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Kenny Chesney talks with Katie Neal at our Audacy Studios inside the Hard Rock located in the heart of Nashville
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00:00Kenny Chesney here in studio with us for the first time. Thank you for coming to see us.
00:04This is nice digs, Katie. Thank you. I'm happy to have you in here. It's good to be here. We have
00:09so much to talk about with this book, but first I wanted to congratulate you on last weekend with
00:15the induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. That had to have been like a very emotional
00:21afternoon. It was. And I'll tell you, like a lot of people leading up to that, they would go,
00:27how do you feel? And I would say I haven't really accepted it yet, you know, because we're still
00:32working really hard. I got the book stuff. I got stuff. And it doesn't feel like that I'm going
00:36into the Hall of Fame. It still seems like I'm rolling, which we are. But I have to tell you,
00:41walking into that rotunda and they say your name over the speakers, Country Music Hall of Famer,
00:50Kenny Chesney, and every living member is in there, you get to a place where it hits you.
00:59And that moment, the gravity of that moment is truly unbelievable.
01:05I know you didn't cry.
01:05We had to sit and take a group picture and there's all of us there and I'm in that group.
01:11And that picture will be really, like really big in my house somewhere.
01:17Of course it will be. I don't know how you didn't cry like literally the entire time.
01:22I was sitting beside in the ceremony. I sat beside my mother and father, which was a gift,
01:27you know, to be at this place in my life and career and get inducted into the Hall of Fame and
01:33still have both of them with us. And I sat right beside them. And the whole ceremony,
01:37my mother was squeezing my hand really hard. I said, Mom, you're going to have to let go a little
01:42bit. So it was emotional. It really was. It was to have all my friends there and the people that
01:49have been on this journey with me. And a lot of people, you know, there's been a lot of ups and
01:54downs over the years. And to be standing there in that spot, I mean, that was just, it was just so
01:59insane. It's something that when you're a child and you go, okay, or even an adult,
02:07when I moved to Nashville after college, I didn't see that night coming ever.
02:11No, how can you, I mean, when you were so just focused on like the, you know, 10,000 tiny steps
02:16you have to take to get to where you're going. Yes, just to even get going in this business
02:19and to stand up there in that place and in that spot where a lot of your friends and heroes have
02:25stood is, it's, it hit me and I accepted it. And when I accepted it, I was like, oh, wow,
02:33this is the most unbelievable feeling in the world to be validated like that. And to be
02:39recognized to that level. It was, it was an unbelievable. And our friend Kelsey came and
02:44sang for me, Megan sang for me and Eric Church. Eric Church was on a, like, I don't even know who,
02:50somebody got sick and couldn't come and they called Eric and he was on vacation at the beach in Florida
02:56and they called him and the next day he flew up and did a medley. Like everybody just did one song.
03:02Eric did like an eight song medley, like, and put that together in one day for me. It was
03:06unbelievable. That's so incredible. I can't even like imagine like the gravity of that moment.
03:10And then you've also got the release of this book coming. Yes. I really, I feel like you must be on
03:16like the craziest emotional journey right now, just thinking about your life. That's right. I mean,
03:21there's a lot going on and it was very emotional writing this book. Um, because it's a lot like
03:28therapy every day, you know, and they tell you in therapy, you have to keep telling the story.
03:33And every time you tell the story, you remember something different. And that was the way it was
03:37with this, you know? So I'm glad I did it though. It was, it's, it's been an unbelievable, um, process.
