Jon Kahn

Jon Kahn

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AMERICAN SONGWRITER SPECIAL: Award-Winning Songwriter Michael Farren’s Heartfelt Performance of ‘Checking In’ Reminds Us All to Call Our Dads

A little less than two years ago, Breitbart News caught wind of a song that was starting to go viral on Tik Tok and Instagram. No fancy music video. No money behind it. Just one of its co-writers, Michael Farren, sitting outside a trailer in rural Tennessee with an acoustic guitar. The intimate performance along with intensely poignant lyrics, crafted by Farren, Ken Hart, and Garrett Jacobs, was all it took to send listeners reaching for the Kleenex box….and then reaching for the phone to call their dads, or searching for messages from their Dads who had passed. The song was called “Checking In.”

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In October of 2022, Breitbart News became aware of a song called “Checking In” that was making waves on Tik Tok and Instagram. It was a simple performance recorded on an iPhone outside a camper somewhere in rural nowhere on the outskirts of Nashville: sung by one of its writers, Michael Farren. The song’s message was equally simple: in a fast-moving world, find the time to call your Dad. That message resonated with us and with you, the readers.

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