{"id":2028310,"date":"2025-09-17T07:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2028310"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:08:30","slug":"kenny-kicks-off-heart-life-music-tour-w-book-events-in-two-very-special-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kenny-kicks-off-heart-life-music-tour-w-book-events-in-two-very-special-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Kicks Off HEART LIFE MUSIC Tour w Book Events in Two Very Special Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n With the audio book underway, the final edits complete and the start of fall ahead, Country Music Hall of Fame 2025 electee Kenny Chesney knew he wanted to do something very special to launch his upcoming\u00a0Heart Life Music<\/em>. Tracing the path of a pretty regular kid living well beyond the lights of Knoxville, Tennessee, he decided to kick off his book tour at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, where his dream truly took wing, with a special event at the ETSU Martin Center for the Arts on Nov. 1 at 3pm.
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\u201cHaving looked at my life in ways I never thought of,\u201d says the man\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0called \u201cthe King of the Road\u201d about the process, \u201cI realized: I\u2019ve always loved sports, music and the sea. But the idea I\u2019d chase this dream came together in Johnson City, trying to learn Doc Watson picking from Jack Tottle, playing Quarterbacks and Chuckey\u2019s, and going to Russia with East Tennessee State University\u2019s Bluegrass Band.
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\u201cFor me, going back to East Tennessee State University where all of this began was the only way to kick this book tour off. Hopefully, someone in the audience who\u2019s wondering about their own dream might find what they need to get serious about whatever it is they\u2019re chasing.\u201d
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And if he\u2019s leaning into his heart, it stands to reason that Chesney would hit Boston the next day. With his legendary Gillette Stadium shows, including a three-day run in 2024, No Shoes Nation was named in 2012 and he passed a million fans in 2018, as well as the friends he\u2019s made from the region over the years, the 8-time Entertainer of the Year will appear at Back Bay Events Center Nov. 2 at 7pm.
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\u201cWhether the friends I made in the islands long before this journey kicked into gear, Ginny Brophy who welcomed a kid with nothing going on at WKLB, the crazy fun with Grace Potter, sailing and more with Ethel Kennedy around the Nantucket Sound, conversations with the\u00a0Globe<\/em>\u2019s Steve Morse or Super Bowls with Robert Kraft and his organization, there\u2019s been something about the people of New England that recognizes the kid from East Tennessee in me. I like to say, \u2018They believe me,\u2019 but I think it\u2019s more they\u00a0know<\/em>\u00a0the same grit and passion that\u2019s driven me and my team all these years.
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\u201cI know these are intimate events,\u201d Chesney continues. \u201cBut I want everyone to really be able to hear, absorb and feel like we\u2019ve come together before they dive into the book. There\u2019s a lot there, and a lot that went into it \u2013 and I want to have very real conversations about all of it to give people a real sense of the role where they live has played in my journey and the man I wanted to be and \u2013 hopefully \u2013 became.\u201d
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Chesney will be joined by two-time LA Press Club Music Critic, friend and co-author Holly Gleason for freewheeling conversations to enrich reading\u00a0Heart Life Music<\/em>, anchoring the places book events will occur. Having found his voice delivering the experiences of coming of age and living life as fully as possible in the 21st\u00a0Century, the songwriter\/superstar wants each event to reflect his relationship with No Shoes Nation, the music and anyone trying to find inspiration to create their own place in the world.
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Saturday, November 1<\/u><\/strong>
Location: East Tennessee State University Martin Center for the Arts in the ETSU Foundation Grand Hall
Time: 3:00pm
Tickets: On sale this Friday, September 19 at 10am ET\u00a0HERE<\/a>
Bookseller: ETSU Bookstore
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Sunday, November 2<\/u><\/strong>
Location: Back Bay Events Center
Time: 7:00pm
Tickets: On sale this Friday, September 19 at 10am ET\u00a0HERE<\/a>
Bookseller: Harvard Book Store
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Known for commanding the largest stages nationwide,\u00a0Heart Life Music\u00a0<\/em>ventures to places long gone, makes unexpected music in Jamaica, the Kremlin, New England and Cabo San Lucas, drifts across the waters of the Caribbean, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Beyond meeting and collaborating with heroes, forging transcendent friendships in the islands and beyond, Chesney\u2019s introspective look at the songs and sound that defined No Shoes Nation offers the intimacy of sharing a slow afternoon on the water.<\/p>\n

About the Book<\/u><\/strong>
Heart Life Music<\/em>
by Kenny Chesney
with Holly Gleason
On Sale: Nov. 4, 2025 | William Morrow, an imprint of\u00a0HarperCollins\u00a0Publishers
Hardcover ISBN: 9780063423107 | $32.50
E-book ISBN: 9780063423114 | $14.99
Digital Audio ISBN: 9780063423121 | $27.99
Preorder\u00a0HERE<\/a>
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About The Authors<\/u><\/strong>
One of contemporary American music’s biggest names, Kenny Chesney was voted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year and was named\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2019s No.1 Country Artist of the 21st\u00a0Century. Selling out America\u2019s major stadiums for two decades and playing to over a million fans every summer since 2002,\u00a0Variety<\/em>\u00a0pronounced him \u201ccountry music\u2019s only true long-term stadium act.\u201d The East Tennessee songwriter\/superstar has over 105 platinum certifications, won the prestigious Entertainer of the Year eight times, as well as holding\u00a0Billboard<\/em>‘s record for the most Country Airplay No. 1s with 36 chart-topping songs that define coming of age in the flyover in the 21st Century. This year, the game-changing superstar became the first country artist to perform at the groundbreaking Sphere, taking No Shoes into a whole new dimension. Creating a space to work hard, play hard, love hard and come together in the spirit of celebrating all the moment offers.\u00a0Heart Life Music<\/em>\u00a0is his first book.
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Holly Gleason\u2019s work has appeared in\u00a0Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, New York Times<\/em>, the Library of Congress\u2019 National Registry of Sound Recordings, among other outlets. She was the LA Press Club\u2019s Entertainment Journalist of the Year and the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Association\u2019s Independent Journalist of the Year.\u00a0 A former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame\/Case Western Reserve Fellow, she\u2019s the creator of Belmont Book Award-winning\u00a0Woman Walk The Line<\/em>,\u00a0and co-authored Miranda Lambert\u2019s\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0best-seller\u00a0Y\u2019all Eat Yet<\/em>\u00a0as well as \u00a0Prine on Prine: Interviews & Encounters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.kennychesney.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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