Kenny Chesney‘s about to add book author to his resume.
The “I Go Back” hitmaker is releasing his first book, Heart Life Music, on Nov. 4.
“This is not my memoir, but something far better,” Kenny says in a statement. “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,” he adds.
Heart Life Music will chronicle the East Tennessee native’s life, upbringing, rise to stardom, move to Nashville, music career and more.
“I always said I'd never write a book. 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,” says Kenny, who co-wrote the book with acclaimed author Holly Gleason.
“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,” he adds. “So, for everyone in No Shoes Nation, I realized: you deserved to share the magic.”
Heart Life Music is available for preorder now.
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