<\/span><\/div>\nKenny Chesney tells the story of his life in “Heart Life Music,” out Nov. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n
\u2018Heart Life Music\u2019 by Kenny Chesney exclusive excerpt<\/h2>\n
Starting in 1998, it seemed eight out of every ten girls I met in the Virgin Islands were from New England. Whether the bars, restaurants or on boats, those accents you can\u2019t miss.<\/p>\n
Having some local friends, I could hang out and run into someone I knew. I kept seeing this one bartender. She wore a Red Sox cap backwards, and you could she had these baby dreadlocks peeking out from under it. Didn\u2019t matter when or where I saw her, she always had that Boston cap on.<\/p>\n
You never know why something strikes you. Someone\u2019s spark, a random detail catches your imagination.<\/p>\n
I was in the middle of writing the \u201cBe As You Are\u201d album, though I didn\u2019t know it yet.<\/p>\n
I had these songs that didn\u2019t have a place on my commercial records, but they were talking to each other. More authentically me than anything I\u2019d ever done, I kept writing.<\/p>\n
All that was whirling around my head one night when Mark Tamburino started playing this guitar part. It had a real groove, with a melody inside it that felt good. I was in my bunk thinking about that bartender, about a lot of stories I\u2019d heard from my friends down there. That groove started circling around my head, the beats dropping just so\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wears a Red Sox cap\u2026 to hide her\u2026 baby\u2026 dreads\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
In a bunk on a bus rolling down the highway, \u201cBoston\u201d started to take shape.<\/p>\n
I had no idea how far that song would travel. I only knew it was an authentic truth about that bartender, but so many other people in the islands.<\/p>\n
Writing these songs, the people came with me.<\/p>\n
Even when I wasn\u2019t there, the islands colored my writing. Scheduled to play the University of Texas\u2019 Frank Erwin Center in 2003, a freak ice storm cancelled our show. Trapped, because the roads were too icy to travel, Tim (Holt), Daryl (Hobby) and I were stuck.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomewhere in the Sun\u201d fell out of that frozen \u2013 literally and metaphorically \u2013 moment in time. Trapped in a Holiday Inn parking lot, on our buses and these old hotel rooms, songs emerged. I started describing where we were: the bad room service, the TV with only \u201cAndy Griffith\u201d and \u201cBarney,\u201d because the cable was knocked out.<\/p>\n
Whatever channel we could get, there was an ad for Cancun that kept airing. I could feel the melody as I writing it all down. Danny Tucker, my bus driver at the time, threw out the toast that became the bridge, so he was co-writer on the song, too.<\/p>\n
A love letter to the people and places I was discovering, you can hear the pull of this other life. Some people thought I was recharging, but it was more opening up and letting go. There\u2019s a quiet you need to hear your soul, something you can\u2019t do when there\u2019s a bunch of buses and trucks, people needing answers.<\/p>\n
The answers I needed were found in hidden bars only the locals and sailors knew.<\/p>\n
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