Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along. Very excited to bring in my conversation

today with one of the biggest acts in all of music. His name is Kenny Chesney. He's about to go out on his latest stadium tour. He's been selling

out football stadiums across the country and around the world since 2003 for

more than 20 years. One of the most established acts obviously in country,

but truly one of the biggest in all of music

when you look at sales and attendance

and everything else, he sold more than 30 million albums

over the course of his 30 years or so of success. He's a guy who

grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, went to college, he was an athlete, played

baseball, played football in high school, his mom buys him a guitar for Christmas while he's in college and he starts playing little places where he went to school in Johnson City at East Tennessee State University, moves to Nashville when he graduates, and the rest is history.

Now he is the Kenny Chesney, you know.

Interesting thing though about his career, he was having success through about his first five albums,

had a greatest hits album and everything, but he felt like it wasn't clicking yet.

People didn't really know who he was. He didn't have an identity. Then he puts out the album, no shirt, no shoes, no problems, and creates this entire culture, more of like a beachy

country vibe and creates no shoes nation, which is what his fans call themselves.

So interesting to hear how he sort of figured that out,

cracked the code, and went on to this incredible career.

I should tell you for background,

we got together at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Yes, the home of the New York Giants and the New York Jets.

My hometown Giants, by the way.

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