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Sunday, 4 October, 2009 11:09 AM
CMA New Artist Spotlight: 'Justin
Moore'
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Photo
by Kristin Barlowe
Valory
Music Co. recording artist Justin Moore |
If you can make your
past come alive through music, then you’ve got a gift that
will serve you well. In this department, Justin Moore is amply blessed.
Case in point: Though
written by Randy Houser and Jeremy Stover, Moore’s first single,
“Back That Thing Up,” conjures how life must have felt
back on the Arkansas farm where he was raised. Kids grew up there
hunting, fishing, milking the cows and working the land —
the kind of routine that feeds the good-natured, double-entendre
swagger in this tale of a country boy as he introduces a city lass
to the wonders of rural recreation.
In addition to driving
a Bush Hog and excelling at sports, Moore spent a lot of time singing,
whether in the church choir or onstage with his uncle’s Southern
rock band. His passion for music catapulted him right out of Poyen
High School, shortly after graduation, to Nashville. For several
years he divided his time between the two locales, writing for Keith
Stegall’s Big Picture Music, playing shows for friends and
family back home and eventually cutting his self-titled debut album
for The Valory Music Co., with Stover producing. And on these 10
tracks, nine of them bearing his credit as co-writer, including
his Top 25 second single, the wistful hometown hymn “Small
Town USA,” which he wrote with Stover and Brian Maher, Moore
makes his world feel like you’d grown up there too.
IN HIS OWN WORDS
Q&A
DREAM DUET PARTNER
“Ronnie Dunn.”
TITLE OF YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“How I Got This Way.”
LUCKY CHARM
“A necklace with a cross my wife gave me.”
GREATEST PERFORMANCE
TO DATE
“My debut on the Grand Ole Opry.”
SOMETHING WE’D
NEVER GUESS ABOUT YOU
“I’m a good cook.”
SONG YOU SING IN
THE SHOWER
“It’s the only time I don’t sing.”
MUSICAL HERO
“Dwight Yoakam.”
SONG YOU’D
SECRETLY LIKE TO COVER
“’Bad Company’ by Bad Company.”
CD IN YOUR STEREO
“Travis Tritt’s Greatest Hits.”
PET PEEVE
“Slow-driving people in the fast lane.”
SONG YOU WISH YOU’D
WRITTEN
“’Believe’ by Brooks & Dunn.”
PHRASE YOU FIND YOURSELF
SAYING OVER AND OVER
“’I’m sorry’ to my wife.”
MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE
YOU’D LIKE TO RELIVE
“Hunting with my late uncle.”
FIRST GIG
“Hot Springs, Ark. I don’t want to brag, but I got a
standing ovation. The audience was pretty much all my family though.”
On the Web:
www.MooreJustinMusic.com
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