Sam Hunt Says ‘Good Times’ Happen In the Grass

Sam Hunt is gearing up for his recently announced “Summer On The Outskirts” tour and is excited about everything an amphitheater tour involves. Sam told us, “The other bands, the food, the buses all parked back behind the amphitheater; it’s a whole environment.”

He continued, “A lot of them are just in parts of the town that are their own little thing, so it’s so familiar to me now because that’s really all I’ve played. I haven’t really done many arenas at all. So, it just feels like, it feels like our little home, a little home base headquarters there. And so, it’s very familiar to me at this point. The atmosphere there is being outside. To me, that’s big time in the summer.”

Hunt added, “I love being outside as much as I can, so the grass brings something to it. I don’t know, something about the grass on the hill and the environment. There are so many great amphitheaters with so many great artists that come through that people also have, is familiar for the folks who come out, too, because they’re going to go see a lot of times another one or two or three concerts at that same venue that summer. So, a lot of the good times that can be had in that community can be centered around those amphitheaters.”

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Sam Hunt’s SUMMER ON THE OUTSKIRTS 2023 Dates:

July 6 – Hartford, CT – Xfinity Theatre
July 7 – Gilford, NH – Bank of NH Pavilion
July 8 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
July 14 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
July 15 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater
July 16 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage
July 20 – Brandon, MS – Brandon Amphitheater
July 21 – Orange Beach, AL – The Wharf Amphitheater *
July 22 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
July 27 – Detroit, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 28 – Indianapolis, IN – Ruoff Music Center
July 29 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
August 3 – Carbondale, IL – Southern Illinois University-SIU Banterra Center**^
Aug 4 – Bonner Springs, KS – Azura Amphitheater ^
August 5 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Zoo Amphitheatre ^
August 11 – Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
August 12 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 13 – Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Harveys Outdoor Arena ^
August 18 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman***
August 19 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
August 20 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
August 24 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
August 25 – Syracuse, NY – St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview
August 26 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
September 7 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
September 8 – Atlanta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
September 9 – Raleigh, NC – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek

* On Sale March 17
** On Sale TBD
*** On Sale March 24

8 Sam Hunt Songs That Make Us Swoon

• 8. “House Party” (2015)

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  An upbeat fun song and a big hit for Sam. It’s one of his signature songs.

• 7. “Break Up in a Small Town” (2015)

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  Hunt 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)

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  In 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)

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  Hunt 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)

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  This 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)

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  Another 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)

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  The 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)

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  Just 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.”