In a recent Father’s Day post, Sam Hunt shared a home-video style clip with some unreleased audio and a cryptic caption that reads a lot like new lyrics. It’s got us asking, what does new Sam Hunt music sound like in 2026?

Hunt was one of the pioneers of Bro-Country back in the mid 2010s, with his albums, Montevallo and Southside firmly establishing his sound: hip-hop beats, spoken word verses and big energy hits, all laced with his Georgia drawl and country boy spirit.

Since 2020's Southside, though, Hunt has all but disappeared off the face of the country music landscape. His singles have dropped sporadically and his 2024 EP ‘Locked Up’ felt like a farewell to his bachelor-sounding songs. Whilst his previous music was fun and high on energy, it lacked the vulnerability that country music is built on, and ‘Locked Up’ seemingly confirmed he'd now be leaning into the latter.

So what’s next for the ‘House Party’ hitmaker? What does an artist, whose success came at the height of the Bro-Country movement, release when they’re no longer a ‘bro’?

We suspect it’s an album about fatherhood. And here are all the easter eggs we’ve spied.

First, his latest post. A 90s style home-video clip appeared on his socials on Father’s Day with the caption, ‘Blackberries growing on the property line, staining little hands that look like mine.” If those aren’t song lyrics, we’ll eat our hats. It was also accompanied with an acoustic, mellow ‘original audio’, which complements the style of those words and is, quite frankly, a million miles from his bro-country days.

But it doesn’t end there. Heading back through his social posts, we can see that Hunt loves a photo dump - usually of him brooding in his flat cap on some form of green landscape, gun in hand. But more recently, these photo dumps have had suspiciously lyric-like captions.

It started last September, with a picture of him and his daughter, captioned, ‘Oh little lady, we’re made of the same stuff’. He followed this with more family orientated pictures with captions such as, ‘You can’t outrun a grizzly bear’, ‘Laughing children and pointing dogs’ and ‘Tarpon & Toddlers’.

So, can we expect a Fathers & Sons style album from Sam Hunt next? We’d say so. Even if it’s not as pointed as Luke Combs’ ode to his children, it’s clear that Hunt’s head is firmly in his family life and his next body of work is likely to deeply reflect this. The main question now - to which the answer remains as elusive as ever - is when.