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Normally, when Kenny Chesney\u2019s in the studio, there are multiple guitarists, a monster drummer and a whole lot of great songs. Not this summer. Just songwriter\/superstar and a mic hit Blackbird Studios to capture an East Tennessee kid with a headful of wonder\u2019s journey through a Nashville that was built on creative types at all levels seeking his fate.<\/p>\n
From catching a spark playing for tips at various bars, as well as traveling to Russia with the East Tennessee State Bluegrass Band during college to then playing a destitute Lower Broadway, where the Ryman was on the verge of being torn down and characters populated the seedy bars, and being signed to a publishing deal at Acuff Rose, home to Hank Williams Sr. and Dean Dillon, it\u2019s the power of curiosity to drive someone with nothing but a hunger to write and sing songs. It\u2019s also an homage to perseverance when the going is more than rough, the ability to find laughter in the cracks and a will to keep going.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny,\u201d marvels the man whose stadium tours have become a rite of summer, \u201cwhen you\u2019re living it, it\u2019s 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 \u2018put a smile on it.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt takes a lot longer than I thought to record an audiobook, or maybe it\u2019s just I would get lost in seeing all the people and places along the way. In a way, it\u2019s what I did with my summer vacation: visit all these adventures I\u2019ve had, because when I started to hear the stories, I felt like I was living them all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether making unexpected music in Jamaica, the Kremlin, New England and Cabo San Lucas, drifting across the waters of the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Chesney will engage with a coterie of singular folks, friends and inspirations, as he embraces the unabashed joy of being alive. \u201cThinking about the moments, reading the stories, it all got very real for me \u2013 the blessings of so much wisdom people gave me and unthinkable things I got to do. I was here at an amazing time, got to experience a Nashville closer to Willie Nelson or George Jones when they were trying to make it happen \u2013 and I got to live this crazy dream alongside so many heroes, make great friends. Hearing it come out of my mouth, it\u2019s a lot to take in; I almost wouldn\u2019t believe it if I hadn\u2019t been there.\u201d<\/p>\n
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. From the road, stage quiet moments and unthinkable thrills, it\u2019s a trip for anyone who\u2019s ever wondered what the voyage to No Shoes Nation might be like.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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