{"id":1160,"date":"2018-02-02T12:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:42:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T12:42:02","slug":"1160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/02\/02\/1160\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt Set to Return to the Recording Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sam Hunt had some new music up his sleeve when he took to the stage this week at the press launch of Luke Bryan&#8217;s &#8216;What Makes You Country&#8217; tour but he had a last minute change of mind for fear of muddling up his words.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI was going to try and work up a new song, but I haven\u2019t memorized some of the lyrics yet,\u201d Hunt commented.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He decided to play it safe and performed &#8216;Take Your Time&#8217; and shared one of his earliest memories of Bryan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI discovered Luke\u2019s music several years ago when I was in college,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cI came home one weekend and walked in the house and everyone was gathered around the TV, and my mom said, \u2018Hey come over here. Your brother\u2019s in a country music video.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>That video was Bryan\u2019s first, &#8216;All My Friends Say,&#8217; and it was filmed at Hunt\u2019s brother\u2019s fraternity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe were all wound up and excited because we got to see 2.5 seconds of the back of my brother\u2019s head in this Luke Bryan video,\u201d Hunt recalled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-embed-container=\"youtube\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/NOoNcDkJhsI?rel=0\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This year Hunt will be touring with Bryan along with Jon Pardi, Carly Pearce and Morgan Wallen. Hunt confirmed his set on the tour will feature new music as well as some of his back catalog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI had planned on having music out there before now, but with all the other things going on, I hadn\u2019t quite organized it into a compact album, market-ready version \u2026 So I do have some songs. I\u2019m going [in the studio] Feb. 5 through March and April and I\u2019m hitting it hard before we get out on the road, so I plan on having new music out a month or two before we strike out and hit the road when I may not have as much time to write.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sam\u2019s curating and headlining his own festival in Nashville this spring!  Tickets on sale next week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thenashional?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thenashional<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xJEwKihvCZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/xJEwKihvCZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGSttfX4cs\">pic.twitter.com\/DGSttfX4cs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sam Hunt (@SamHuntMusic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamHuntMusic\/status\/959155890527068161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Hunt had some new music up his sleeve when he took to the stage this week at the press launch of Luke Bryan&#8217;s &#8216;What Makes You Country&#8217; tour but he had a last minute change of mind for fear of muddling up his words. \u201cI was going to try and work up a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,40,58,57],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/hunt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}