Jo Smith—named one of Rolling Stone’s 10 New Artists You Need to Know in 2017 and CMT’s Next Women of Country 2018— is a country singer/songwriter originally from south Georgia. After high school, Smith moved to Nashville, and spent the next sixteen years prioritizing songwriting in pursuit of her dreams of being a signed recording artist. As a staff songwriter at various publishing houses, she wrote songs for other artists (Billy Ray Cyrus, Taylor Hicks, Cody Johnson), as well as for her own artist endeavors. In 2009, she signed with “the label of her heroes,” RCA, and starting touring as the opening act on several major tours: Blake Shelton’s All About Tonight tour, Chris Young and Thomas Rhett’s Liquid Neon tour, and Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley’s Locked and Reloaded tour. Old School Groove, from Smith’s Introducing Jo Smith EP was featured as a Highway Find on Sirius XM’s The Highway and became a fan favorite in the summer of 2017.