Hunt's blood alcohol level was .173, more than twice the legal limit of .08 in Tennessee. Sam Hunt says he's been inspired by Ken Burns' 'Country Music' and is considering a 'nod to tradition' on his new album. But at the same time, I felt like it was just — it was too perfect.” “He was like, ‘Can I play it for y’all just so you can hear the track?’ He said we didn’t really get real far on the song.” Singing: “There stands the glass that will ease —” “I thought what we were going to do was take the existing ‘Hard to Forget’ song, and try to sing it in this track. Sam Hunt Samples Webb Pierce on New Party Track ‘Hard to Forget’ Hunt deftly weaves the honky-tonk singer’s “There Stands the Glass” into an irresistible mash-up of traditional and current

Baby, you’re playing hard to forget.” “I feel like we got it to a certain point, and then he was like, ‘I think I’m good.’” “And at that point it was like, OK, it’s like you’re putting the puzzle together, and you get the borders.” “He just wants time to think about it and live with it, and at the end of the day, he just has a certain barometer and a certain meter that makes a song him.” “And then Zach sort of brings the whole thing together?” “Yeah Zach — I don’t think his importance to the Sam sound can be overstated.” “The sample, it’s the backbone of the song, but it’s actually — the sample’s not in there very much.” “What did you think needed to happen to make it, A, a Sam Hunt song and, B, a Sam Hunt hit?” “The main thing I did was sped it up.” Singing: “There stands the glass that will ease all my pain.” “Those are the things that he does so well. "I finished up a new record this weekend and got together with the guys yesterday to start learning new songs!" Specific details on the tour have yet to be revealed, although it is confirmed he will perform at the iHeartCountry Festival presented by Capital One. The single has hit the top of the Billboard Country Airplay chart, as well as No. A post shared by Sam Hunt (@samhuntmusic) on Jan 29, 2020 at 1:52pm PST, Hunt's upcoming album will mark his first new project since his debut breakthrough album, Montevallo, in 2014. “Hello.” “Hey. he wrote in the caption of the post on Instagram. I hope so. Girl, you’re looking so good, it’s driving me out of mine. The country star was pulled over in the early morning hours of November 21 after police received reports of a vehicle driving south in the northbound lanes in East Nashville. And he goes, ‘No, no, I want to write a whole new song. I’ve got 15-year-old daughter that was singing on the last chorus with a bunch of her buddies.” Singing: “You’re breaking my heart. We ended up recording drums on it, but I didn’t use any of them. 1s since 2005. That would have been music that my granddad listened to growing up. A post shared by Sam Hunt (@samhuntmusic) on Jan 29, 2020 at 1:52pm PST Hunt's upcoming album will mark his first new project since his debut breakthrough album, Montevallo, in 2014. Country superstar Sam Hunt brought his latest hit to the 2020 CMT Music Awards on Wednesday night (Oct. 21), performing “Hard to Forget” while all smiles.

On November 21st, the country singer was … Rounding out the team was Hunt’s secret weapon, the producer Zach Crowell, who came up making Southern hip-hop beats. It’s your girl, Lizzo.” [laughs]. I got a bottle of whiskey, but I got no proof that you showed up tonight in that dress just to mess with my head.” “You’ve sort of gained this reputation as the guy in Nashville who can incorporate hip-hop in a way that feels natural.” Singing: “ Act like I didn’t see her. Wearing a yellow tee and jeans, Hunt was beamed in from the Estate at Cherokee Dock in Nashville, and surrounded by a band all clad in face masks. They just didn’t sound right. Stream: “What the Constitution Means to Me”. And it’s putting those — you know, kind of putting a ribbon on it or the bow on it, where it starts to feel like it’s getting finished.” Singing: “So much for so long, out of sight, out of mind. “Hard to Forget” comes from Southside, Hunt’s long-awaited sophomore studio album which dropped earlier this year.

I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh. © 2020 Billboard. A post shared by iHeartCountry (@iheartcountry) on Jan 28, 2020 at 6:00am PST. That record gave Hunt several hits including "Leave The Night On," "Take Your Time," "House Party," "Break Up In A Small Town," and "Make You Miss Me." The throwback track, deployed the way West famously uses soul and R&B samples, is “There Stands the Glass,” a fixture of the Grand Ole Opry from nearly 70 years ago. After arriving to the scene, officers said Hunt smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes and tried to give his credit card when asked for a driver's license. 1 on Billboard’s country airplay chart and reached No. The Nashville boundary-pusher Sam Hunt and five all-star collaborators built “Hard to Forget,” his latest country radio No. All of a sudden, it hit me. See how they made it sound modern in the latest Diary of a Song episode. We’re all hanging out like, ‘Oh, I’m sure you got this line.’ ‘Beat this line.’” Singing: “You’ve got a cold heart and the cold hard truth.” “‘Cold heart’ is throwback to Hank Williams Sr., and then I actually think Ashley Gorley said the line —” Singing: “Got a bottle of whiskey, but I got no proof.” “Which is probably my favorite line of the song.” “It was a big run-on thing of all the country hook lyrics that Nashville’s kind of known for.” Singing: “So much for so long, out of sight, out of mind. Oh, you’re breaking my heart. So as I’m walking out of the restaurant, I was like, ‘there stands the —’ [beatboxing] And so I made that track.” Singing: “There stands the glass.” “Super slow.” Singing: “That will ease all my pain.” “I’ve done tons of beats like this just for fun.” “And had you ever sampled anything that old?” “No, not that old.” “So what was the first version of ‘Hard to Forget’ that you heard?” “It all started with Sam and I, and Luke Laird just doing a session.” “You know when you get in a room with Ashley Gorley, he’s trying to write a hit song.” “I had an idea that day that I started and I came in with. Sam Hunt was a day away from releasing his new song “Sinning With You” when things went sideways. Click here for the winners list from the 2020 CMT Music Awards. He can really find that sweet spot.” “I’m very much the guy who loves to squeeze a bunch of little candy hooks, here and there.” “When you put a happiness in the background, it kind of comes through.” “He brought in my daughter and some of her friends. All I want to use is ‘Hard to Forget.’ I just want to use that line.’” “We ended up turning the Webb Pierce track off, I think, and picking up guitars.” “Josh and I were sort of joking and talking about Buck Owens.” Singer: “I got the hungries for your love.” “We’re like, ‘You’ve got a —” “Cold heart.” “That’s a Bakersfield sound, you know? The 35-year-old singer dropped his new song… In addition to his new music, Hunt's also previously said he intends to dedicate a chunk of 2020 to touring in support of the new album.

