Kenny Chesney has a new project coming out in 2025, but it isn’t an album. The 56-year-old reveals he will release his new book, Heart Life Music, on November 4. The book is filled with stories and anecdotes about his own life, from his childhood in East Tennessee to becoming one of country music’s biggest stars of all time. But although Heart Life Music is about Chesney, he falls short of calling it a memoir.
“This is not my memoir, but something far better,” Chesney shares. “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.”
Even Chesney is surprised that he wrote Heart Life Music, especially since he at one time said he would never write a book, especially about his own life.
“I always said I’d never write a book,” Chesney reflects. “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.
“To have been in a room as a kid writing with Dean Dillon,” he continues, “To 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. So, for everyone in No Shoes Nation, I realized: you deserved to share the magic.”
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Chesney also shared his thoughts on Heart Life Music being released on social media.
“Never Say Never…or you’ll end up looking at your life, friends, songs and stories in all new ways,” he says.
Chesney is only a few months away from his Live at Sphere Las Vegas residency. The residency, which begins on May 22, almost completely sold out as soon as tickets went on sale.
“You never know when you do something outside the box if people will follow you,” Chesney says. “I had a feeling as hard as No Shoes Nation sings all these songs back to me summer after summer, the chance to take this singular deep dive into them would hit them the same way it hit me. To be wrapped in this sound quality and all new visuals means a whole different way to get inside the music, and they’re as ready as I am.”
Heart Life Music is currently available for preorder here. Find all of Chesney’s music and his Las Vegas dates, at KennyChesney.com.
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