{"id":58570,"date":"2016-07-07T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=58570"},"modified":"2016-07-07T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:00:07","slug":"luanne-hunt-wins-third-american-songwriting-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/07\/luanne-hunt-wins-third-american-songwriting-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Luanne Hunt wins Third American Songwriting Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LuanneHunt002\"Independent Superstars Hall of Fame inductee<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Luanne Hunt Wins\u00a0<\/strong>Third American Songwriting Award<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"LuanneHuntSongWriting\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over 20 years of working hard at her craft has been paying off big time lately for country singer Luanne Hunt, <\/strong><\/h4>\n

who was recently inducted into the Independent Superstars Recording Artists Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/h4>\n
.<\/h6>\n

\"LuanneHuntHeader002\"Last month, Hunt received her third American Songwriting Award for her holiday offering, \u201cThe Greatest Christmas Gift.\u201d\u00a0 She co-wrote the tune with her husband Steve, who also won American Songwriting Awards for two songs Luanne has recorded, including her AirplayExpress No. 1 hit, \u201cTexas Tears.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve also earned an American Songwriting Award for his poignant tune, \u201cNot A Day Goes By,\u201d which is featured on Hunt\u2019s CD \u201cSongs from the Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"HOFLuanneHunt002\"\u201cThis has been an incredible year for our music,\u201d said Hunt, who also earned American Songwriting Awards for her holiday singles \u201cThe Hosts of Christmas Past\u201d and \u201cIf Christmas Were Mine.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s been a long journey with lots of ups and downs, so having our songs recognized with these prestigious awards feels really wonderful.<\/p>\n

Hunt is perhaps best known for her chart-topping single, \u201cChristmas Without You,\u201d which was recently named by Sweden\u2019s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, one of the top 25 Christmas songs of all-time.\u00a0\u201cChristmas Without You\u201d also landed on two “Best of 2015 Female Country Holiday Songs”\u00a0lists in the major online U.S. publications, Autostraddle and Truckers News.<\/p>\n

\"LuanneHuntCDpromo002\"\u201cBeing on these lists with so many A-listers felt like a real accomplishment,\u201d said Hunt, whose studio musicians have backed everyone from the Righteous Brothers to Kenny Loggins. \u201cIt\u2019s a huge challenge to find success in the \u2018big leagues\u2019 as an Indie artist, so these honors were quite a validation for all the work I\u2019ve put into my craft.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"10645104_786344948089660_1711982970485994752_n\"Over the years, Hunt\u2019s songs have been played on AM, FM, satellite and Internet stations around the world, including Pandora radio.<\/p>\n

Her \u201cSongs from the Valley\u201d project was recently named \u201cClassic Country CD of the Year 2016\u201d by the Rural Roots Music Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne listen to\u00a0Luanne Hunt\u00a0and you will not be able to take Carrie Underwood or Taylor Swift seriously anymore,\u201d said Buddy Nelson of Jamsphere Magazine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s exactly what country radio needs to not only continuously appeal to their current audience, but to break the stereotypes and appeal to new audiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

– WHISNews21 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Independent Superstars Hall of Fame inductee Luanne Hunt Wins\u00a0Third American Songwriting Award Over 20 years of working hard at her craft has been paying off big time lately for country singer Luanne Hunt, who was recently inducted into the Independent Superstars Recording Artists Hall of Fame . Last month, Hunt received her third American Songwriting Award for her holiday offering, \u201cThe Greatest Christmas Gift.\u201d\u00a0 She co-wrote the tune with her husband Steve, who also won American Songwriting Awards for two songs Luanne has recorded, including her AirplayExpress No. 1 hit,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}