Sam Hunt will release the vinyl version of his latest album, SOUTHSIDE, on Friday (July 17th). The collection, which includes a free poster, features 12 songs including his multi-week No. 1 and six-times platinum “Body Like A Backroad,” the recent No. 1 smash “Kinfolks” and “Hard to Forget,”which is poised to hit the top of the country charts next week.

Sam says the title SOUTHSIDE seemed to fit the songs he collected for the record. “The album title came well after all the songs were finished. I essentially sat down and made a list of potential titles and just off the top of my head, I just sort of started writing down words or phrases that felt like the songs or felt like the record. SOUTHSIDE was the one that just kept standing out. I didn’t put a whole lot of thought into why that was the case. Southside just for me is a phrase that just feels like my rural and urban roots, you know, where I’m from, I kind of feel like I’m from the south side of that place, and obviously, the word south is in the title so there’s association with being from the South. More than having a really good backstory for the title, it just felt – when I looked at it on the page – it felt like the record.”

SOUTHSIDE VINYL TRACK LIST:

SIDE A

1-2016

2-Hard To Forget

3-Kinfolks

4-Young Once

5-Body Like A Back Road

6-That Ain’t Beautiful

SIDE B

1-Let It Down

2-Downtown’s Dead

3-Nothing Lasts Forever

4-Sinning With You

5-Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90’s

6-Drinkin’ Too Much