Sam Hunt’s Major Shift In Life Since The Birth Of His Daughter
Sam Hunt became a father in the summer of 2022 when his first child, a daughter named Lucy Lu, was born. When we interviewed Sam yesterday (2/21), he told us…
Sam Hunt became a father in the summer of 2022 when his first child, a daughter named Lucy Lu, was born. When we interviewed Sam yesterday (2/21), he told us just how much his daughter had changed his life.
"It's changed drastically. I mean, the way I experience everything on a day-to-day basis has drastically changed. I drove down to live outside of town; there's a little pond and gravel driveway; we live in a little cabin with a little pond several hundred yards from the cabin. When we first moved out there, I'd go down to the pond occasionally, but not really all that often."
He continued, "Almost on a daily basis, I'll take Lu down to the pond and just sit her down on top of the canoe or just in the grass there, and I experience the pond, the birds, and whatever else is going on out there in nature in a way that I was just numb to before having a child. That goes for every other little thing, coffee in the morning, picking up a book and reading it while she's playing on the floor, all those things that I didn't get a whole lot of stimulation from in the past all of a sudden I am experiencing it in a whole new way."
Sam said that it has not yet changed the songs that he is writing. He told us, "In my mind, sometimes I think I am intimidated writing about that part of my life. It almost feels, at times, too sacred to dabble in. I haven't necessarily tried to tap into those experiences yet, but typically most of the songwriting that I put out will be will be songs that I write two or three years before they came out, and a lot of times, they are inspired by the time in my life that was two or three years before that. There is sort of a delay there that happens."
Hunt says that his thoughts and feelings are geared more toward his family. He said, "I have found myself over the past few months tapping into those feelings about family life and being home and having a new child and the responsibilities of being a father. I feel like having a child sort of woke me up from this mid-thirties slumber sort of thing. So, it's been awesome."
Sam Hunt came into country music and made his mark in 2014 with his debut album Montevallo, which was nominated for Best Country Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015. His towering, good looks made Sam an instant country star. As we celebrate his 37th birthday today (12/8), we take a look at and countdown his eight best songs.
8. "House Party" (2015)
UMGAn upbeat fun song and a big hit for Sam. It’s one of his signature songs.
7. "Break Up in a Small Town" (2015)
UMGHunt discussed the process of making the song, saying it was born when he was "singing that chorus melody late one night while riding around trying to come up with song ideas.”
6. "Take Your Time" (2014)
UMGIn the music video for this song, his second radio single, Sam fights a man who was abusing his girlfriend, freeing up the woman to leave with her baby. This song was actually promoted to pop radio six months after its country release.
5. "Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s" (2020)
UMGHunt said of writing the song's content, "In the 90s, there was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or more, so break ups in the 90's were not easier. The trick was not filling it up with a bunch of technology references and trying to find the story within it. It's just the world's so much smaller now."
4. "Body Like a Back Road" (2017)
UMGThis song spent 20 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart – this made Sam the solo country artist with the second longest run at the top of the 59-year-old “Hot Country Songs” chart. Hank Snow's, "I'm Moving On" spent 21 weeks at the top.
3. "Kinfolks" (2019)
UMGAnother chart-topper for Hunt. Rolling Stone reviewed the song saying in part, "Acoustic guitar arpeggios that lead into big, bright choruses of banjo, vocal snippets, and wah-wah guitar." Well said.
2. "Leave the Night On" (2014)
UMGThe first song that introduced us to this former football player from Georgia. It was his first single, and his first number one song.
1."Hard to Forget" (2020)
UMGJust as music critics started saying that Sam just wasn’t country enough, he kicked off a song with an original recording of Webb Pearce’s 1953 hit, “There Stands The Glass.”
