Hey y’all this is Conner Smith, and this is my new song "Creek Will Rise."
Hey y’all this is Conner Smith, and this is my new song "Creek Will Rise" on …
Hey y’all this is Conner Smith, and that was my new song "Creek Will Rise."
So, my new song "Creek Will Rise" is really just a riverbank love story. I love all the twists and turns this song will take you on, and my goal is that you’re driving fast by the time it ends.
I feel like as a songwriter, I feel like every day we’re just showing up to work and we’re like gold miners, we’re just like hittin’ rocks and once in a while you get some gold, and I feel like that’s what this song was. I had the idea, and it came, I say all the time, someone will tell me something and I’ll say ‘good Lord willin’ the creek don’t rise,’ I say it all the time, and I thought, I was cleaning my house one day and I thought about the twist that you could have, of what if you wanted to get stuck, and you wanted that creek to rise, and when I thought of that, it had something to it. I was on the road with Thomas Rhett and he had three writers out; Chase McGill, Parker Welling and Chris LaCorte, so they were writing out there on the road, on the bus, we were somewhere on the West coast, and so TR [Thomas Rhett] writes 24/7. He wakes up, until he goes on stage, until he goes to sleep, he’s writing songs. So, I had about a 30-minute window in there that he was not there that I just walked on the bus saying, "I got an idea, I got an idea." So, I threw out the idea, and we chased it down and we found this tempo, we found this energy and it felt so fresh and so different. I remember I walked, we were writing this song after I had gotten off stage, and then I had to go back on stage to sing with Thomas during his set, and when I got back, the cowriters had written most of that bridge, and they said "watch this,’" and that was the part that really brought the song to life, and they got to the last line of that bridge and I said "the radio won’t let me tell you the rest," and that was where it just felt like the song went to the next level.
Just 22 years old and already a seasoned veteran of Nashville’s elite songwriting community, Conner Smith has become one of Country’s most hotly-anticipated new artists – an uncommon talent mixing prime-of-life passion with old-soul perspective. After penning his first song at 6 and scoring a publishing deal at 16, the Country prodigy wrote five of the six songs on his Zach Crowell-produced 2022 debut collection DIDN’T GO TOO FAR (The Valory Music Co.). Featuring his first Top 40 hit “Learn From It,” viral smash “I Hate Alabama,” and fan-favorite “Take It Slow,” the charismatic effort laid an artistic foundation that earned Smith 2022 Artist to Watch status from Spotify, Amazon Music and Opry NextStage, while also making him the only Country artist on Pandora’s Ten List 2022 and securing 2023 recognition from MusicRow Next Big Thing, CMT Listen Up, and more. As Smith continues to grow up in full view of his fans – both on the page and the stage – CMT calls him “an unstoppable force to be reckoned with.” That momentum will keep building throughout 2023 as Smith promises and delivers a new batch of “next level” music as reflected with his new bluegrass-inflected twang rocking single “Creek Will Rise,” headed to Country radio this spring. Touring alongside Thomas Rhett, Parker McCollum and Ryan Hurd last year, Smith is currently on the road headlining his first-ever IF I WENT TO COLLEGE TOUR presented by the Monster Entergy Outbreak tour with special guests Mackenzie Carpenter and Jonathan Hutcherson. He’ll also support Chase Rice on select dates in March before joining Luke Bryan’s COUNTRY ON TOUR this summer. For a full list of tour dates and more, visit ConnerSmithMusic.com.
