[1] An authority on Indian classical music, Hunt has helped compile albums by Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle.
He has written liner notes for albums by many other artists, including Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Yehudi Menuhin, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham and the Kronos Quartet.
He wrote for several underground music publications that furthered the alternative style introduced by ZigZag magazine, including Dark Star and Omaha Rainbow.
[4] During that time he interviewed and profiled Paul Brady, Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Jerry Garcia, Alan Garner, Mickey Hart, Dagmar Krause, David Lindley, Christy Moore, Ralph Steadman[2] and Robin Williamson, among others.
[2] Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Indian and Pakistani independence in 1997, Hunt organised a representative musical programme for the Tanz&FolkFest Rudolstadt festival in Germany.
[1][8] As of 2015, he continued to write for international music and other publications such as fRoots, Folker, Jazzwise, Penguin Eggs, the UK-based Indian arts magazine Pulse, Sing Out!, R2 and Times Literary Supplement, in addition to several UK newspapers.