{"id":19742,"date":"2019-10-29T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813893"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:11:36","slug":"justin-moore-late-nights-longnecks-and-looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/justin-moore-late-nights-longnecks-and-looking-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Moore: Late Nights, Longnecks, and Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n26m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/justin-moore\">Justin Moore<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWhy We Drink,\u201d then you already know that he\u2019s always down for a good time. That spirit carries over into his newest album, <em>Late Nights and Longnecks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive albums in, I had the most fun recording this album that I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d Moore tells <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\">CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI believe it\u2019s my best album to date. I think that\u2019s pretty special to be able to say that and actually believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this exclusive interview, the Arkansas entertainer talks about his songwriting process, the inspiration he gets from his family, and the mission behind his latest No. 1 hit, \u201cThe Ones That Didn\u2019t Make It Back Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT: Let\u2019s start by going back 10 years since your debut album. Does it feel like 10 years has passed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JM: At times it does. And at times you feel like, \u201cMy goodness, where did that decade go?\u201d It\u2019s one of the things I\u2019m probably most proud of about my career. The album came out 10 years ago, I believe in August if I\u2019m not mistaken. So we\u2019ve been doing this in this capacity now for\u2026 when you talk about radio tour and all that, for 12 years, from when I signed a record deal. To still be here talking to you this long after is something I\u2019m proud of. Yeah, it\u2019s wild, man. It really is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WHvx5D-zDfo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WHvx5D-zDfo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Something\u2019s going right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I\u2019ve made some bad decisions and we\u2019ve gone the wrong route some of the time. But apparently we\u2019ve made enough of the right decisions over the course of our career to still be here. I tell people all the time, the coolest thing about it to me is I\u2019m still getting to walk on stage and play music for people and they\u2019re still showing up. I don\u2019t know what to attribute that to, but I\u2019m certainly thankful for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would the Justin Moore of today recognize the 25-year-old?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, we were just reliving some of those stories before we came out here to talk to you. It\u2019s amazing I\u2019m still alive, much less still doing this successfully. Obviously a lot of things have changed. I\u2019ve been married now for 12 years and have four little kids, so that certainly changes your perspective on life. And anything that we do with our personal lives affects our artistry and songwriting. So things have definitely slowed down a bit for sure. But it\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"35e777c4\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/GettyImages-1135647269-1554675678.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Kate Moore and Justin Moore\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> ROBYN BECK\/AFP\/Getty Images <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Do you still have those late nights?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, it just takes a little longer in the morning now to recover from those late nights and longnecks than it used to. And there\u2019s a few less of those late nights and longnecks than there used to be. But as it pertains to this album, we recorded and wrote this album like we did back then. You know, my first couple of albums, I was living in Nashville. My producer and I didn\u2019t have kids at the time. We were single and we would pop down to the beach, which is about six-and-a-half, seven-hour drive from here in Nashville and rent a motel \u2014 not a hotel, a motel \u2014 and drink beer all day and write songs. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the material on my first two albums came from those type of trips. We even recorded a lot of the vocals down there in a little hole-in-the-wall studio in Destin. And so fast forward to now. My wife and I have had a place down there for a while and I said, \u201cMan, I really want to make the most traditional country album I\u2019ve ever made. Why don\u2019t we get four, five, or six of our best buddies that we like to write songs with and go stay at my house and do it like as a retreat?\u201d And that\u2019s what we did. So there were a few late nights and longnecks in order to write this album, but that was all for work purposes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Udruzhc-poQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Udruzhc-poQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>How did \u201cWhy We Drink\u201d come to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy We Drink\u201d is actually a song that came from my mom. I\u2019ll explain because if I leave it at that, she\u2019ll be upset. Get on me. So my mom and dad live, I don\u2019t know, five or six hundred yards in front of my wife and I, which when we need babysitters is great. All other times it\u2019s not necessarily as great. But no\u2026 my wife and I are really close to my parents. We were at Friday\u2019s or Chili\u2019s or something like that a year or two ago without the kids. <\/p>\n<p>My dad doesn\u2019t drink, and my mom and my wife and I do. So I ordered a drink and then I ordered five, six more. My mom goes, \u201cSon, why do you drink so much?