Country music chart-topper and bona fide superstar Sam Hunt took time off from travelling North America on his Outskirts Tour to chat with ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante about his life as a new dad, touring with his family and what his daughter thinks of his country tunes. “I think they’re enjoying it so far,” said Hunt, who welcomed his first-born daughter Lucy Louise last year with his wife, Hannah Lee Fowler. “I definitely threw them in the deep end with a two-week right off the bat.” On the difficulties of long travels while touring, Hunt opened up about managing days with multiple flights, explaining that when he was in Calgary, his wife and daughter stayed in New York instead of joining him because he had to undergo two five-hour flights in 48 hours. READ MORE: Luke Bryan, Kane Brown & Sam Hunt To Headline 2023 iHeartCountry Festival “I mean, we’re just walking on air right now because we’ve got another baby on the way, and, you know, the tour is going great.
Just a lot of things in life are all lining up right now,” he continued, referencing the announcement of his wife’s second pregnancy in April.
On new parenthood, while maintaining one of country music’s most successful music careers, Hunt explained that he’d grown a lot. “So, you know, there are there were years there where, you know, maybe I didn’t realize how much growing up I had needed to do.
And having a child forces you to do that. It shifts something in your nervous system,” the star elaborated. Hunt emphasized that “more purpose and meaning are attached to the things you are doing.” Although the country superstar, who began writing for fellow industry heavyweights Keith Urban and Reba McEntire, boasts a huge fanbase, his daughter is sometimes not
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