Kenny Chesney preps ‘Here And Now’ Deluxe Edition

Album reissue with four additional tracks

Kenny Chesney has set a deluxe edition of his latest album Here And Now for May 7th. The album reissue features four new tracks that were recorded over the past year.

“There’s something that happens when we bring the new songs out on the road,” Chesney explains. “To me, that’s when an album is really finished. Once you play the songs, and get the chance to come together in the name of music.”

Since the songs from Here And Now haven’t reached the people in a live setting — and won’t for another year after postponing 2020’s Chillaxifaction Tour until next year, but with a new name and line up — Chesney has decided to share the new tunes with a deluxe version released 53 weeks after its original.

“Being home, writing with friends, recording with people who inspire you,” Chesney says, “this time has taught me to really be in the moment, to share more music. Some of these songs will spark an immediate hunger for things we all love; some of them I think people will think about for days and days after they hear them. “With so much still unsettled, I didn’t want to wait any more to share them.”

Here And Now Deluxe marks a way of extending Chesney’s all-genre No. 1 Billboard 200 albums debut. The dozen existing songs – including the No. 1 title track “Here And Now,” the sensual “Tip of My Tongue” and the glass half full “Happy Does” – are being supplemented by four equally diverse tracks: “Wind On” from David Lee Murphy and Rodney Clawson, “Fields of Glory” from Josh Osborne, Ashley Gorley and Ross Copperman, “My Anthem” from Josh Osborne, Shane McAnally and Jason Gantt and “Streets,” co-written with Tom Douglas.

That notion of not waiting, of celebrating the richness of life where you are, how you are tempers “Knowing You,” the spare waltz that’s arrived at country radio this week. With a cinematic video that moves from black and white to Technicolor, representing how those magic moments can sustain us in bleaker, flatter times, “Knowing You” has pressed the album back up the charts.

“This isn’t about death, or losing someone to the other side,” Chesney explains. “It can be a lover who’s left or group of friends who came together, dreamed together, then went off to chase those things. You may never be together again, but that moment – no matter where you are – you can close your eyes and remember everything about the people, the places, the joy comes right back.

“Those people, those experiences change you. You’re better for them if you’ll see them for what they were and how they made you better. So I’m really happy to know that what I heard when I first heard the demo is how other people are feeling whether they see the video, stream it somewhere or hear it on radio.

“And because of that, too, I’m glad we’re making this Deluxe available now. If you love ‘Knowing You’ and this album, we’re making it even a little bit more special.”

Pre-orders are available beginning Friday, March 26th.

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn

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