Jacob Hackworth is an American country singer-songwriter from West Plains, Missouri. He grew up singing in church and school choir, worked on the railroad after high school, and began playing guitar during long stretches away from home before returning to Missouri and performing local shows. He moved to Nashville in 2019 to focus on songwriting, and in 2022 signed a publishing deal with Goat Island Sound and Boom Music Group, with Warner Chappell handling administration. Before releasing his own music as an artist, Jacob Hackworth built a strong Nashville résumé as a songwriter, co-writing Bailey Zimmerman’s “Rock and a Hard Place,” Corey Kent’s “This Heart,” Morgan Wallen’s “Jack and Jill,” and several songs recorded by Tucker Wetmore, including “Wine Into Whiskey.” In 2025, he began stepping forward as a performer with “When I Don’t,” followed by “You Ain’t,” which he wrote during a break from Tucker Wetmore’s Waves on a Sunset Tour, and “Bad as I Do.” That same period included touring activity with Wetmore and a performance at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. In 2026, Jacob Hackworth signed with The Neal Agency for booking and with MCA in collaboration with Goat Island Sound, then released “What Took You So Long” through Mercury Nashville. The single became a major radio milestone, arriving as the most-added country song of its impact week and setting a Country Aircheck/Mediabase add-board record for a new artist debut single.