Sam Hunt samples a classic Webb Pierce song in his new single “Hard To Forget.”

Country Music Hall of Fame member Webb Pierce was one of the most prolific artists in country music during the 1950s. Webb scored 21 number one singles on the US Country singles chart from 1951 through 1957.

That amazing list of chart topping singles included the song “There Stands The Glass.” The song spent 27 weeks on the chart including 12 weeks at #1. That is the song Sam sampled for his latest single.

“I’ve wanted to sample an older country song from an older era for a while,” Sam shares, “and I’ve tried a few times to make it work, and the songs just haven’t panned out or I haven’t had an idea to write with the samples that we’ve used. I tried some samples from the ’90s ’cause that’s kind of the era of country music that I grew up on, but it never seemed to quite work. For some reason when I heard this Webb Pierce sample for the first time, it clicked, and I knew that was gonna be the song that was gonna be the one we sampled.”

You can check out the original song “There Stands The Glass” by Webb Pierce below.

Listen for “Hard To Forget” by Sam Hunt on Bloomington-Normal’s #1 Country, B104.

By: Buck Stevens