Kenny Chesney

Right?

That doesn't fit with all this stuff.

They only fit together.

And so that became the Be As You Are.

It was called Songs from an Old Blue Chair.

But that was a true portrait of my soul, which is a whole other relationship with my music.

Do you want to play one of those?

Sure.

I was in the Virgin Islands, New Year's Eve.

This was, what's the guy that predicted the end of the world, 2000?

Nostradamus, and they say like, you know, the world's going to end in the year 2000.

So everybody was kind of antsy, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was like, and...

I mean, I was really drunk on the beach one night and I was sitting in this old blue chair and I had one of those Tervis tumbler cuffs about that tall, full of rum and Coke.

And it was probably two in the morning and I was on the beach and I put that glass between my legs and lay back and I fell asleep.

And I woke up with the sun coming right over Tortola, right?

And I had mosquito bites everywhere.

I went back to the house, I slept a couple hours, and I got up and started writing this song.

And again, I would have never written something like this unless it was lived.