03:44Holly and I've been writing this book since almost a year, well, over a year now,
03:49by the time it comes out. And I never saw myself writing a book. I didn't know that I was
03:54going to do this. I was always so driven and so, uh, just forward thinking and, and, and working
04:03towards something. And we still are, but you know, everything's been moving so fast that I, I haven't
04:11over the years taken the proper time to set and truly reflect and truly reflect on what happened to
04:17me. Right. And so when the idea of this came up and we, and, and I started thinking about the idea
04:27of, okay, what are we going to talk about? And all the stuff that has happened to me in my career
04:32and my life so far, I was pretty like stunned by it, you know, because I truly haven't, haven't
04:38stopped to think about those things. And I went, wow, all the people that have done this with me,
04:45you know, and all the people that have been on the road and, and, and, uh, my friends and heroes
04:52that have championed me over the years. That's the why I think is I wanted to honor them and honor
04:59my journey. And, um, that's, that's why, that's where all this started. Yeah. It's been so much fun
05:07reading this. You and Holly did such an amazing job because I really, it feels like just sitting down
05:11in the living room and you just like giving your life story. And there's so many, you and I have
05:17talked so many times and you always talk about how, you know, the guys that are with you on the
05:20road now are the guys that have been out there with you since day one. And what I thought was
05:25really cool that I was thinking about as I was reading it is you getting to know those stories,
05:29like realizing like you met Tim Holt in little league baseball and then got him to join the circus
05:35and come out on the road with you. Like knowing all of that, like it just, it really, I'm really
05:41enjoying it. Thank you. I've got, uh, four guys that I grew up with in Knoxville and in Union County,
05:49Tennessee. Um, one is now my property manager. Um, but there's three guys that are out on the road
05:56with me that have been on the road with me since I started. And, but we all went to elementary school,
06:00high school. We were all college roommates. And then when I graduated college at East Tennessee
06:06State University, I moved to Nashville to chase this, this dream. And they, two of them went to
06:12work for a credit union. And I said, well, I said, if I get to a place where I really get to, to do
06:19this, I want to call you guys and have you come with me. So a few years later they got to call and it
06:24was a much, as much of it as it was a leap of faith for me to, to move here and chase this dream.
06:30It was really a leap of faith for them because they already had kids. They had wives that didn't
06:36understand the dream. Yeah. So it was like, uh, it was, it was even more of a leap of faith for them,
06:44but to be able to do that with them and to be at this place in our life and to have experienced
06:50everything we've experienced is one of the biggest gifts for all of us. I'm sure that it is. Do you,
06:54do you feel like having those guys out with you has helped you stay grounded through all of this?
07:01When it all started changing and like, it's only human nature for your brain to change a little
07:06bit, you know, and the human ego goes, Oh yeah. Like, you know, they know the exact button to prep,
07:15to push, to bring me right down back to earth. Well, it sounds like it was probably kicking your
07:20butt playing video games or something. Yeah. We played more college PlayStation football than you
07:26could imagine. I laughed so hard when you were like, I've pushed shows five, 10, 15 minutes trying
07:31to win a PlayStation. Oh no. Like, like I've got friends that, that, uh, get ready for their show
07:39at two in the afternoon for an eight o'clock show. And, um, my life is really different than that,
07:48you know? So I can, I can be ready to go on stage in five minutes, jeans, boots, t-shirt, straw hat,
07:55ready. That's it. So it was so competitive in PlayStation football that we would be like,
08:02we'd have like five minutes left in the game, but a five minutes in a football game can take
08:06sometimes 20 minutes. So all of a sudden here we are at show time and we have held shows for at
08:13least, I mean, I can count at least 10 shows that we held for 20 minutes or more because Daryl Hobby
08:18and I were, were so competitive. We didn't want to pause the game and we had to finish our college
08:24PlayStation football game. That's true story. Your tour manager must've been having a heart attack
08:28so many times. Well, and, and, and the man, but well, my manager was because, you know,
08:34if you're 20 minutes late, then we're, we're not going to cut our show 20 minutes. So we're past
08:39curfew. We're past, we got to pay overtime to the union people. And all that happened because
08:46of my competitive nature. Oh my gosh. There's just so many fun stories in here. I'm trying to
08:51remember now. Like I, it was hard for me to almost organize my thoughts because I could talk to you
08:55about this for hours, but one of the really cool ones I felt like was so fun to read about was the night
09:01that you were opening for Jones and you got to ride home on the plane with him.
09:06Well, when you grew up where I did and with my grandmother, I lived with my grandmother for like
09:10two or three years. Um, because my mom and my father divorced before I was one, my biological
09:16father. And then I lived with my mom and my stepfather for a while. And then while he was in
09:21Vietnam, we lived with my grandparents and that's where I first heard country music was in her kitchen.
