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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 14:47:06 GMT -5
Sam Hunt Leave The Night On MCA Nashville At Radio: 5/27/2014 Add date: 06/16/2014 Officially sent to PlayMPe this afternoon. Sam Hunt feels destined to be the next big star in Country music. You may think he's just another "Bro" even with a song like this, but listen to his songwriting. It's a mark aboove. Among the hits? "Cop Car," "We Are Tonight" and "Come Over." Song was produced by Shane McAnally and Zach Crowell. Many will know him from the SiriusXM hit "Raised On It," released before he signed with MCA. Note: The artwork was changed for the retail version so that's reflective here. Strange to have different art for radio and retail but that's what they're doing here. The Acustic Mixtape version of "Leave The Night On."
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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2014 14:58:35 GMT -5
^ Darn you Matt, you beat me to it. ;) I literally was just going to start this thread. No surprise that this will be the official debut single for him. I actually think Sam is a super talented songwriter. Still am a bit unsure for his style as an artist, but his songwriting skill is fantastic.
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Post by Dustin J. on May 27, 2014 15:02:15 GMT -5
I have the acoustic version of this...interested in hearing the studio version.
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 15:20:21 GMT -5
I have the acoustic version of this...interested in hearing the studio version. The banjo used in the acoustic one is 'gone' from the mix or at least less audible, though when he performs it live, you can definitely hear it as he or one of his band guitarists performs it. (He doesn't use a bassist and instead has programmed beats (some which he starts on his dj gizmo) instead). I didn't think that'd work at first but when you see him perform live, it's obvious this guy has something going on. He's different than other artists but definitely country by today's standards. Sure, his image (especially here) seems to be more Pop but I don't see that as any sort of problem, honestly. If it is, people need to remember we're no longer in the 90s or 80s where every male wanted/was told to look like George Strait.
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Post by carriekins on May 27, 2014 15:22:44 GMT -5
He is one I really wish just remained a good songwriter.
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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2014 15:25:06 GMT -5
I have the acoustic version of this...interested in hearing the studio version. The banjo used in the acoustic one is 'gone' from the mix or at least less audible, though when he performs it live, you can definitely hear it as he or one of his band guitarists performs it. (He doesn't use a bassist and instead has programmed beats (some which he starts on his dj gizmo) instead). I didn't think that'd work at first but when you see him perform live, it's obvious this guy has something going on. He's different than other artists but definitely country by today's standards. Sure, his image (especially here) seems to be more Pop but I don't see that as any sort of problem, honestly. If it is, people need to remember we're no longer in the 90s or 80s where every male wanted/was told to look like George Strait. I also don't see it as a problem but he definitely has many influences in his songs outside of country. Not a bad mix, but rather like he has found a new sound that nobody else is doing which is what I enjoy about him. Some of his material is still iffy for me but perhaps that's just me having nobody to compare him to. BTW: First single cover and he isn't wearing his signature ball cap.
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 15:28:47 GMT -5
The banjo used in the acoustic one is 'gone' from the mix or at least less audible, though when he performs it live, you can definitely hear it as he or one of his band guitarists performs it. (He doesn't use a bassist and instead has programmed beats (some which he starts on his dj gizmo) instead). I didn't think that'd work at first but when you see him perform live, it's obvious this guy has something going on. He's different than other artists but definitely country by today's standards. Sure, his image (especially here) seems to be more Pop but I don't see that as any sort of problem, honestly. If it is, people need to remember we're no longer in the 90s or 80s where every male wanted/was told to look like George Strait. I also don't see it as a problem but he definitely has many influences in his songs outside of country. Not a bad mix, but rather like he has found a new sound that nobody else is doing which is what I enjoy about him. Some of his material is still iffy for me but perhaps that's just me having nobody to compare him to. BTW: First single cover and he isn't wearing his signature ball cap. Yes, which is WHY I like his music so much. Very similar to my story growing up as a fan of multiple genres. And it's only what he naturally does. When he first got to Nashville a few years ago, he tried to sign with labels and had a completely different look and sound that wasn't him. Once he became himself (and started working with Shane McAnally), it seems that Sam found his footing. Some of his other songs (like "Ex To See" feel crossover ready.
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Post by layne on May 27, 2014 15:41:20 GMT -5
Sort of surprised this is the single he decided to go with first. After listening to his mixtape, this song was one that I liked the least. Anxious to see how this does for him.
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 16:49:00 GMT -5
Sort of surprised this is the single he decided to go with first. After listening to his mixtape, this song was one that I liked the least. Anxious to see how this does for him. It's probably the most 'safe' of the songs on that mixtape besides "Raised On It."
