{"id":9811,"date":"2020-06-08T05:34:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2020\/06\/sam-hunt-inspired-by-song-from-the-1950s\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T05:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T09:34:21","slug":"sam-hunt-inspired-by-song-from-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/sam-hunt-inspired-by-song-from-the-1950s\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt Inspired By Song From The 1950&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wxhv_HsEIl4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sam Hunt&#8217;s latest hit, &#8220;Hard To Forget,&#8221; was written around a sample of a Webb Pierce song that his co-writer, Luke Laird, brought to him.<\/p>\n<p>They were in a writing session working on something else when Luke mentioned this sample and offered to play it for Sam.<\/p>\n<p>They stopped everything and listened, and Sam said they immediately set out to write the song that would showcase this bit of music.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He pulled it up and he played it and I was just instantly inspired by it and instantly knew that we had to write a song to that track and he essentially has sampled the Webb Pierce song. I&#8217;d been looking for the perfect sample and that was it. As soon as I heard it I knew it was the one, but I can&#8217;t take credit for it. That was Luke&#8217;s idea.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hard To Forget&#8221; is the fourth single from his new Southside album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Hunt&#8217;s latest hit, &#8220;Hard To Forget,&#8221; was written around a sample of a Webb Pierce song that his co-writer, Luke Laird, brought to him.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":9812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3975,4276,3572,4277],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-hard-to-forget","tag-luke-laird","tag-sam-hunt","tag-webb-pierce"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 16:30:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/06\/sam-hunt-inspired-by-song-from-the-1950s\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}