Sam Hunt Reflects On His Favorite Past Christmas Gifts
One of the gifts almost made Hunt follow an entirely different career path.
As much as we say Christmas isn’t about the presents, sometimes special gifts can mean everything to a young child. Gifts from the heart can shape how that child grows up and what they do with their time. For Sam Hunt, there are two gifts that stand out as most memorable from his childhood.
“I remember being really excited when, I got into riding horses, and one Christmas I got a Mustang that I named Comanche – a horse – and that was a really exciting time,” he explained. “I rode all the time after that. Before, I had some friends, a babysitter whose kids had horses, so I’d be able to ride occasionally, but now I was able to ride whenever I wanted to.”
Hunt quickly delved into life raising livestock and eventually had another career (outside of football and music) in mind… bull riding!
“I remember one year, it probably started from the horse-riding thing, but I got into wanting to be a bullrider,” said Hunt. “I was still pretty young – 8, 9, 10 years old – so one Christmas, we got a little steer calf. It had a little rope, and I’d try to ride a calf, you know? He sort of grew up with us and grew into a bull and ended up getting after my grandmother one afternoon. We had to get rid of him. He was just playing, but she wasn’t really the playful type, yeah. Those are probably the two most exciting.”
While Hunt may not have lived out his dreams of becoming the next rodeo superstar, he is rapidly making his icon status set in stone within the country music world. Hopefully, the singer will continue his upward trajectory into the 2017 when he releases new music to follow up his GRAMMY-nominated album Montevallo.