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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2014 16:55:53 GMT -5
I have the acoustic version of this...interested in hearing the studio version. Here ya go. :) All Access
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Post by layne on May 27, 2014 16:57:07 GMT -5
Sort of surprised this is the single he decided to go with first. After listening to his mixtape, this song was one that I liked the least. Anxious to see how this does for him. It's probably the most 'safe' of the songs on that mixtape besides "Raised On It." Really was hoping he'd go with something new and not on the mix tape. I've heard some of the work tapes of songs he's written with various writers that are new and just felt like one of those would be the lead single. I think this song will probably do well for him but he's definitely going to be polarizing with his style IMO.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 16:58:12 GMT -5
All I can hear when I see the title is David Cook wailing "try to leave a light on when I'm gone, something I rely on to get home" lol. I'll give this a chance but so far I'm not too enthusiastic about Sam's style and sound. I did like "Cop Car" but not nearly as much as everyone else here did (it doesn't come anywhere close to denting my list of favorite KU singles). The only Sam co-write that I absolutely love is "We Are Tonight" but I think it's just because that song has a cool groove and great guitar riffs...it's perfect for summer and I love Billy Currington, so naturally it's one of my favorite songs out there right now. I don't care for "Raised On It". As for this one, I'll wait for the studio version to come out and then give it a shot..ETA: Nevermind, sabre14 just posted it. I'll check it out.
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Post by layne on May 27, 2014 17:04:25 GMT -5
All I can hear when I see the title is David Cook wailing "try to leave a light on when I'm gone, something I rely on to get home" lol. I'll give this a chance but so far I'm not too enthusiastic about Sam's style and sound. I did like "Cop Car" but not nearly as much as everyone else here did (it doesn't come anywhere close to denting my list of favorite KU singles). The only Sam co-write that I absolutely love is "We Are Tonight" but I think it's just because that song has a cool groove and great guitar riffs...it's perfect for summer and I love Billy Currington, so naturally it's one of my favorite songs out there right now. I don't care for "Raised On It". As for this one, I'll wait for the studio version to come out and then give it a shot..ETA: Nevermind, sabre14 just posted it. I'll check it out. I didn't care for Cop Car at all. I also didn't care for Kenny Chesney's Come Over. Love Billy's We Are Tonight but imo that song sounds nothing like anything else Sam has co-written. I do like some of the stuff I've heard that will hopefully be on Sam's Album though so I hope this song will do well enough for him.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 17:14:45 GMT -5
Adds date for this is June 16. Source
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Post by wilbur on May 27, 2014 17:28:21 GMT -5
love this song! I cant get that allaccess link to work, do you have another?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 17:31:59 GMT -5
love this song! I cant get that allaccess link to work, do you have another? For AllAccess you need to login to listen to songs (or if you don't have an account, then create one...it's free). If you're logged in I don't know why I wouldn't work..? Anyway, I just listened to this. It's a pretty good pop song, but this is yet another classic case of genre mis-identification. I know, I know...country radio will probably jump all over this. But that's probably why we're looking at a fragmented genre in the not-so-distant future. What is it about this song that makes it country instead of pop? I certainly don't hear anything, lyrically or instrumentally. And it's unsettling that country stations will jump on this hip new sound quicker than they will for the latest Alan Jackson or Lee Ann Womack song. This to me sounds, at most, 5% country and 95% pop. I understand why he's being marketed to country radio...but there's not really anything country about this. In a perfect world, he'd be marketed to pop radio, allowing for more room on country radio for folks like Ashley Monroe, Kacey Musgraves, Greg Bates, Easton Corbin, David Nail, Sunny Sweeney, Josh Thompson, Charlie Worsham, Chris Stapleton, etc.
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 18:07:32 GMT -5
To me, the Acoustic version clearly helps it in the "country" lane. The problem is it wouldn't probably have played as well on radio, given the current trends. That being said, he is different and that is always to me.
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Post by sabre14 on May 27, 2014 18:18:31 GMT -5
I too like jhomes87 think Sam Hunt is mostly a pop artist with some country flare. This song along with most of his songs he's sings and writes including "Raised On It" sound too much like something on a AC station. That being said, I do like some of his songs and his unique sound, but I wish that country radio would allow more room for country artists and country sounding songs to have a place on their playlist so it would be easier to embrace this kind of music. I do understand the genre is changing as evidence by listening to more than 20 minutes of your local country station, but I hope this doesn't push the limits of country even further and separating from it's distinctive sound even more. Sam does have a lot of talent in terms of songwriting though. That is something I will always give him high marks for.