\u201d And I go, \u201cMom, I really don\u2019t know. Let me think about that.\u201d I get to thinking about it. I go, \u201cI can\u2019t find a reason not to.\u201d I drink when my team loses and when my team wins. You know, for all kinds of reasons. So I had this idea to write a song called \u201cWhy We Drink.\u201d It\u2019s a really fun song.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5WdKqTjyVU?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z5WdKqTjyVU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>In \u201cThat\u2019s My Boy,\u201d your son\u2019s whole life is basically planned out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know. I kind of describe myself. I hope he\u2019s a lot better than I am. But yeah, I\u2019ve written songs since becoming a dad that probably have been affected by being a dad, or have undertones of me being a parent. But I\u2019ve not written one until this that specifically talks about a child. <\/p>\n<p>We were done with day two of three days of tracking the album. We tracked it at a place called The Castle, which is a really famous studio outside of Nashville. My producer lives out near there. I don\u2019t live in town, so I usually stay in a hotel, but I was staying with him because it was near the studio. He has three boys, and I\u2019d just had my first. That night after we tracked, I said, \u201cWe need to write a song called \u2018That\u2019s My Boy.\u2019\u201d That\u2019s a saying that\u2019s been around forever. I\u2019m going, \u201cMan, I can\u2019t believe nobody\u2019s ever written this.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So anyway, long story short, we texted our good friend Casey Beathard, who is all over this album as a songwriter. He also has sons. \u2026 We were supposed to be at the studio, I think at 10, and he came over about 8:30. We wrote it in about 50 minutes and went right to the studio and recorded it. That\u2019s the first time that\u2019s happened in my career, that you write a song basically on the way to the studio. As you know, there\u2019s usually so many channels it has to go through before it ends up on an album. So, to have the idea, and eight hours later write the song, and an hour later to record the song, it is unheard of.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZIQI3pnAEw?start=2&amp;feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZIQI3pnAEw?start=2&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The idea for \u201cThe Ones That Didn\u2019t Make It Back Home\u201d started in your concerts, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It did. We had a song out eight or nine years ago, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/55GAUgjpDQA\">If Heaven Wasn\u2019t So Far Away<\/a>.\u201d It was obviously a big record for us. And No. 1 songs are great for a multitude of reasons. You know, it\u2019s good for your career. It\u2019s fun to experience. The label throws you a party in Nashville. Everybody talks about it. Your parents pat you on the back and tell you how important you are. <\/p>\n<p>But I learned with that song how powerful country music is. I had grown men bawling and squalling and they told me about how that song helped them through losing their spouse or their mother or father. I thought, \u201cMan, this is really, really special.\u201d I took note of that. I thought, \u201cIf we could do another song that could impact people\u2019s lives in a positive way, that would be really, really special.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"4d658e2d\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/Justin-Moore-2-1563804116.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Justin Moore 2\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image \" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I had a grandfather retire out of the Navy and one in the Air Force, so I always talk about our military servicemen and women as I\u2019m leading up to playing \u201cIf Heaven Wasn\u2019t So Far Away\u201d live. That even goes beyond our military, to our police officers, firefighters, teachers, nurses, etc., etc. I always end it by saying, \u201cWe\u2019ll send this out to the ones who didn\u2019t make it back home.\u201d I\u2019ve done that for eight or nine years now. I don\u2019t know why it took me eight or nine years to think, \u201cMan, that\u2019d be a good song title,\u201d but I guess better late than never. \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>My goal for the song is that it has the same impact on people as \u201cHeaven\u201d did. I think we\u2019re starting to see that out there. The message, even though it\u2019s about the military or a Marine in a combat, is also a celebration of life. It\u2019s all-encompassing. It\u2019s specifically a story about a young man who lives his life in war, and I\u2019m hopeful that this song does the same thing where people can apply it to their own lives however they see fit. I really do think this song has the opportunity to do that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813893\/justin-moore-late-nights-longnecks-and-looking-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 26m ago If you\u2019ve heard Justin Moore\u2019s \u201cWhy We Drink,\u201d then you already know that he\u2019s always down for a good time. That spirit carries over into his newest album, Late Nights and Longnecks. \u201cFive albums in, I had the most fun recording this album that I\u2019ve ever had,\u201d Moore tells CMT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 08:00:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}