09:27And a lot of that was George Jones. And so we loved George, loved him. And then you fast forward
09:33years later and I moved to town. I get a record deal that really wasn't working, but I had a deal
09:41and George Jones and Tammy Wynette decided to do a reunion tour. And I think they did a record
09:48together and they were doing a tour to promote it. And they asked me of all people to open that show
09:54for them. And I was stunned. I was like, wow, this is unbelievable. I get to be the person that does
10:00this. Now, nobody in the audience knew who I was. Nobody. I didn't have any, I had songs out,
10:07but none of them got played. And so, um, but I didn't care. It was so fantastic. I mean,
10:14the audience thought that we might've been a local band that they hired just to open for Tammy
10:21and George, but it was us, but, uh, nobody knew it. But after a couple of weeks, Nancy came to me
10:27because I would always, after my show, I would go back to the bus, change clothes, and then I would
10:30sit on the side of the stage and on the, over by the, the monitor board and watch George's show.
10:36I mean, I just, he was the biggest thing ever to me. And so Nancy came up one day and said,
10:42would you like to fly home with us? And I haven't even, I'd never even seen a private jet,
10:48much less fly on one. But an hour or two later, there I was on a private jet with George Jones
10:55flying back home. And it was somewhere in Texas. So it was a couple hour flight.
11:00And there we were. That's where our friendship started.
11:03I can't even imagine what must've been going through your head in those moments. Like,
11:06what am I even going to say to George Jones on this flight?
11:08Yeah. And I didn't want to be that guy either. I didn't want to be like,
11:13I didn't want to embarrass myself. And I, but then again, I, I, I wanted him to know how much
11:19I loved him, but I didn't want to seem like a overaggressive fan at the same time,
11:23a really hard balance to find. You really got to hold back.
11:26So it was, that was an incredible, incredible night. And George and I were really good friends
11:31until the day. Wow. Yeah. So incredible. I feel like there's so many moments in this book that I
11:37think about you and how you must've just been like, how did a kid from East Tennessee
11:40end up in this moment? Oh, yeah. And if you'd told that kid in East Tennessee, that this was
11:47all those stories that are in this book would have happened. I would have told you, you were crazy
11:50because I used to, uh, I opened the book. I, one of the things that I used to do,
11:55and it's so ironic later in my life, because I did the same thing on my boat in the Virgin Islands
12:00is that I would, um, I would lay out in the backyard of my grandmother's house and just look up at the
12:06stars at night. I loved it. Um, I was always very curious. I was always, uh, wondering what was out
12:13there past my County line because we only went where I lived. We lived so far out. We didn't get
12:19light pollution from any city. So when it got dark, it was dark and it was beautiful. And the only roads
12:26I knew were the roads to school, church, the ballpark, and to my cousin's house. Once a year,
12:32I would go into Knoxville a little bit to see the Christmas lights. That's how far I would live.
12:36So you fast forward a long time now. And I've, I have this life and I have my boat in the Virgin
12:43Islands and I'm lying on the bow of the boat in the middle of the night cause I couldn't sleep.
12:47And it's the same skies, the same stars you're looking at. And I just felt so blessed and had so
12:54much gratitude, you know, but if you'd have told that kid, he was going to be laying, lying on that boat,
12:59you know, later in life, he wouldn't have believed it.
13:04One of my favorite like arcs of the story, like I'm just the past this point in the book right now,
13:08but it's where you've gone from this point of like, you know, you're opening this festival
13:12for George Strait and everybody's like, they know the songs, but they're like, who's Kenny? Like,
13:17I don't know who Kenny Chesney is.
13:19Yeah. That was a lot of years of my life.
13:21Right. And I think that people probably, it's like the, you know, the famous Nashville,
13:25like 10 year overnight success, right? Like you've been grinding this out forever. People know the music,
13:29they might not know the face. And then all of a sudden, who the fuck is Kenny Chesney?
13:32That's right.
13:33Katie, I had, I had an 18 song greatest hits album and nobody knew who I was.
13:41That was crazy to me. Like when I was, I was like, wait, this is when that came out?
13:46Like, yeah, I had a lot of songs. I would go out and play fairs or open for people and nobody would know who I was.
13:52But then I would play whatever song it was. And they go, oh yeah, I know that song. And I could see,
13:57I get a rise out of how forever feels. Oh, I know that song. And I know she's got it all. I know that
14:02song. And I know don't happen twice. Yeah, I know that song. And so I had like 18 songs that people
14:08knew, but nobody connected the dots with some sort of any sort of image where, but, but there was
14:13nothing to connect because I hadn't found myself yet.
