Sam Hunt

Multi-Platinum-selling, award-winning hitmaker Sam Hunt debuted to critical acclaim and was one of the top country artists of 2020 landing at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. His album “SOUTHSIDE” was named one of the Best Albums of the Year by The New York Times and US Weekly, the project features 12 songs written by Hunt including his No. 1 hits “Kinfolks,” “Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s,” and one of NPR’s Best Songs of 2020 “Hard To Forget”.

Early on Hunt was a catalyst in a generational shift in country music, both in music and business. He slips modern R&B rhythms into his brand of country-pop, signaling a progression from the boisterous bro-country that had previously defined the 2010s. “Leave the Light On” introduced this blend in 2014, and it became a smash, the first of his many number one singles on the country chart. This success paled in comparison to 2017’s “Body Like a Back Road,” which spent months at number one and broke the record for the number of weeks in the top spot.

Released independently, not as part of an album, “Body Like a Back Road” showed that Hunt’s rise was fueled by a mastery of the digital marketplace. “Body Like a Back Road” would eventually anchor his sophomore long-player, 2020’s “Southside,” a record that added to his string of number one Country Airplay hits. That streak was extended in 2021 with “23,” the first single from his third album; “Water Under the Bridge” provided another taste of this project in late 2022, with “Outskirts” appearing in 2023, and coming for us early 2024 is his newest EP “Locked Up” which he’ll no doubt share when he hits the stage in Bend.