When it comes to rap music there is a definite type of style -- an edgy vibe, gold chains and a baseball cap with a flat bill cocked jauntily to the side. When it comes to country music the standard ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT John Smith, aka Big Smo, is a country music star on the cusp of the Next Big Country Thing: Hip-hop/country fusion. On the eve of the release of his first major label (Warner) album, ...

Twelve years after releasing his first album, the man known as Big Smo has become a superstar. He mashes country and rap into what the mammoth Tennessee native affectionately calls hick-hop. After ...

It has been less than a year since Big Smo released his latest album, “We the People,” but the Tennessee-based artist is already in manager Dan Nelson’s Nashville studio working on new music. The ...

Homegrown in Tennessee, Big Smo, the self-proclaimed Boss of the Stix, seamlessly weaves together his work, play, lifestyle and music on the farm. With over 30 million views on YouTube, selling almost ...

For someone as down-home as Big Smo, his story is as 21st century as it gets. He’s a rural-Tennessee native raised equally on country and rap; he’s a family man, a party animal and a road… By ...