Kane Brown

Kane Brown

Kane Brown’s voice sounds like charcoal-filtered molasses. Deep and rich and rarely in a hurry.
Over the phone, he calmly listens to the next question and takes his time, delivering his answers in a measured, deliberate drawl. He also says, “Nah, man, you’re good,” a lot.
His laidback demeanor seems at odds with all that is happening around the country singer, and it is all happening in a very short time. Brown turns 22 on Wednesday, the same day that his newest single, “Used to Love You Sober,” drops on iTunes.
In just a couple of weeks, Brown, who attended Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe, Red Bank, Ridgeland and Soddy-Daisy high schools — “We moved around a lot. My childhood was hard, but I got through it,” he says — has become an online sensation and is currently one of the hottest, most-talked-about artists in Nashville, in part, he believes, because the country folks don’t quite know what to do or think with him. They’ve never seen a previously no-name country artist go from having a few fans on Facebook, Spotify and iTunes just a month ago to now having more than 785,000 (with a bullet) Facebook fans. He got 400,000 of those in just the last two weeks.