The life of a song is a journey. Some songs take years to travel until they grace the right ears. Some hit instantly. Some simply exist, never straying too far from those who created them. But the truth is nobody really knows if, when, and where a song will find a home.

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.

In a Breitbart profile, Farren, who penned “Checking In” with fellow Nashville songwriters Kenneth Hart and Garret Jacobs, told us “At some point along the way, you just swallow hard… There may be hurt, there may be pain, there may be years of history of bullshit or whatever. But at some point, you go, ‘Ya know what, I’m gonna be the best me I can be. I’m gonna pick up the phone and say hello and I love ya to the guy I call dad.’ He may be amazing. He may be awful. There’s something powerful that happens in just letting people know that they’re seen and that they’re heard. Letting a parent know they are seen and heard, man, it affects everything.”

And so the journey of a song began…and what a home it found.

@kuttfam0191

1 day agoMy daddy has been Home with the Lord for one year. He used to call me every morning at 10:00. There were times that I couldn’t answer, and I, too, got a message just checking in. I cried when I heard this song. A healing cry. Thank you!

@GinaPiscione-jn6tv

1 day agoLove this song and can relate so much to it. I lost my dad 7 years ago to cancer and still have his number in my phone and still try to call him. Thank you all so much for this song!

@christinewebb8473

1 day agoThis is synonymous with God, the father, and how we don’t pick up his call please pick up his call he’s waiting he loves you. Amen.

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