Sam Hunt‘s latest smash, “Outskirts,” is making its way to the top of the country charts, and it’s just recently vaulted up the charts in the last two months after he released it last July. Sam says he can’t explain why, but he sure is grateful.

“I wrote that song on the same writing retreat – which is a two-three day getaway north of Nashville with co-writers – I wrote ‘Kinfolks’ on that same trip. So, it’s been a while since that song was written, and I sat on it for a long time and finally finished it up last year and put it out, and it has been a slow burn,” he says. “We played it live all last summer, and it felt like it got a good reception at the live show, but it really caught steam, I’d say, in the last month and a half or so, for whatever reason, and has been rolling ever since, and now it’s sitting right up at the top of the charts, which I’m grateful for. And I can’t explain why it caught steam in the last six or eight weeks, but I’m glad that it has.”

Written by Sam with Zach Crowell, Josh Osborne and Jerry Flowers, the Georgia-native pines over a could-have-been life with a could-have-been wife as the loneliness is amplified by sorrowful guitar.

Sam just wrapped up the latest leg of his Outskirts trek, and he’s set to launch his summer amphitheater Locked Up Tour kicking off June 28th in Bend, Oregon. The 20-city Locked Up Tour continues through September with dates across the U.S. and Canada, and features support artists Russell Dickerson, George Birge (U.S.), and Dalton Dover (Canada).