Montevallo is the debut studio album by American country music singer Sam Hunt.

[7] "Cop Car" was previously recorded by Keith Urban on his eighth studio album Fuse, who released it as a single in January 2014.

[8] It won the 2016 American Country Countdown Awards for Digital Album of the Year.

[9] The album's name is a nod to the town of Montevallo, Alabama, the hometown of Hunt's wife, Hannah Lee Fowler.

The song became Hunt's most successful single up to that time, crossing over to pop and adult contemporary formats, peaking at number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100, as well as topping both Hot Country Songs chart and Country Airplay chart.

[16] Elias Leight from Billboard provided a favorable review, describing "eighty percent of this album could compete easily in the top 40", and stated the album "comes from a guy with a hit on the country charts, but has little to identify it as country."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album 3.5 out of 5, saying that "Hunt is unabashedly a modern guy and his taste for busy electronic arrangements and facility with fleet-footed rhythms distinguish him from the pack of modern country bros...What grounds the album is his clean, commercial songwriting, heavy on hooks but also sturdily constructed.

Ultimately, Hunt's ability to fuse his classical construction with modern flair and pass it off as no big thing is what makes his debut something more than just another album from the bro next door.

"[13] Writing for Vice, Robert Christgau cited "Take Your Time" and "Cop Car" as highlights and summarized the album with the following: "Popmeister from a small town hooks women for a living, defies cops for show".