Bury Me in Georgia

"His new single is just such an experiment. It will probably get a cleaner edit before it gets sent to country radio, but the album version is a different animal altogether. Featuring heavily distorted vocals, instrumental breaks, and a darker, more aggressive tone, the song proves that the middle of the road isn't someplace Kane Brown feels comfortable staying in for too long."

(975country.com, March 2023)

On February 10, 2023 Kane Brown was holding the top spot on the Radio (Billboard Country Airplay) Chart for the 9th time in his career already. Just like for his very first chart-topper (2017's 'What If's' with Lauren Alaina) it was again a duet. For the R&B-influenced ballad 'Thank God' he asked the woman to his side, for whom he made the song (not written by himself) a devoted love declaration: his very own wife Katelyn Brown.

She by now has 2 kids with Kane Brown and let her own musical ambitions take a step back to a college education in music business (and eventually becoming a mother). All of that made the success of 'Thank God', which received the Video of the Year-Award at the CMT-Music Awards 2023 and which currently holds at over 87 mio. streams at Spotify, even more fulfilling. As she admitted at the awards show in April of this year: "This is all so new to me and when we recorded this song a year ago, I never in my life would ever think that this was ever gonna happen."

Right after the song and third single from the current album "Different Man" had reached the top of the charts, Kane Brown released the follow-up single - and made a stylistic u-turn with it. With stomping rock-beats and screaming electric guitars he once again proves with 'Bury Me in Georgia' (written together with Jordan Schmidt, Matt McGinn and Josh Hog), that he is one of the most versatile artists in today's music industry.

While Kane Brown was actually born in Tennessee, he did grow up in the state of Georgia. Therefore the song and it's message are uncompromisingly dedicated to this state, when starting out with ominous church bells recalling Ennio Morricone: And remember what I told ya when I die, bury me in Georgia.

Indeed producer Dann Huff slightly adapted the song to make it a little more radio-friendly, by shaving some of it's edges off, thereby losing about a quarter of the song's length from the album version. That's too bad, but obviously does not hinder it's success. For after only 17 weeks it already holds at number 12 on the Radio (Billboard Country Airplay) Chart and at over 10 mio. Spotify streams. Therefore putting it right on track to become Kane Brown's 10th number-1 hit.