14:16But yeah. And then no shoes comes and no shoes came. And then we had, you know, that album sold
14:234 million copies and it was changing my life. And then people came to hear those songs and then
14:28they realized, oh God, this is the guy that that's had 10 years of hits. So all of a sudden we had a,
14:34we had an over two hour show instantly of hits and it was on. I mean, it was on.
14:41It's just so, it's almost so magical that it happened that way. Cause I feel like today you
14:46see kids who like have that kind of success and you know, the one album, but then they,
14:50they can't hardly fill out a live show set, you know, and they got to play a lot of covers and
14:54they make it work. But to have what you had, it's like everything aligned so perfectly.
14:59Yeah. And that's one thing I got asked the other day, what I hope people get from this book.
15:03This book is a roadmap of, of, of a dream. And you can either take this roadmap or not, but this,
15:11this roadmap is full of friends. It's full of really hard work. It's not viral. It's by word of
15:18mouth, you know, but everything's so viral today that this, this map doesn't really exist much
15:24anymore, but, but it can work. I mean, it can work. And I see people doing it this way. It's just
15:30not as instant. Right. But, um, but that's how it was for us. Nothing was instant, nothing. And
15:36I'm so, so thankful for that now, but it's all cause it's only human nature. When I got started,
15:42I mean, I was, it was, I was confusing to me to have an 18 song greatest hits record and nobody know,
15:49but cause I was, I was seeing people that was having a lot more success than me.
15:55That's so hard. So it's hard. It's hard for anybody. So you fast forward and you go, wow,
16:02I was on a, I was on a specific path. It was supposed to be this way. There was something
16:07more coming from me, but it's hard as an artist when you see it happen for other people and you
16:13feel like that your songs are as good as those. And it's just not happening. That was my life for a
16:18long time. There's a part in the book that really hit me the hardest. Cause I had almost the exact same
16:24moment with my mother and it's when you went home and you were really grinding things out and your
16:28mom just said, Kenny, do you want to come home? And you said, I can't, I have to do this. And that
16:32is a powerful moment and like a coming of age story because you know, a lot of people it's,
16:38it's when you're ready to throw in the towel. Well, she, she was, um, are you talking about when I
16:46was just getting, when you were just getting started and you went home and she was like, Kenny,
16:49do you want to just come home? Yeah. And I said, I just can't do it. Cause I truly believe this is
16:53the right path I'm supposed to be on. But she was like, it's okay if, if, if, if, you know,
16:58if this doesn't work, but I said, no, I'm going to, yeah. Cause she was, she was, she had seen me
17:04play in college. She had seen me play in different places and she was, she was supportive, but I think
17:11it was in a way of, you know, I think she thought that I was just going to do this for a minute and then
17:15come back and come home. And she didn't want to see me fail or didn't want to see me be
17:19disappointed, whatever it was. Yeah. But, and then it started happening and then it really started
17:27happening. Look, my mom had me when she was really young, so she's never been old to me.
17:33We grew up together and I mean, it's, it's just the way it is. And, and so when I got really busy,
17:40the harder part than what you talked about was she, she, she told me, she was, I just can't reach you
17:46anymore. Oh, that's hard. And that was hard, but you, I was so messed up and, and I was,
17:52I was already down this path and chasing this dream. I heard it, but I didn't hear it. I heard
17:58her say those words, but I didn't acknowledge it. Cause I was already gone. Like nothing was going
18:03to change it. Yeah. And you gotta, you gotta learn that lesson the hard way. Unfortunately,
18:08that is one that it just won't reach you. You know what I mean? Like the, I think that that's why it
18:12meant a lot to her probably to sit beside me at the hall of fame the other night. That's probably
18:16why she was really squeezing my hand because she got to be there with me. I can't even imagine
18:20the pride pouring out of both of it. I can't imagine. I mean, she goes, you don't understand
18:24cause you don't have a child. I said, okay, you're right. I don't, but I imagine if I had a child and
18:29that happened to them, that I'd be very proud. Yeah. I imagine. So I know that you said that writing
18:34this book was healing and I know that there's, you know, a lot of reflection at this point in your
18:38life with everything that's going on, but what do you feel like you learned about yourself
18:41writing this book? Oh, wow. That's a great question.
