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Sam Hunt: Where Has He Been?

Sam Hunt is back on country radio with his new song “Kinfolks” but he seemed to disappear in the last year on social media. He’s been writing songs, along with…

Where Sam Hunt Has Been For 12 Months?
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Sam Hunt is back on country radio with his new song "Kinfolks" but he seemed to disappear in the last year on social media. He's been writing songs, along with playing a couple of shows.

Sam explained, "Because I haven't had any new music out, I just felt a little funny about being active on Instagram or I guess putting myself out there like I had before. So I guess it felt like from the outside looking in that I had disappeared but to me, I'd been just doing the same old thing that I've been doing."

He added, "So I finally finished up with that twelve months cycle and got some songs together and started recording them and this is the first I thought, 'Well we'll put this song 'Kin Folks' out first and then from there just kind of trickle out The rest of the record.'"

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.