-book,” he marvels. “Too many issues occurred nearly to be believed, not to mention lived, however I spotted with the world transferring in such quick ahead movement, an excessive amount of of what made Nashville, the music enterprise and our lives nice could be misplaced to the churn of the following click on. To have been in a room as a child writing with Dean Dillon, have Sean Payton name an NFL press convention to announce he’s drafting me to the Saints, be in Tuff Gong Studios with Aston “Household Man” Barrett and Alvin “Seeco” Patterson or on a personal airplane with George Jones after opening for him defies logic. So, for everybody in No Sneakers Nation, I spotted: you deserved to share the magic.”
Written with longtime pal and collaborator Holly Gleason, who has has appeared in Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Instances, New York Instances and lots of others, HEART*LIFE*MUSIC celebrates the life and rise of a person whose songs have set the tone and whose reveals have anchored a world with out borders for the final quarter century. From the highway, stage, quiet moments and unthinkable thrills, it’s a e-book for anybody who’s ever questioned what the journey to No Sneakers Nation may be like.
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