Robert Counts

Robert Counts bragged of his redneck roots on "What Do I Know," but the sound of this 2020 single was slicker than its boast, demonstrating how the country singer cleverly incorporated elements of R&B-infused country-pop in his own sound. When he covered a song called "Crazy" on his eponymous 2019 debut EP, it wasn't the Patsy Cline classic, it was the 2006 pan-genre hit by Gnarls Barkley, a sure sign that Counts is a modern country singer. Born and raised in Franklin, a Tennessee town not far south of Nashville, Robert Counts began playing and singing music at church, leadi...