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Justin Moore On Writing ‘The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home’

Justin Moore’s latest single “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home,” is making quite a splash at country radio in the top five and moving up this week. While…

Justin Moore On Writing 'The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home'
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Justin Moore’s latest single “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home,” is making quite a splash at country radio in the top five and moving up this week.

While the song's success is important to Justin, it's the message on this song that means the most to him. He says, “I’m really, really proud of that song. I’ve said this a number of times. I hope it’s a hit. I think it’s a hit. It feels good to me, and that’s great, but to have a song like that, that can have a positive impact on people’s life, is even more special.”

Moore adds of the song, “I don’t think it’s a conscious decision that, ‘Hey we gotta go here in our minds to do this.’ But I think as you are writing a song like that, I think you go there. But I think it’s more subconscious and a little more melancholy.”

Justin's brand new album Late Nights And Longnecks is out now. He posted to Instagram a week ago, "My new album is here!! #LateNightsAndLongnecks is my most traditional-sounding collection to date. Hope y’all love it as much as I do."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.