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Music Review
Band: JUSTIN MOORE
Album: “Small Town USA” single
Label: Valory Music Co.
Country music has expanded its southern roots and has now attracted a nationwide appeal through feel good songs about love, life, etc… However, there are those songs that bring you back to where an artists roots are and what they know based on where they come from. Songs like Kenny Chesney’s “Back Where I Come,” The Lost Trailers “Country Folks Living Loud,” or Billy Currington’s “That’s How Country Boys Roll,” come to mind. Justin Moore’s new single, “Small Town USA” is one of those songs that will take you on the road to the narrator’s hometown and way of life that they know and understand. Moore opens the song talking about what he loves about his hometown where everybody knows everybody which leads into the chorus that talks about Saturday nights, hanging out with your girl, an old dirt road, church on Sunday morning, etc… He goes into the second verse of the song talking about the hard working, blue collar men, and rounds out the song talking about the pride he feels from being one of the town’s own. With an obvious influence from Chesney’s tune mentioned above, especially in the music, Justin Moore is bringing his hometown to life. The problem a song like this could face when going nationally is that not everybody is going to relate to a lyric like this if they don’t come from a small town, however I don’t think that is really the point of this song. Moore rather paints the perfect picture of a more slowed down lifestyle that allows the opportunity and time to spend with the people and things you love and everyone can relate to that even though he masks that point around a small, dirt road, kind of town.
