Justin Moore
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78 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Justin Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The county fairs I enjoy too. You know, some of those are so much fun because for me growing up, if you had somebody come in with let's say two hits, they're just popping on the radio or on the scene, maybe three hits, whatever. I mean, you think you're watching Elvis Presley.
Happy to be here, man. We appreciate the opportunity.
We are too.
I grew up in a really, really small town of about 300 people in Arkansas. You know, blue collar folks, God-fearing, all the cliche small town stuff you can come up with. You know, it was kind of like the set of Varsity Blues during whatever sport was in season at the time. Everything shuts down, everybody goes to whatever game it is. But a great way to grow up, a great place to grow up.
Family was super important to most everyone. Everybody in high school was going, we can't wait to get the heck out of Dodge. And then we didn't leave, or they didn't leave, or they're back, for the most part. It's one of those kind of towns. But it was great, man. And I was way into sports growing up. I played baseball and basketball.
When I graduated high school, I started thinking about maybe going to school and playing baseball. That was my favorite. Anybody out there watching that knows anything about me knows I'm a bit vertically challenged. So basketball, I could hold my own in my weight class. I wasn't gonna go to college and do that. And so I thought about attempting to go play baseball.
And about that time I started playing music. My uncle had a Southern rock band and I would jump up and play with them anytime I could. And I always sang in church because my parents made me. But yeah, when I graduated high school, I went to college for literally two weeks and came home and told my parents, I don't think I'm going back to school. And they go, why are you sick? I go, no, like ever.
And they knew that I wanted to pursue music at some point. And so a few months after high school, moved to Nashville, I was 18. And just lucky that my parents were supportive. My wife and I have four kids. And if they came in and told me that at 18, I'd be like,
hell no are you crazy so i i don't know why my parents were the way that they were but i'm thankful that that they were your guitar player did you write on guitar is that is that your instrument yeah so when i moved to town i moved there in 02 and it was still you know you're using a little recorder yeah and it's all work tapes and you're booking your
I was lucky when I had been there maybe a year to get a publishing deal. I got paid $12,000 a year though, so it's one of those kind of deals. But it allowed me to meet a lot of people, and it allowed me to really learn how to write a song, because I didn't have a clue what I was doing.
And I'm in the room with guys that I really didn't deserve to be in a room with, you know, but fortunately I could sing. So I think they thought there may be something here down the road. So it was still what I consider old school. You know, then it was it was there was no writing and building a track at the same time. And then you got the track done when you get finished writing the song.
And none of that existed. It was like today. No, it wasn't like that. I enjoy doing that, but I still write on guitar.
I 100% agree.
i noticed that you write a lot of your own material which is pretty cool because you know to our listeners there's a lot of artists that may or may not participate in the song right i almost think it's more difficult to pick songs that you had nothing to do with you know being in the room writing them there's a knack to that and the fact that you know those guys have done it for for that long
and pick so many great songs. I have cut outside songs, but I write the majority of what I do. And I think it's kind of easier to weed through your own. But I've never been an artist that goes, I've got to write everything. You know, best song wins to me. The fans, in my opinion, deserve to get the best music, regardless whose name is on it.
We've been really lucky.
My first hit was Small Town USA.
That's probably when it peaked. We put it out, I think, in 08. Yeah, we had put a single out before that called Back That Thing Up. It went straight to 38 and straight down. And I thought...
oh boy and you know at the time because i signed my deal in 07 uh at the time talking about how the the industry and songwriting is different the whole entire industry is different as you well know if you had a couple two or three singles that missed yeah You got dropped. Nowadays, the labels stick with you for years and albums, and it's just changed in that regard.
So when the label wanted to put out Small Town USA after our first single that flopped, I thought, I dig this song because I wrote it about kind of being homesick. Right.
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