“Amen” by Kid Rock

"Amen" found Kid Rock in a preaching mood on Rock n Roll Jesus, his Atlantic album of 2007, and he took it to radio as the record's second single that November. He wrote it alone, produced it with Rob Cavallo as co-producer, and calls it the best song he has ever written. It opens on an acoustic guitar figure sampled from Bob Seger's "You'll Accomp'ny Me", then works through a state-of-the-nation sermon: poverty, war, race relations, crooked politicians and pastors who don't practice what they preach.

The arrangement stays mostly acoustic, with Kid Rock on guitars and piano, Paul Franklin on pedal steel, Stefanie Eulinberg on drums, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers carrying it into church. It climbed to 11 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer directed the video.

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