 Among his early compositions was "Born to Run", which Emmylou Harris recorded in 1981 for her album, "Cimarron", and she continues to frequently perform the song in her concerts.Kennerly continued to live in London while he wrote songs, but, in 1983, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he started working with Harris on her semi-autobiographical concept album, "The Ballad of Sally Rose", co-writing and producing the album.Kennerley also collaborated with Harris on her albums "Thirteen" and "Bluebird", and writing the songs "In My Dreams" and "Heartbreak Hill".