1, around a sample of Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass,” from 1953. This feels like a hit.’” “One night, we had a tracking session. Sam Hunt has officially completed his highly anticipated sophomore album. A few years later in 2017, Hunt released "Body Like A Back Road," which became his biggest hit followed by "Downtown's Dead," released in 2018.

Let me see if I can kick up an idea. That record gave Hunt several hits including "Leave The Night On," "Take Your Time," "House Party," "Break Up In A Small Town," and "Make You Miss Me.".
Look, we can samples for days.” [laughter] Singing: “Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.” “I just had this idea that I wanted it to bounce.” Singing: “I got the horses in the back.” Singing: “Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.” “Man, what’s the deal? What country artist could actually legitimately pull this off?’” “Immediately in the room, Ashley and I both looked at each other like, this is awesome.” “I was like, wow, that’s probably too crazy, but if anybody can pull this off it would be Sam.” “What was it about the sample that spoke to you?” “I think the fact that it was so far — it went all the way back to the ’50s. And trying to put that on top of a traditional country thing like Webb Pierce that goes way deeper south —” “And I remember us thinking like, you know, it needs to sound like a bar sing-along, like a ‘Friends In Low Places.’” Singing: “Where the whiskey drowns and the beer —” “And so we started taking these pieces of all of our influences, and putting it on this very current-sounding track.” “What was the next step?” “You got all these great songwriters that are going to be on this song. Girl, you’re looking so good, it’s driving me out of mine. Sam Hunt performs onstage at The Estate at Cherokee Dock in Lebanon, Tennessee for the 2020 CMT Awards broadcast on Oct. 21, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/arts/music/sam-hunt-hard-to-forget.html I combine two worlds on this song because the Webb Pierce sample came along after starting the ‘Hard to Forget’ idea.” “I had this idea playing ‘Hard to Forget.’ I was with Josh and Sam, and I was like, ‘I think I have this really good idea for a title.’” “When somebody has a title like that, we’re all like, ‘Oh, yes, let’s write that.’” “I was more excited about the idea ‘Hard to Forget’ than I was about the song we ended up writing that day.” “So it just sort of went in a stack.” “I remember thinking about ‘Hard to Forget’ and thinking, ‘Oh, that’s the kind of hook we need.’ But then I thought, well, I’ve already started this song with Shane and Josh, and there’s three writers on the Webb Pierce sample. All-Star Game would feel like. I told Luke, I was like, let me just think on this for a couple months. At this point, fans have heard two songs from the upcoming album including "Kinfolks," released in October 2019 and "Sinning With You," shared at the beginning of the year on January 3. You know what I mean? Apart from the use of a sped-up sample and 808 drums borrowed from rap, Hunt included nods, vocally and lyrically, to his influences like Williams and Owens while targeting the sort of barroom singalong perfected by Brooks on 1990s smashes like “Friends in Low Places.”. “Hard to Forget,” which became Hunt’s seventh No. 26 on the all-genre Hot 100, begins not with Hunt’s own voice, but that of Pierce, a 1950s honky-tonk star known for his nasal warble and Nudie suits. He’ll hear something like that — goes, it needs to be up here at this tempo.” “And then all of a sudden, it felt like, ‘Oh, crap!

So the sound of it is what was so familiar to me.” “It just like transported you back to childhood?” “Yeah, right. But by reaching so far into country music’s past, Hunt and his collaborators were able to create a thoroughly modern sound. Webb Pierce, Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Garth Brooks … Kanye West? We’d pay at the same pumps, flip through the same stations, and slow down for the same curves.” “If I become too conscious of it, then I can force it, and it doesn’t work as well because there are songs that I’ve never put out where I’m trying too hard to blend genres as if that’s now a responsibility of mine.” “From your vantage point, where did ‘Hard To Forget’ begin?” “I had been eating breakfast at this little spot over near my house, and this song, ‘There Stands the Glass’ came on by Webb Pierce.” Singing: “There stands the glass.” “And so I’m a big Kanye West fan and I was like, I want — like, if Kanye came across a bin of country records, I wonder what he would do with something like that? I can’t remember exactly what it was because it was, like, so-so.” “Somewhere in session, we could just tell, not that it was stale, but I was kind of sitting there.” “About halfway through, we broke for lunch, and Luke said, ‘I had this sample, man, I wanted to play you.’” “I hadn’t even thought about playing this track for him.