Kenny Chesney has announced that he will release a new audiobook, titled "Heart Life Music."
"It's funny," Chesney says about th experience of recording the audiobook solo at Blackbird Studios. "When you're living it, it's 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 'put a smile on it.'"
He adds, "It takes a lot longer than I thought to record an audio book, or maybe it's just I would get lost in seeing all the people and places along the way. In a way, it's what I did with my summer vacation: visit all these adventures I've had, because when I started to hear the stories, I felt like I was living them all over again."
"Thinking about the moments, reading the stories, it all got very real for me - 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 - and I got to live this crazy dream alongside so many heroes, make great friends. Hearing it come out of my mouth, it's a lot to take in; I almost wouldn't believe it if I hadn't been there."
With Nashville's vibrant creative scene, characters, legends and places now long gone from the city he encountered in those early days, Chesney explores the quest to find himself as an artist and a man, as well as a sense of home anywhere there's an ocean in "Heart Life Music." These are the stories of the unlikely game changer who became the sound of coming of age in the 21st century, made friends with his heroes, rocked stadiums, and founded a No Shoes Nation.
Written with longtime friend and collaborator Holly Gleason, "Heart Life Music" will be released by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on November 4.
"Heart Life Music" is available to pre-order here.
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