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“This was an album that was never intended to be an album,” Chesney says. “These were songs I’d written about moments that happened that I didn’t want to lose. They were for me, me and my friends, when I realized how many of them had slipped away forever…

“And the more I listened, the more I realized that everyone has these moments. Of remembering where and who you were, what you learned, how awesome it felt to be alive and in that moment – never thinking about what any of it meant. Whether you’re leaving high school for college, graduating and starting your life, getting married or a big job, losing a lover or someone close, those moments are when you realize what was. I figured I wasn’t alone, and this was probably the richest thing I could share with all those music fans living their life in my songs.”

As for “Lindy,” the lilting mid-tempo about a man who strolls “around and around and around and around,” the Luttrell, TN born singer/songwriter wrote that song 7 years ago to distill the sweet spirit of an island man who seemed to never have a home, yet was at home wherever he wandered.

“Everybody knew Lindy,” Chesney recalls. “You’d just see him, walking along, talking to himself… Never quite sure what or whether he knew what was going on, and yet, he always had a smile on his face, and sometimes you really would see him playing piano in the little church when nobody was watching. I don’t know why that one day I went home, and went, ‘Well, this is one of those moments and one of those people you don’t want to lose…’ So I started writing, and the song poured out.”