Conner Smith: The Accident That Changed Everything & Finding Peace In The Deepest Valley
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Country artist Conner Smith joins Brooke Taylor and co-host Pastor Mark Evans on The Upload for his first in-depth conversation since the tragic accident that made headlines this past summer. Known for hits like “I Hate Alabama,” and “Creek Will Rise,” Conner has quickly risen through the country music ranks—touring festivals, releasing his debut album, and building a loyal fanbase. But behind the momentum was a season of profound heartbreak.
On the final day of CMA Fest, just one day after taking the Riverfront Stage, Conner was involved in a devastating accident that took a life. In this episode, he opens up with honesty and humility about the grief, trauma, and deep soul-searching that followed, and how the Lord became his anchor when the world around him collapsed.
Conner shares how God met him in the shock and silence, the community that rallied around him, and the spiritual “crushing and stripping” that has reshaped him in ways he never expected. He talks about learning to trust God in the valley, surrendering the weight he can’t carry alone, and how the peace he has today is only because of the presence of Christ in the darkest hours.
This is a powerful conversation about suffering, healing, and the God who restores what feels shattered beyond repair.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Hey, it's Connor Smith. On June the 8th, I was involved in an accident that caused someone to lose their life. In a moment, it's like a tornado runs through your house, and there's so much grief, and there's so much trauma. I turned off my phone and I put it in a drawer for four weeks. I felt like a joke moment. There's nothing here I can try to salvage. |
| 0:21.9 | God, you get to decide what you want to build. |
| 0:24.6 | And this is the upload. |
| 0:28.7 | We're just chatting about college football and how amazing it is, |
| 0:31.5 | but we're also chatting with Connor Smith and how amazing he is. |
| 0:34.6 | What's going on? |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome back to the upload. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah, thank you so much. |
| 0:44.1 | Good to be back. Lots happens since then. A little bit. We've talked about it before, kind of how we recorded a couple episodes. Things happened. The episodes were lost. Connors was one of them. |
| 0:50.6 | And I was actually really sad about it because we talked about spiritual warfare. |
| 0:54.5 | Great conversation. We had some pretty great conversation. Before we talk about anything, |
| 0:58.7 | on the upload, we have these faith-filled conversations and just really want to dive into |
| 1:04.1 | Connor as a human being, not as an artist or anything else, just Connor as a human being. |
| 1:10.0 | If you would describe to someone your |
| 1:12.6 | faith, what would you say? |
| 1:14.6 | That's a good question. |
| 1:16.5 | Also, for this conversation, I love you that you brought my pastor into the conversation. |
| 1:20.8 | Mock is here. |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah, pass the mack. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, if I were to describe my faith, I think every word that comes in mind is cliche, and they're cliche for a reason, but I mean, my rock, right? Like, especially kind of coming out of the season, we're coming out of, it's such a, uh, it was such a reminder of like, you can build your house in the sand, you can build your house on identity, you can build your house on your career, you know, for us, your music or your ticket sales. Or you can build your house on the rock, |
| 1:47.7 | which is salvation in Christ, which is identity in Christ, which is community in Christ. |
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