NOW STREAMING – “Creek Will Rise”
Connor Smith’s new song, “Creek Will Rise,” is an energetic twist of phrase, hoping for a little assist from mother nature with the girl he likes. Connor co-wrote the song with Chris LaCorte, Chase McGill, and Parker Welling, and it was all thanks to perfect timing and a great idea.
Conner Smith – Creek Will Rise 1:04
“I feel like a songwriter, every day we’re just showin’ up to work and we’re like gold miners. We’re just hittin’ rocks and once in a million you get some gold, and I feel like that’s what this song was. I had the idea, I say, all the time, ‘good Lord willin’ and the creek don’t rise,’ and I thought about the twist that you could have of like, but what if you wanted to get stuck, and you wanted that creek to rise. And so, I was on the road with Thomas Rhett and he had three writers out – Chase, McGill, Parker Welling, and Chris LaCorte. So, they were writin’ out there on the road on the bus, and TR writes 24 seven. He wakes up until he goes on stage, until he goes to sleep, he’s writin’ songs. So I had about a 30 minute window in there that he was not there that I walked on the bus and threw out the idea. We chased it down and we found this tempo and we found this energy. It felt so fresh, and it felt so different, and we were writin’ this song after I’d gotten off stage, and then I had to go back up on stage to sing with Thomas during his set. And when I got back, the co-writers 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, ‘And 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.”