18:45Like were there patterns or things you were able to see looking back that?
18:49Well, I mean, I, it's not that I've learned it. I've always been very focused. I, I have always
18:55been very driven and I don't know, Katie, I, I went on this path and I've had a lot of people say,
19:04Hey, you know what? We were, we think it's great that you gave so much of your life to this. I went,
19:09no, no, no, no, no, no. I gave all of it. You did all of it. And so, and I don't know where that
19:16comes from. I get this love of maybe it's my father, you know, because he was a coach and he
19:22was very disciplined and work ethic was really important to him. But I get this, this, this ability
19:31to connect with the masses and spread positive energy and love from my mother. I, I know that
19:39for a fact, and I'm very thankful for that. And we were in Foxboro two years ago when we ended the
19:46sun goes down tour. And my mom's a twin and she, I saw both of them standing over there on the side
19:52of the stage. And I just looked out at this sea of people who were just having a blast. And I brought
19:59my mom and my aunt Sharon out on stage and I introduced the crowd to them because I wanted
20:05them to cause there have been so many years that I've sat there at that stadium and had so many
20:10great moments of connection. And I wanted them to meet the source of that. And I don't think I
20:18answered your question, but that took me there anyway. But I don't know. I just, I just learned,
20:22um, writing this book that I was been very blessed. I have so much gratitude, but even as a kid, I mean,
20:31I was, I just, I was just always very curious and always wanted to push this dream to see where it
20:37would take me even early on. And not even knowing, not even understanding what the dream was,
20:44right. I didn't know I was going to do this. I didn't, but as a kid, I just wanted to see what
20:49was out there. Yeah. It's not that I wanted to leave. I just wanted to, wanted to know.
20:53I think I relate to that longing. Cause like, I never thought this is what I would be doing
20:57or at this level ever. Like, could I thought I'd just like grow up and be a teacher. I don't know.
21:00Like, but like you, I was like kind of curious. Like, I just felt like there was something more.
21:05And so like that part of reading all this is really just, it's also hit me and made me reflect
21:10a lot. What memories do you feel like hit the hardest when you were sitting down and telling
21:14Holly stories? Like, was there one where you're like, Oh, I haven't thought about that in a while or
21:17well, my rope, you know, everything was kind of song specific and David Farmer, my role manager
21:24and I, we lived on a houseboat when we were kids or not kids. It was, it was like right after high
21:29school, the year before our first year in college. And we were lifeguards at a, at a state park pool
21:34and we lived on his houseboat and we just constantly listened to music. So whenever I hear the Joker
21:40by Steve Miller, I think about those memories. And whenever I hear born to run by Bruce Springsteen,
21:45I'm in my high school football locker room, getting ready to run out on a Friday night.
21:50Whenever I hear Tom Petty, I went to Dean Smith's basketball camp. He was a long time basketball
21:57coach at North Carolina and he had a basketball camp every year. And I would go and I went one
22:02year and that was the first time that we were, we all had this, we went to this, this community
22:09cafeteria to eat every day for lunch. And they had a, they had, I mean, a screen, I swear to God,
22:16it felt like it was as big as that wall. And that was the first time I saw MTV and I saw Tom Petty and
22:22I forgot the name of the song, but it was where he's wearing the big top hat. And I think it was
22:26called Don't Come Around Here No More. But I was just staring at that. Like, what is this? And then I
22:33paid attention to the music for some reason and I, and the song and like, so there was all these
22:39moments within this book where I was just being tapped on the shoulder, if you will, with the
22:47universe, with music, because I wanted to be an athlete, but there was a show that I went to see
22:53as a kid with my mom and in a field to go see Alabama. I went to see George Jones, Conway,
22:58H. Woody and Merle Haggard on Thanksgiving night that I went, wow. And then there was this Tom
23:04Petty moment and there was all this stuff. And I think it's, it's really interesting now.
