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Kenny Chesney Creates Coffee Table Book For Fans

In the last two years, Kenny Chesney has been creating “Kenny Chesney: Living In Fast Forward,” a 456-page art museum quality coffee table book. Featuring 571 pictures by photographers Allister…

Kenny Chesney Creates Coffee Table Book For Fans
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In the last two years, Kenny Chesney has been creating "Kenny Chesney: Living In Fast Forward," a 456-page art museum quality coffee table book.

Featuring 571 pictures by photographers Allister Ann, Jill Trunnell and Glen Rose, it spans his first days on the road, his emergence as a headliner, and now a stadium-sized act.

Kenny shares, “This is a very special journey every year and I am the only person who truly was able to capture it all, because I’m there when the stage is built, the buses pull in. Looking at all the pictures from Glen, Jill and Allister, I saw this amazing story – and I knew I wanted to do something that would still be here long after we were gone, and so I started to dream.”

He adds, “I had no idea what I was getting into. Book design, printing tests, revising lay-outs, but I had a great creative director helping me – and photos that really captured the soul of all that this has been. When it started coming together and I saw what it could be, I wanted something more than just a book – and the designer not only knew where to go, but how to make this project something we could literally create right here in Tennessee!”

The book will be available to fan club members exclusively and then on sale to the public. Complete details are available at LivingInFastForwardBook.com.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.