{"id":1317243,"date":"2019-12-13T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815644"},"modified":"2019-12-13T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:34:12","slug":"sam-hunt-gives-career-advice-to-his-younger-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/sam-hunt-gives-career-advice-to-his-younger-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt Gives Career Advice to His Younger Self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n39m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Holidays are a natural time to look back and reflect, and earlier this month at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815409\/photos-stars-strings-in-new-york\/\">Stars and Strings<\/a> RADIO.com event in Brooklyn, New York, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/sam-hunt\">Sam Hunt<\/a> did just that. <\/p>\n<p>During this video interview (around the 3:00 minute mark), host Kelly Ford describes the meteoric rise of Hunt\u2019s early career, and asks, \u201cWhat would Sam Hunt, now, say to Sam Hunt, then, to prepare?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcFNFVBrGNQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcFNFVBrGNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI guess I would stress just to hunker down and hold on. I don\u2019t know that I had my seat belt on when I first, I guess, got going, and it kind of ramped up pretty quickly,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven\u2019t put out as much music as I would have liked to, because the first couple of years I was touring so much and not really writing on the road.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIf I could go back, I would continue writing, and try to stay creative and try to continue to work on music while I was on the road. That would have definitely helped me in terms of getting ready for another record, so I don\u2019t think the delay would have been quite as long.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"731b109f\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/12\/Sam-Hunt-2-1575570298.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images for RADIO.COM) <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hunt released his breakout album, <em>Montevallo<\/em>, in 2014, then landed a smash single with \u201cBody Like a Back Road\u201d in 2017. His newest single is \u201cKinfolks.\u201d In the interview, Hunt indicates that he\u2019ll submit his new album to the record label in January and anticipates a release sometime in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll turn it in and move on to tour planning after that. It\u2019ll have to come out before the tour starts,\u201d he says around the 5:00 mark. \u201cWe\u2019ll announce the tour and the album release and the next single, and I\u2019ll try to trickle out songs, you know, instead of just waiting on the full album. Maybe I\u2019ll put another song or two out before the actual album drops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815644\/sam-hunt-gives-career-advice-to-his-younger-self\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 39m ago Holidays are a natural time to look back and reflect, and earlier this month at the Stars and Strings RADIO.com event in Brooklyn, New York, Sam Hunt did just that. During this video interview (around the 3:00 minute mark), host Kelly Ford describes the meteoric rise of Hunt\u2019s early career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:58:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}