Sam Hunt said it’ll be “all hands on deck” when Baby No. 3 arrives.

Hunt caught up with iHeartCountry before taking the stage at the 2025 iHeartCountry Festival presented by Capital One. The show, now in its 12th year, returned Saturday night (May 3) to Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Hunt revealed to iHeartRadio’s Wayne D ahead of the 58th Country Music Association Awards in November that his wife, Hannah Lee Fowler, is pregnant with the couple’s third child. Baby No. 3 will join big sister Lucy Louise, who was born in May 2022, and brother Lowry Lee, who arrived in October 2023.

“Well, I have a feeling I’m gonna have to start pulling my weight with these babies,” Hunt told iHeartCountry at the festival on Saturday. “My wife, Hannah, has been doing more than her share so far. I’ve tried to pitch in where I can, but I have a feeling with No. 3, it’s gonna be an 'all hands on deck' situation.”

Hunt added that he’s “hunkering down,” and “preparing to really flip into ‘dad mode’ here in about three weeks.”

The “Outskirts” hitmaker previously shared via his record label that “what I have enjoyed most about fatherhood is the sense of purpose. It’s deep, and it’s something I couldn’t have imagined until I experienced it. It gives such meaning to all, all that I’m doing in life, all the little mundane things that I might have done by myself before having kids, now have all this weight and meaning when I do them with my children.”

Hunt was one of several artists to take the stage during the star-studded iHeartCountry Festival. Others who joined the lineup include Brooks & Dunn, Thomas Rhett, Rascal Flatts, Cole Swindell, Nate Smith, Megan Moroney, Bailey Zimmerman, and special guest Dasha, who performed her viral TikTok anthem, “Austin,” in the Texas city of the same name. Festival goers also caught performances on the free Daytime Village stage before the man show, including Smith, Moroney, Matt Stell, Tucker Wetmore and Dasha in the lineup. iHeartCountry Festival viewers and listeners tuned into the show via Hulu, the Official Streaming Destination, and across 122 iHeartCountry stations nationwide and the free iHeartRadio app. It was all hosted by iHeartRadio’s Bobby Bones.

Hunt is also one of several artists welcoming a baby into the family in 2025. Others include Lauren Alaina, Jordan Davis, Lady A’s Hillary Scott, Lady A’s Charles Kelley and more. See the list of pregnancy announcements here.

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