Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter's relationship was at all times rooted in friendship — and nothing else.
Chesney, 57, recalled getting Potter, 42, to collaborate on their 2010 music “You and Tequila” in his memoir, Heart Life Music, printed on Tuesday, November 4. He additionally acknowledged that the observe's music video portrayed an unrealistic view of their close-knit relationship.
“We spent two days in Malibu, rolling across the canyons, seeing the cliffs and the ocean, consuming tequila and speaking about life, love, what you dream and the way onerous it may be getting there,” Chesney wrote about filming the “You and Tequila” video. He informed readers that Potter has “an actual sense of enjoyable” exterior of being a musician.
“Anybody who's ever seen that video assumes we had been having intercourse,” Chesney wrote. “Even Mother thought we had been sleeping collectively, however that wasn't true. That chemistry comes from our gypsy souls, our need to chase music the place it takes us and disappear into locations we may be nonetheless.”
Chesney reached out to Potter earlier than they recorded the music. He was listening to her stay album and realized that they'd make nice music collectively.
“I seemed up on the sky and exhaled,” Chesney wrote. “I knew we had been aligned. She seemed like coming residence.”
When recording “You and Tequila,” it solely took Potter “two or three takes.” However that music allowed for his or her friendship to bloom.
“We'd talked longer than she was within the vocal sales space. Even earlier than it was blended, we knew it was one thing,” he added. “That's the factor: You recognize.”
Their music was featured on Chesney's 2010 album, Hemingway's Whiskey.
“I've at all times believed there are issues in our lives that had been predetermined — set into movement by some bigger energy,” he wrote. “Grace was completely one.”
He added: “That coronary heart that Grace brings to all the pieces she does was a skeleton key in my world. Any time she takes a stage with us, persons are transfixed.”
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Following their collaboration, Chesney and Potter's friendship continued to get stronger.
“Grace and I've informed one another our deepest secrets and techniques, talked one another by powerful stuff and tried to indicate up for the opposite,” he wrote. “I've informed her issues I wouldn't inform anybody else, as a result of quite than decide or saying, ‘How did you let that occur?' she asks, ‘How can I assist?'”
He added, “It's tough wanting a lot for the individuals you like. You don't need to inform them what to do or the place to go.”
Chesney recalled worrying that Potter was “making a mistake” by marrying her ex-husband, Matt Burr. (Potter and Burr had been married from 2013 to 2017.)
“I may see two nice individuals who most likely weren't meant to be collectively ceaselessly,” he added. “I couldn't fairly inform her, however Grace swears she knew with out me saying a phrase. We drank a couple of bottles of actually good crimson wine, had a rager, noticed the solar come up, and I acquired again to the tour.”
Chesney wrote, “She at all times tells me how beneficiant that was. I feel it's what you do for individuals you like.”
