Sam Hunt, a former football player turned award-winning musician, will play back-to-back shows at the Alaska Airlines Center, but also plans to fish for salmon.
Country music star Sam Hunt plays at the Alaska Airlines Center on Friday, July 14 and Saturday, July 15, 2022.
“I may get up in the morning and try and try again on Saturday,” Hunt said in an interview Thursday.“We got word that there might be an opportunity to come up and play, and I’ve wanted to visit Alaska for a long time,” Hunt said. “We have a pretty outdoorsy crew and band, so when the opportunity came up, I was like, ‘We will absolutely take advantage of that.’ ”He said he had not seen most of the country before embarking on his musical career.
Hunt grew up in the small town of Cedartown, Georgia, where he played football, basketball and baseball. Even though he enjoyed music, he never imagined himself as a musician. “I bought a little pawn shop guitar and started to learn some songs,” Hunt said. “That sort of transitioned into writing songs, and I started to entertain the idea of, maybe I could move to Nashville and find a way to put it to use somewhere.”
“I took off to Nashville after those NFL doors closed and never really looked back,” Hunt said. “It wasn’t really a dream of mine to play in the NFL. It was just a potential opportunity after college.” It paid off, and he had some of his work recorded by many of the country music stars he grew up listening to.
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