Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt
Sam Lowry Huntis an American country music singer, songwriter and former college football player. Born in Cedartown, Georgia, Hunt played football in his high school and college years and once attempted to pursue a professional sports career before signing with MCA Nashville in 2014. Prior to his successful solo career, Hunt was credited for writing singles for Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Billy Currington, and Reba McEntire. His debut RIAA 2x Platinum-certified studio album, Montevallo, which includes three Platinum US Hot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 July 1946
CountryUnited States of America
Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.
I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.
When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.