An associate of Florida Georgia Line -- he first gained attention in Nashville as the songwriter of "New Truck" and "Countryside," two of their latter-day hits -- Redferrin sounds a bit like FGL's wiry, playful little brother. Ratcheting up the group's light electronic underpinnings and adding a defiant edge to his Southern drawl, Redferrin updated bro country for the 2020s, making it bolder and slicker. That shift was apparent on his breakthrough single "Jack and Diet Coke," a simmering party anthem pulled from Old No. 7, his debut EP released early in 2024. Born Blake Redferrin in White House, Tennessee, Redferrin spent his formative years devoted to dirt bikes, carving out a spot on the professional motocross circuit. By his early twenties, a serious crash made him feel the collected weight of his repeated injuries, so he decided to pursue music. He started playing guitar years earlier, when his father brought him home a Gibson, but it was his retirement from motocross that spurred him to write songs. Motocross nevertheless played a pivotal part in his musical development. Shortly into his creative endeavors, he reconnected with Tyler Hubbard, the Florida Georgia Line star who races dirt bikes in his spare time. Hubbard hired Redferrin for Tree Vibez Music, the publishing company owned by Hubbard and his FGL partner Brian Kelley, in 2019. While on Tree Vibez, Redferrin co-wrote Florida Georgia Line's "New Truck" and "Countryside," Nelly's "Lil Bit," and Dean Brody & the Reklaws' "I Can't Help Myself," a country smash in Canada. After spending two years as a professional songwriter at Tree Vibez Music, Redferrin started independently issuing singles. Over the course of 2021, he released three singles -- "Red in My Last Name," "Wouldn't Hurt," "Stuck" -- then delivered two subsequent tunes ("Tell 'Em Why" and "Doin' Good") before signing with Warner Music Nashville in the middle of 2022. After releasing "Mossy Oak" and "Downhome Dreams," he issued "Jack and Diet Coke," the light yet moody single that attracted millions of streaming spins after its release in June 2023. "Jack and Diet Coke" anchored Old No. 7, an EP released in February 2024. Old No. 7 also featured the singles "Miss Summer" and "Doin' Life" -- the latter was released as a promotional single preceding the release of the EP.