Hunter Chastain
by Kelsey Wilhoite
Hunter Chastain’s debut single, “Blame
My Last Name” dropped Oct. 20 and
is available on all major platforms.
The country singer and college junior
says he wanted this song to be “hard-
hitting” because the lyrics reveal a
piece of himself.
Chastain played football for Faulkner
University in Montgomery before
transferring to Jacksonville State
University. The Physical Education major
is determined to finish his degree, but he
says music is his main passion. He hopes to
pursue music full-time.
“I’m currently still a student at Jacksonville
State, and I have a job. Then I do music on
top of that. So I live a busy, busy life.”
Chastain is already working on new
material, “I just write about stuff that’s
happened to me and the feelings I’ve had.”
He hopes to share a second single with
his growing fanbase in the next couple of
months.
I had a chance to catch up with Chastain
after his first single released.
Tell me about your new single,
“Blame My Last Name”.
That song actually is actually more of a
Southern rock type deal. That song man,
it’s kinda like a statement song of my life, if
you were to hear my story. It’s one of those
INSIGHT
songs that I wanted to be hard-hitting. But
I’m super excited about that. I’ve had a lot
of good feedback about it.
What background would you be willing
to share with us about the writing of
that song?
The last name Chastain, in my hometown
of Rome, is not very hot. I was brought up
by my mom’s side of the family, and I was
raised right, but there’s always the times
that you get older and older that you kinda
get away from your roots. So that song just
talks about all the dumb stuff I’ve done and
how you can kind of blame my last name
for it. It’s a killer song to me, man, It means
a lot to me.
It sounds like that song was a long
time coming. How long have you been
working on it?
That song took me probably a good solid
month to write. Once I started writing that
song it took me a month, month and a
half, to write it and then went through the
recording process and that took another
month and then it finally came out.
Tell me about your history behind
the guitar.
I took guitar lessons when I was probably
four or five years old, and I wound up
stopping until my junior year of high
school. We had a track meet and we were
inside the field house waiting for our event
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