Kane Brown Gets Up Close and Personal With New Song

Kane Brown gets up close and personal on his new track, Homesick. So close, that he even says his name in the song. In a recent interview, he talked about the choice of dropping his own name.

“I just hate talking about myself as it is,” says Brown. “So when I’m singing, ‘It says Kane Brown on a sign with a line out the door,’ it’s weird to me. But, I mean, it makes sense.”

“Homesick” is a personal tale about the constant push and pull that artists feel between home and the road. Brown took along three co-writers, Taylor Phillips, Brock Berryhill and Matthew McGinn, along with him for a few concert dates in spring 2018, and they saw him battling the pangs of separation from then-fiancée Katelyn Jae.

RCA Nashville released “Homesick” to country radio via PlayMPE on June 27 with an Aug. 5 add date. Despite Brown’s initial reluctance to insert his name into it, the song’s relatability and sincerity make it one of his most natural performances to date. “I think I sang it maybe three times, and then we were done,” he says of his final vocal. “It was easy, I guess just because it’s so personal.”

Watch the video here.

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