Kenny Chesney

and the machine of it all, but I'm also, I've made a lot of records that I wrote on my boat that's very acoustic and over here, which early on confused my audience.

We thought you were this guy, but you're this guy.

I'm like, well, I'm both.

Yes.

So my relationship with that, and I don't know when...

that kind of record's coming.

It's always in the works.

But creatively, sometimes I've learned not to.

But early on, I edited myself to a fault, always thinking about, okay, the live show, what's this going to mean?

How are people out there in the grass and the amphitheaters going to respond to this?

Not the season ticket holders, the grass.

So I thought about that all the time.

And that can

that can edit your relationship with your music some.

It's just a limitation of like they all have to do this one thing.

Yes.

So when I made my Be As You Are album, I didn't know I was making the record at the time.

But it's still one of my favorite records I ever made because I wrote it over a five-year period, not for any album cycle.

I was just writing my experiences, and I was writing about characters I've met down on the islands and their stories.

And none of those songs, none of them fit on any of the other albums because Joe Galante heard that, and he goes, no, no, no, no.