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 18:37:48 GMT -5
I too like jhomes87 think Sam Hunt is mostly a pop artist with some country flare. This song along with most of his songs he's sings and writes including "Raised On It" sound too much like something on a AC station. That being said, I do like some of his songs and his unique sound, but I wish that country radio would allow more room for country artists and country sounding songs to have a place on their playlist so it would be easier to embrace this kind of music. I do understand the genre is changing as evidence by listening to more than 20 minutes of your local country station, but I hope this doesn't push the limits of country even further and separating from it's distinctive sound even more. Sam does have a lot of talent in terms of songwriting though. That is something I will always give him high marks for. Well, I agree about the limited playlists, this at least smoother to my ears than the more altrock leaning fare
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Post by layne on May 27, 2014 18:42:22 GMT -5
love this song! I cant get that allaccess link to work, do you have another? For AllAccess you need to login to listen to songs (or if you don't have an account, then create one...it's free). If you're logged in I don't know why I wouldn't work..? Anyway, I just listened to this. It's a pretty good pop song, but this is yet another classic case of genre mis-identification. I know, I know...country radio will probably jump all over this. But that's probably why we're looking at a fragmented genre in the not-so-distant future. What is it about this song that makes it country instead of pop? I certainly don't hear anything, lyrically or instrumentally. And it's unsettling that country stations will jump on this hip new sound quicker than they will for the latest Alan Jackson or Lee Ann Womack song. This to me sounds, at most, 5% country and 95% pop. I understand why he's being marketed to country radio...but there's not really anything country about this. In a perfect world, he'd be marketed to pop radio, allowing for more room on country radio for folks like Ashley Monroe, Kacey Musgraves, Greg Bates, Easton Corbin, David Nail, Sunny Sweeney, Josh Thompson, Charlie Worsham, Chris Stapleton, etc. I don't disagree with you but this guy isn't the only one doing this. Eric Church is putting out more rock than country, the latest release by Carrie and Miranda certainly doesn't feel or sound country, etc etc etc. Now days just because something has a little banjo or a lyric that might belong in the country genre, that doesn't make it country. I think the top 40 is loaded with rock/pop/country instead of just country. I don't even think David Nail's latest song sounds country.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 19:03:57 GMT -5
I don't disagree with you but this guy isn't the only one doing this. Eric Church is putting out more rock than country, the latest release by Carrie and Miranda certainly doesn't feel or sound country, etc etc etc. Now days just because something has a little banjo or a lyric that might belong in the country genre, that doesn't make it country. I think the top 40 is loaded with rock/pop/country instead of just country. I don't even think David Nail's latest song sounds country. Well sure, a lot of acts incorporate other sounds. But Sam's song here sounds like a straight-up pop anthem to me. Eric and Miranda in particular also incorporate plenty of country instruments into their songs. My point is, if you're only 5% country but 95% pop, isn't that getting to be a bit too much? Eric and Miranda and others that you mentioned have released plenty of more traditional-sounding stuff, and there's some great country sounds on Miranda's new album as well as Eric's recent release. With Sam I don't hear any of that. His vocal style and delivery, the background vocals, all the pop production effects, the fast-delivered lyrics...there's nothing country here, to my ears. Just the feel of the song sounds like it should be on pop radio. My main issue is that, if we're going to continue to have genre-based radio formats and radio stations, I just wish they would stick to the music that's actually within that genre, that way I can turn to a country station and I hear country music when I want, I can turn to a AAA station and hear that genre, and I can turn to pop stations and hear pop music. If I heard this song for the first time today and didn't know it was from Sam Hunt and released by MCA Nashville, I would think it was a cover of an Ed Sheeran or OneRepublic song etc (because from listening I could obviously tell from the vocals that it wasn't those artists...it just sounds more in that vein). Or at least, it certainly sounds more 'in that ballpark' than in the ballpark that Kenny, Tim, Brad, and so many other big country stars play in. I just don't see the connection between Sam's music and the heritage/style of country music. The same goes for most of the "bro" country hip/hop stuff (which, thankfully, this song isn't). So I guess I either wish the genres would distinguish themselves from one another a bit more (at least, on a radio format level), or that we'd get rid of genre-based radio completely, since (to me) it doesn't make much sense to apply the country genre label to a song like this. I'm not saying that there isn't room for this type of music on country radio, and I agree that Sam has a very different sound to him than almost any other 'country' artist right now, but virtually every inch of every playlist is filled with all these new styles, and that's all that newer artists want to do. The traditional country stuff has been completely pushed off its home format and that just seems wrong. But of course, it's all about the money..
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 19:43:41 GMT -5
Well, then you're likely to think the same about most of his songs. Some likely will crossover (not this one though).
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 19:55:59 GMT -5
Well, then you're likely to think the same about most of his songs. Some likely will crossover (not this one though). I already do haha His EPK ( here) doesn't sound country at all, not one bit. I actually like "Leave The Night On" and a couple of his songs (not the rap/hip-hop stuff though). They're undeniably catchy. But, like Alan Jackson and Gary Allan have said recently, I'm just sad that country radio doesn't really sound "country" anymore. They jump on these new styles so quickly that the stations might as well re-brand as another alternate or companion format to CHR.
