Sam Hunt is addressing his 2019 DUI arrest and its ramifications for his marriage in a brutally sincere new track, “The Night time I Received Locked Up.”
Hunt took the stage at Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium on Tuesday (March 14) to share the brand new track in an acoustic efficiency as a part of the annual Nation Radio Seminar, a three-day gathering in Nashville that brings collectively artists, journalists, radio programmers and different nation music insiders for a collection of panels, interviews and showcase performances that units the agenda for the remainder of the 12 months in nation music.
The track addresses Hunt’s arrest and his fears that his spouse, Hannah Lee Fowler, would go away him in an unvarnished lyric:
“The evening I received locked up / Every thing went mistaken / The evening I received tousled / I ought to’ve simply stayed dwelling / Picked up my telephone / What can I say / Effectively, I believed that you just’d stroll away / However you stood by your man / Like Tammy Wynette / Did the whole lot / You might’ve simply stop / No, however you confirmed me love / Stored going when the going received powerful / The evening I received locked up,” Hunt sings within the searing refrain.
The track is a part of a venture Hunt has been engaged on. No launch date is about. He beforehand carried out the track at a Stars for Second Harvest profit present and shared a clip to Instagram:
Nashville police arrested the nation celebrity within the early morning hours of Nov. 21, 2019, after responding to a report {that a} car was driving the mistaken means down a road in East Nashville. Nashville’s WKRN-TV reported that an officer on the scene stated Hunt smelled of alcohol, had bloodshot eyes and tried to offer his bank card when requested for a driver’s license. Hunt’s blood alcohol degree was .173. The authorized restrict in Tennessee is .08.
Hunt pleaded guilty in August of 2021 and obtained a sentence of 11 months and 29 days. All of that point was suspended besides 48 hours, which he agreed to serve within the DUI Schooling Facilities.
Hunt and his spouse welcomed their first child — a child lady named Lucy Louise — in June of 2022. The excellent news got here after a turbulent interval during which Fowler filed for divorce in February of 2022, charging Hunt with inappropriate marital conduct and adultery. She called off the divorce in Might of 2022.