23:11This is not something that I learned about myself, but I think all of us have this in our life where
23:16we experienced these small moments at the time, but, and we think they're just small moments that
23:23you just kind of push away in your life, but then you get older and you look back and those moments
23:28meant everything. You zoom out and connect the dots. Yes. You zoom out and you go, oh, wow. Like
23:33that was, oh, wow. I was supposed to be there. And it, because it was all those. Yeah. Connecting
23:41the dots to who the person I am today. Life is so beautiful when you look at it like that. And it's
23:46just, it's incredible. So writing this book made me connect those dots. It made me see that
23:50about not just how those dots were connected, but how we're all connected in ways that we have no idea
23:56why, but we are. It's Kenny, I'm just so happy for you. Like I really am like seeing all this,
24:03reading this book. It's been so fun. You are going back to spear next summer. What are you
24:08excited about for this? Well, it's just one of the most amazing experiences. I mean,
24:13that we've ever had. Um, what was great for us, you know, cause we didn't really know what,
24:20how it was going to be until we got there and got a few under our belt. But what it truly forced me and
24:26all the creative people that put this together to for it forced us to go down different neural
24:31pathways in our brain. Oh yeah. So we're like, okay, well, let's just say we got a stadium show
24:36this year. We're pretty used. I'm not saying it's ho-hum at all, but we're pretty used to knowing
24:41what we have to do to present that to the world. Well, this was completely different. It was a blank
24:47canvas. And for someone as creative as me, I'm sitting there going, okay, well, what, what, what,
24:54what are we going to do? So there was some anxiety that came with that. But once we got up there and
25:00got it done and we got up there on stage and we were able to connect with this audience in a
25:05completely different way, it was beautiful. And so they asked us to do it again and we can't wait
25:11and we're going to change some of it because you have to change it. Right. I mean, it can't be that
25:15if I, if I went to see somebody show at the sphere and loved it and they came back the next year
25:22and invited us back, I'd want to, I wouldn't want to see the exact same thing. So we're in the
25:28process right now in the middle of the book, already approving stuff and creatively our brains
25:35are turning and our heads are turning and everything. It's going to be fun once we get it
25:39done, you know, but it was just a beautiful way to give the fans this music and let them experience
25:48all these songs that they've lived with for a while in a completely different way. It's, it's crazy,
25:54but you could just see how happy they were. And, and, but for me, it was hard at first because for
25:59years, as you know, I'd be on stage and we're right here. Like I'm looking at the audience. That's my
26:04mojo. Like we're going to be together tonight and this is the way it is. We're, this is our
26:09connection. Well, I'm still there. Right. And I, and for the first couple of shows, I had to get
26:15used to it and then I, I would eventually pull them over the fence, but it's just human nature
26:22to be there and go. Exactly. I remember you saying this to me because I was there opening
26:27night. I remember being like, everybody's looking up. Like they can't help it. You can't help it
26:31because it's so immersive and it's just so beautiful. And I think it's emotional in nature. I think that
26:37when I, when we saw the show as a band, like we got to record some of us on stage and it's almost
26:42like watching us on stage. It's crazy. And then you see all of it put together. It's,
26:47um, I don't know. It's like I had this, I had this, this thought like, wow, this is how life
26:54should be. This is how, like, how, you know, it was like a fisheye lens. It was so beautiful
27:02and it's over you. It's in you. It's around you. It's, it's, it's crazy.
27:05It's crazy. I remember leaving and going like, how are we all just going to go back
27:10to a normal concert after this? Like we're ruined. Yeah, I know. I know. But we will
27:17one day. No, we will. No, I mean like going to any concert after seeing that was like, I
27:22was like, oh my God, now that I've experienced this, it's crazy. And I've told like anyone
27:25who listened, like you have to go see Kenny at Sphere because it's so much fun. I also say
27:29my number one piece of advice to everyone, because I had a cute little cowboy hat on that
27:33night. Do not wear a hat. Could have spent the whole night like this. And I was like,
27:37I'm going to be at the chiropractor the next day. We caught ourselves doing it as a band.
27:41Like I could, we could see like the, all the content was behind us and it came over us and
27:46we, and above the crowd, you could see the content behind them and you, we could see it
27:50there and there. And I don't know if you remember, you were there first night and a song that I
27:57was saying a million times, I forgot the words to, and I just looked around at the band
28:01and you know, I can usually rely on Wyatt, my piano player and like he will pick it,
28:06but he was doing the same thing I was. I looked back at Wyatt and he was going.