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Post by rsmatto on May 27, 2014 20:15:05 GMT -5
Well, then you're likely to think the same about most of his songs. Some likely will crossover (not this one though). I already do haha His EPK ( here) doesn't sound country at all, not one bit. I actually like "Leave The Night On" and a couple of his songs (not the rap/hip-hop stuff though). They're undeniably catchy. But, like Alan Jackson and Gary Allan have said recently, I'm just sad that country radio doesn't really sound "country" anymore. They jump on these new styles so quickly that the stations might as well re-brand as another alternate or companion format to CHR. Definitely a result of the pop/ac PD and MDs along with more folks like me, who grew up listening to everything. Still, I understand folks' frustration.
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Post by jferstler on May 27, 2014 21:23:22 GMT -5
I'm ok with this type of music being played on country radio as long as good solid country also gets played. However I don't like this song. It's just over produced and the lyrics just don't stand out to me. I did like Raised On It, that song still gets played around the campfire on the weekends.
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Post by 43dudleyvillas on May 27, 2014 22:00:47 GMT -5
The "fans/artists grew up listening to everything" trope is probably going to compete one day with the "critics of country's beer/truck/party overload are traditionalists resistant to evolution" line of thinking as my pick for the most specious defense of singles promoted to country radio that don't sound remotely country from artists marketed to country who don't sound remotely country. The "influenced by everything" argument falls apart when, as is the case on this song and too much of country radio today, "everything" drowns out anything that could be tied to the signature features of country music.
But I'll play, anyway. I grew up listening to a lot of different sounds, primarily country as long as my parents were deciding what we listened to. I actually left country when Garth started to revolutionize the genre, and spent much of the next decade listening to music categorized as alternative -- Arrested Development, Digable Planets, Cornershop, and Morcheeba among artists who landed somewhere at the intersection of hiphop, dance, and pop or rock, as well as Toad the Wet Sprocket, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, and others on the more mainstream side of things, and I've picked up an appreciation of neo-soul artists like Jill Scott, Anthony Hamilton, and Heather Headley along the way. The Dixie Chicks were probably the only country artists I still followed closely during that time, which meant that I was playing catchup on the likes of Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Pam Tillis, and even Brad Paisley when I returned to country around 2005.
Despite that, I don't understand what a guy like Sam Hunt, who sounds to me like a lesser Jason Mraz in terms of vocal tone and his adeptness with wordplay, is doing calling himself country. I get that Jason Mraz guested on a "country" single last year, but that seems like something less than a red carpet invitation for similar artists. Well, maybe I do understand -- if the ace marketers have their way, "country" may come to mean nothing but an occasional rural point of view, and accordingly, being a "country" artist will only take having grown up somewhere in the country, and will have nothing to do with the vocal and instrumental stylizations that have come to identify country music as country.
But it is precisely because I, like many other people who post here, listen to many genres of music that I see the root sounds and styles of country as distinctive and important (as are the root sounds & style of soul, the root sounds and styles of blues, the root sounds and styles of rock, and so on). It is precisely because I, like many other people who post here, listen to many genres of music that I find it illogical to recategorize something that in vocal, lyrical, instrumental, and melodic elements sounds entirely like something already done in pop (or another genre) as "country." My boundaries are pretty liberal in this regard (regarding the Eric Church and Miranda/Carrie examples, the vocals are generally enough for me to accept the work in the country market), but Sam Hunt, along with much of what is being marketed to country radio today, doesn't qualify as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by kml567 on May 27, 2014 23:20:53 GMT -5
WOW I love this song! Very catchy and sounds exactly what I would like to hear on the radio. When will it be released on iTunes?
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Post by rsmatto on May 28, 2014 9:34:37 GMT -5
It's probably the most 'safe' of the songs on that mixtape besides "Raised On It." Really was hoping he'd go with something new and not on the mix tape. I've heard some of the work tapes of songs he's written with various writers that are new and just felt like one of those would be the lead single. I think this song will probably do well for him but he's definitely going to be polarizing with his style IMO. He's already got legions of fans clamoring for his stuff to be played on the radio. At his show in Chattanooga a couple weeks ago (he opened for David Nail but had a full set), the crowd went nuts for this and other songs (often singing along). He played new stuff too.
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Post by wilbur on May 28, 2014 14:48:03 GMT -5
hey im in Chattanooga too! yea I really wanted to go to that david nail/sam hunt show but I had to work.
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Post by rsmatto on May 28, 2014 15:43:56 GMT -5
hey im in Chattanooga too! yea I really wanted to go to that david nail/sam hunt show but I had to work. I traveled from Nashville to Chattanooga for that show. I was technically working, too.
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