Sam Hunt‘s freshman Montevallo album wasn’t a debut project that was thrown together just to get his music to the masses; the 30-year-old decided early on that he didn’t want to fit into a cookie-cutter mold, but rather wanted to create a sound that was unique to him. And while it may seem like a daunting task to go against the grain of what most successful country artists are doing, Hunt found inspiration in another rising star: Kacey Musgraves.