Kenny Chesney To Release First Book, ‘HEART LIFE MUSIC’

Kenny Chesney once vowed he’d “never” write a book, but that’s no longer the case. The country superstar is set to release his very first book, HEART LIFE MUSIC, on November 4, 2025. 

The just-announced project will chronicle Chesney’s life and musical journey from his hometown of Luttrell, Tennessee, where he was raised primarily by a single mother and supported by extended family, to chasing his dreams in Music City. It will explore his rise to headlining major venues and his travels, including making music in places like Jamaica, New England, and Cabo San Lucas, along with the inspiration he’s found from both his idols and the everyday people he’s met along the way. 

 “This is not my memoir,” Chesney explains, “but something far better. 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.”

Fans will have the opportunity to hear untold stories about Chesney’s time playing on Nashville’s Lower Broadway, his travels on his worn down tour bus, nicknamed “the Iron Lung,” his reflections on trying to make a name for himself in the music industry as he watched others careers blow up, and more. 

Like everything Kenny Chesney does, whether it’s delivering an unforgettable performance for 50,000+ fans in stadiums or trying new things—such as his upcoming residency at The Sphere—he always keeps his fans, No Shoes Nation, in mind. This book is no different. 

“I always said I’d never write a book,” he marvels. “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, 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.”

Written by Chesney with his longtime friend and collaborator, Holly Gleason, HEART LIFE MUSIC will be released via William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on November 4, 2025. Preorders are available now.