Album releases become available for download Fridays at midnight East Coast Time. Since that's 9pm Thursday night West Coast Time, every Thursday night, Pepper picks her favorite songs from the new country albums and plays them on K-Frog for New at Nine! Here are her picks for this week.
It's been over five years since Sam Hunt dropped his first album Montevallo, and it seems he suffered a bit of writers' block in preparing for his second album, and then had a surge of inspiration. "The majority of the songs on this record I wrote within the last year. There are a few songs on the record that were written prior to 12 months ago that I felt like belonged on this record, they sort of fit the storyline, so I included a few of those songs.
"These were the 12 songs of the songs that I've written since putting out Montavello that seemed to capture the last four years – more specifically the last 12-18 months – but capture the last four years more so than the others I wrote that didn't make the record."
Here are the songs I played from Southside at Nine tonight:
1. Body Like a Back Road
2. Kinfolks
3. Hard to Forget
