Sam Hunt has been teasing his Instagram lately with mysterious and cryptic messages. For example, a photo of a neat and well-equipped tool shack, carrying the lines “I wanna introduce you to my Kinfolks, to my old friends.” Another post featured a basketball hoop that has seen better days, complete with a “No slam dunking” warning and street graffiti, with a message reading: “To the house in the pines where the road ends.”
Perplexed fans theorized this might be a buildup for good news from the pop-country singer-songwriter, and we’re happy to say they were, in fact, correct: Hunt has dropped a new song, titled “Kinfolks”, on Thursday (Oct 9). Those enigmatic messages from Instagram? The opening lines of the new song.
“When I think of ‘kinfolks,’ when I think of that phrase, I think of my family, but also I think of my people back home — beyond family,” Hunt said in a press release. “It’s my buddies who’ve been a part of my story from the beginning. I’ve made a lot of new friends and met a lot of new people who are important to me since I’ve moved away, but that core group is still my core group. It’s like that old saying, ‘you can’t make old friends.’”
You can hear the new song below:
