Kenny Chesney

And I got into the studio and I was singing hard in the mic.

And one of the things that I take with me

And I still, I mean, man, I miss Barry, you know.

And one of the things I take with me is Barry came into the vocal booth one night and he goes, I want you to think of, you know, you're doing it right.

He goes, but I want you to think about the world out there hearing this song.

He goes, how do you want them to feel hearing this song?

He goes, I want you to do what you're doing, but I want you to back off the mic some and I want you to put a smile on it.

And I've tried to infuse that moment into all of my music.

Now, I didn't know how to do it.

I did it, especially on those early songs.

But I think for me, having Barry Beckett in my life early.

By the way, have you ever seen the Rick Hall documentary about the Muscle Shows thing?

Barry Beckett was one of those players.

And I mean, I wept because making music in the studio

has been my whole adult life.

This console came from that studio.

This was the original Muscle Shoals console.

Oh my God, that's unbelievable.

So my relationship with that was really intense.

But for me, I mean, it's been a struggle because I do like to make records that feed that energy we were talking about on stage.