For several years, country star Justin Moore’s traditional sound helped him carve a nice little niche in Nashville.
Around the time of his 2009 performance at the Foothills Fall Festival in downtown Maryville, when “Small Town USA” made him a bankable star, Moore was welcomed as one of the guys with roots that run deep, up the line through guys like George Strait and Garth Brooks, all the way back to men like George Jones and Ray Price. Around the time his second record came out, however, mainstream country took another bounce, and public taste shifted toward country party-rock.