DEBUT SINGLE – “Learn From It”
Conner Smith was born and raised in Nashville and his mom was an entertainment reporter for the local NBC affiliate, so he was exposed to the music industry at a very young age. Some people find it hard to believe that Conner started writing songs when he was just six years old and was signed to the performance rights organization BMI at the age of nine, but it’s true. “One of the first songs I ever wrote was called ‘Small Town Big Dream Boy,’” Conner recalls. “And it’s funny lookin’ back on it, it says, ‘I know a boy who lived in Nashville Tennessee, but he always had a bigger dream.. Baseball player, football star, everyone said he was gonna go far. He was a small town big dream boy.’ And that was one of the first songs I wrote.”
But there was one song Conner wrote as a young kid that he knows broke his mom’s heart. He says, “I remember there was one point – my mom still holds this against me – where she was working a lot, just with her job. And so, I was a little kid and I wrote a song about how she was never home, and that just tore her apart. And I still feel bad about that to this day, but I was just writin’ what I was livin’.”
Conner must have been doing a lot of livin’ as a kid because he was writing songs every day, every chance he would get.
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“One of the first songs I ever wrote was called ‘Small Town Big Dream Boy.’ And it’s funny lookin’ back on it, it says, ‘I know a boy who lived in Nashville Tennessee, but he always had a bigger dream. Baseball player, football star, everyone said he was gonna go far. He was a small town big dream boy.’ And that was one of the first songs I wrote. I remember there was one point – my mom still hold this against me – where she was workin’ a lot, just with her job. And so, I was a little kid and I wrote a song about how she was never home, and that just tore her apart. And I still feel bad about that to this day, but I was just writin’ what I was livin’.”