Sam Hunt is an amazing country artist but we almost never heard of him because of his lifelong dream as a kid to be a professional bull-rider.

It seems Sam originally had plans to be a bull-rider, back when he was about nine years old growing up in Georgia.

“I remember being really excited when I got into riding horses, and one Christmas I got a Mustang that I named Comanche, and that was a really exciting time. I rode all the time after that. I was able to ride whenever I wanted to,” Hunt said in a recent radio interview. “I remember one year, it probably started from the horse-riding thing, but I got into wanting to be a bull rider.

“I was still pretty young, so one Christmas we got a little steer calf. It had a little rope, and I’d try to ride the calf.”

But eventually, Hunt recalled, that little calf grew up. And that was pretty much the end of that.”

Source: CMT