First published 2025
Kenny Chesney sits on a barstool in a college bar, guitar in hand, discovering something he never expected. The East Tennessee teenager had built his world around sports and music, but when his high school football career ended, he needed to find what came next. That guitar becomes his bridge to people and stories he never imagined. Nashville calls to him with its creative energy, colorful characters, and musical legends. The city he encounters in those early days pulses with life that has since disappeared. Chesney searches for his identity as both artist and man while chasing an elusive sense of home. He finds it wherever oceans meet the shore. This is the journey of an unlikely figure who would capture the sound of a generation, befriend his musical heroes, fill massive stadiums, and build a devoted following called No Shoes Nation.
Genres: autobiography, biography-memoir, music, 21st-century, americana
Vibes: emotional, intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, identity-journey
Setting: East Tennessee, Nashville
Period: High School
352 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow