Sam Hunt was rested and refreshed for a bit, but now he's back on the road and managing a newborn at home, his 3rd child under 3, and it's led to the best kind of chaos for the "Country House" singer.
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"I've been good. Been enjoying a little time off. We're back on the road now, so I would say I feel refreshed, but that was about 6 weeks ago and, I had a new baby get here," Sam shares with Katie Neal. "So the past 6 weeks, I haven't gotten a whole lot of sleep, but I'm still on cloud 9."
Weyman Allen Hunt is Hunt and wife Hannah's third child in 3 years, but everyone seems to be figuring it out. "They seem to be adjusting," says Sam, but then again so is Sam. "They're getting old enough now to, you know, they'll just kind of go off and do their own thing, and still they understand how they need to be gentle and not so rambunctious around the baby. They're learning that, but they're getting better at it. We're all getting along well."
"New baby needing so much time with Hannah, I have to be the distraction for the other two kids," the GRAMMY-nominated star admits. "So I'm pretty good with them, but it's been rare up to this point that I've had them really like, just me without Hannah close by. So all the little things like, 'Where are your shirts?' or 'Where are your shoes?' You know, all these little things that Hannah's always doing, like getting them dressed and that sort of thing. I needed to know these things, but I have learned how to manage on my own."
It hopefully helps to have a song climbing up the charts while you have 3 children climbing up the walls, and that's also the case for Sam Hunt with "Country House."
"This is one that, when I started writing it, I thought about my little cabin in the woods where I have lived for several years now," Sam reveals. "We're about to outgrow it."
"More of the lifestyle of just being married with kids, and out in the woods and, raising the kids and just content. So that was sort of the inspiration behind the song. It started with the title just 'Country House' and a lot of songs start with just a phrase that I hear it, or I see it written down, and it just jumps out at me like it sort of screams 'this is supposed to be a song that's a part of your catalog.' So let's go."
"Once I zero in on an idea like that, I'll take the time to try to get the song right. And that's kind of how this song came about."
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