2025 Competition Entry:

Born Again in Tennessee by Kanude

Genre

Rock

Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Kanude: Songwriter, Producer, Lead and BGVs
Chris Rodriguez: Electric Guitars, Banjitar, and Electric Bass
Bobby Blazier: Drums
The McCrary Sisters: BGVs and Banter
Dickey Fontaine: Vocals and Co-Producer, Backing Vocals
Tyler Callahan: Recording Engineer
Jim Hill: Pro Tools Editing
Shooter Jennings: Mixing Engineer
Emily Lazar: Mastering Engineer at The Lodge
Mike Frost (SLFEMP): Cover Art and Design

Description

Kanude is back with a bang on his latest, a southern-rock style anthem featuring Nashville royalty The McCrary Sisters and mixed by Grammy-winning producer Shooter Jennings.

Bio

He is a songwriter, recording artist, and producer releasing music primarily under the monikers Kanude, LightBody Sound & Val Holler over the past 25 years. His music has been featured in HBO’s “True Blood,” ​as part of the original programming for the inaugural New York Fringe Festival (in which he composed and performed in a wild downtown rock opera, “One Arm Red: Gospel Truth Family Hour”) and early on as the co-composer/music producer of Robert Rodriguez’​s critically acclaimed feature film debut “El Mariachi.”​

He was a contributing songwriter/founder & performer with post-new wave NYC band Mind Over Matter & later has fronted and managed recording & live projects while based in Los Angeles, California; Berlin, Germany, Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Richmond, Virginia; and currently Nashville, Tennessee.

His Lightstone Records catalog is distributed by The Orchard and Symphonic, pub admin via Sentric, and is repped for sync by SoStereo, Tunedge and others. Check out his recent single “Born Again in Tennessee (feat. The McCrary Sisters)” mixed by Shooter Jennings.

Lyrics

V1
I don’t waste my time no more waiting for the man
I don’t need no hook-up in a golden good-times van
But if you do, that’s cool for you. I don’t throw no shade
We’re all feeling good and you know we all got made, ‘cause….

CHORUS
A G D
Home is where my heart is at
Home is where I hang my hat
Home is looking at you and me
E G….
Born again right here right now… in Tenne-

(Back to verse)
…See

V2
When you feeling down and out – no direction home
Find a song that lifts you up down on Music Row
Head out with some good friends on a Cumberland escape
Now we’re feeling high and you know we all got it made, ‘cause….

CHORUS 2
A G D
Home is where our heart is at
Home is where we hang our hat
Home is looking at you and me
E G….
Born again right here right now… in Tenne-
(To Bridge)
…See

BR
A# C D D (Repeat 3x)
Last time D – E back to CHORUS

Repeat Chorus 2

TAG 1/2 Verse

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