A down-home country singer with a pronounced twang and an open debt to Jason Aldean, not to mention bro-country crooners like Luke Bryan and Thomas Rhett, Conner Sweet made his mainstream debut in 2020 with the sentimental rallying call "Times Like These."
Born and raised in Hendersonville, a Tennessee town just outside of Nashville, Sweet grew up on country music, listening to the classics alongside modern hitmakers. He started playing guitar as he entered his adolescence in the early 2010s, beginning to write his own songs when he was 16, the same age he started cutting his...