28:10You know what's so funny? I didn't, I don't even remember that happening. I didn't even
28:13catch it because I was also looking up, but it was so intense, you know, because I was
28:17like, I was dying up there. I was, but the reason that happened was because I got
28:21distracted. Yeah. How could you not? I was sitting there singing something. I went, wow,
28:26that was pretty cool. And then I forgot the second verse, all of it. I'm surprised. Not
28:31that you will, but like, I'm, if it was me, I would probably trip and fall at some point
28:34up there because I'd be looking up instead of watching where I was walking. It's such
28:39a trippy experience, but it's so cool and it's so beautiful. I can't wait to go back.
28:43Last thing I want to ask you about new music. I know that you are very much in book world
28:48right now, but I also know that you never stop being creative and thinking about my fingernails
28:54all of a sudden. Are you working on music right now? Have you even thought about that?
29:01Yeah, I was. I was working on new music a lot this summer and then I got into book world.
29:07And so I put a pause on that. At some point I will, I mean, yes, I'm working on new music.
29:12That's the answer to your question. That's the, that's the short answer, but we're nowhere
29:16close, you know? So we'll see. It'll be sometime maybe in the future.
29:21Yeah. We got to get through this, right? What are you looking forward to once like book
29:26tour is done? We've got the holidays coming. Like, do you have some space where you're
29:29going to be able to exhale?
29:30Yeah, yeah. I'm looking forward to, because the book launch is going to take us to almost
29:34all the way to the CMAs. And that's, that now is like the week before Thanksgiving.
29:40It's crazy.
29:41So yeah, once all that's over, I'm, I am looking forward. I mean, I've been on a diet
29:45for a minute. So I'm going to eat something.
29:48Kenny Chesney, thank you so much for coming here.
29:50I love you.
29:51And for doing this and taking the time. I love you too. And I really like, enjoy this book.
29:53I really did like your cowboy hat at the Sphere though.
29:56It was pink if I remember.
29:57It was red.
29:58Red.
29:58It was the cutest outfit. I agree. But I truly, there's like a video of me that Kelly Bolton
30:03took where I'm just looking up like this. And I kept having to go like this. Like everybody
30:07else is looking up and I'm like trying to stretch my neck.
30:09Now, if I remember right, after the show, I came back into the Sphere because there was
30:13a little bit of a get together going on after the show. And it seemed like you girls were
30:17having a blast.
30:18We had the time of our lives.
30:20Yeah. It seemed like it.
30:21Like we, you put ballerini in Vegas and we had, we had a very lovely time. I think I texted
30:27you, we drank a lot of champagne the next day on the way home. Yeah. We just carried
30:30that right on in through the weekend. So I can't wait. I wish I could have done that
30:34because I had to work.
30:35I know you were working and we were happy.
30:36I was a party pooper. I didn't get to do it.
30:38It's hard when you're the one that's got to work and everybody else is having a fun
30:41time.
30:41Everybody thinks I'm on the road. Not all my songs are about drinking and partying
30:44and stuff, whatever that I live that. I don't.
30:46Well, you can't, especially doing what you're doing.
30:50Yeah.
30:50Like the shows, like the regiment that you're on. Like I know Taylor Swift, I had so much respect
30:55for performers. I've talked to Luke Combs about this and hearing Taylor Swift talk
30:58about it in her doc. Like you are like an athlete at that. Like you have got to really
31:02take care of your body. Otherwise you end up in a situation where you're canceling shows
31:05and you can't do that when there's 60,000 people in the parking lot.
31:08I've lived that life before. Right. And then I got to a point where, okay, now I have to
31:13make a choice. I'm either going to act a fool like I've done so far in my career out here,
31:18or I'm going to do what I really love because there was a moment that I couldn't do both.
31:25And this one, you know, the career one, not the act in a fool one.
31:29Yeah.
31:30Yeah.
31:30And you, what you want, I watch.
31:31It was fun doing both.
31:32Oh, I bet it was.
31:33But I couldn't do it like that and still be, because I wanted the fans to get all of me.
31:40Not only that I want them to get all of me, I want them to get the best of me.
31:44And that's important to me.
31:46That's why we love you, Kenny Chesney.
31:48Yeah.
31:48Thank you so much.
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