Canaan Smith

After several years of making the rounds in Nashville, country singer/songwriter Canaan Smith struck gold with "Love You Like That," the platinum-selling chart-topper from his 2014 debut album, Bronco. Follow-up success seemed assured, but over the coming years, he languished in the major-label system and his career proceeded in fits and starts. By the decade's end, he'd left Mercury Records to sign with Florida Georgia Line's fledgling Round Here imprint. With a smaller label and a renewed artistic vision, Smith finally delivered his sophomore album, High Country Sound, in 20...