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Kenny Chesney
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Kenny Chesney’s New Single Will Drop Feb. 21

Kenny Chesney has been teasing his new album for a while now and although we don’t know the name or when it will be out, we do know the first single will be “Here and Now” and it drops Feb. 21.

In classic Chesney fashion, the songwriter/superstar from East Tennessee weighs how we live against what we want: “Lotta people dreaming ‘bout one day, someday / Waiting just around the bend / I used to be one / Wondering when they’d come, but now I’m living in…” before tumbling into the song’s chorus.

“This song kind of blew my mind,” said Chesney. “The chorus is everything I feel about my time on stage with No Shoes Nation…the rush of it absolutely being the best place, best moment in the entire world. There’s no rush like it.

“But what really got me was the way the song puts everybody on notice. It says everything about how we all put off living our lives because there’s so much other stuff to do. Only thing is, that’s exactly how you miss everything that matters! It’s not the big stuff that gets you laughing or breaks the bad momentum, it’s what’s right here if you’ll bother to dial in and really feel it.”

Ironically, the song emerged from Chesney’s own desire to reconnect with his writer friends. Not to machine songs for a project, but to tell stories, laugh about old times, drink some beers, soak up some sun and remember the way songwriters used to converge for the sake of the moment. The spark of the moment fired up Craig Wiseman, David Garcia and CMA Vocal Event co-winner David Lee Murphy one evening after returning to their house in Malibu. POOF! Magic.

“When I heard it, it was everything we’d been talking about,” Chesney says with a laugh. “The melody, the rhythm felt like what the song was made of. That line, ‘Everybody’s waiting, but they’re waiting on what? Better get to living, because all we’ve got is…here & now…’ That is the whole deal in two lines. Your life is now, get after it.”

For anyone who’s ready for spring training, warm weather or Chesney’s Chillaxification 2020 Tour to hit the road, here’s the song to get you there. But more importantly, on a cold morning, it’ll get your engine running, your heart in alignment and your day on with a brisk surge of electric guitars, a rush of high hat, kick drums and the chorus’ reminder, “You and me, ain’t it good to be alive / Ain’t no better place, ain’t no better time / Than here and now.”

About Jerry Holthouse

Music editor for Nashville.com. Jerry Holthouse is a content writer, songwriter and a graphic designer. He owns and runs Holthouse Creative, a full service creative agency. He is an avid outdoorsman and a lover of everything music. You can contact him at JerryHolthouse@Nashville.com

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