Performer pens protest song after incident at Track 29

Corey Smith has written and recorded “Chattanooga.”

Singer/songwriter Corey Smith has written and recorded a song called “Chattanooga” in response to the alleged censoring of his show last Friday night at Track 29.

Smith said in an interview Tuesday that before his taking the stage Friday, venue managers had asked through his tour manager that the artist not play his anthem “F— the Po Po” if “an official from the Chattanooga Beer Board and his men were present.”

Smith said he has omitted the song from some shows in the past and played it at others without incident, but he felt that an 18-and-older crowd in a club is “appropriate. I set it up in a way where it is not really controversial.”

Smith noted on his website on Saturday that he wrote the “Po Po” song in 2003, “when I was wrongfully arrested for disorderly conduct for voicing my displeasure with the way a road block near my house was being conducted by local law enforcement. Although the charges against me were later dropped, I felt compelled to write a song about my ordeal.”