Born Justin Cole Moore, the singer/songwriter began life in small town America, working on his family’s farm, singing gospel songs in Church and performing in his junior year of high school, where he won a talent show at just eight years old. After which he joined his uncle’s Southern rock band and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., back in 2002. He then met a gentleman named Scott Borchetta, a music executive, who was creating the record label Valory Music Group and said he would like to sign Moore if he could be patient.
Sure enough in 2008 Justin Moore signed to the Valory Music Group which represented an epoch in his music career, with his first radio single “Back That Thing Up” reaching number 38 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. For Moore’s first full-length he left it up to fans to decide on which songs should be on the album by allowing them to make a playlist of his songs, with the top ten most picked making it to the album. By this point Moore has brought together an impressive group of musicians which led to a series of opening support slots on tours by Luke Bryan, Trace Adkins, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Moore has charted in the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart a total of eight times, four of which he topped with his songs “Small Town USA”, “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away”, “Til My Last Day” and “Lettin’ the Night Roll”. On top of this Moore’s two most recent albums “Outlaws Like Me” and “Off the Beaten Path” have both topped the Billboard Country Album charts. Steve Leggett of Allmusic puts this down to Moore having a ‘ready made imagine’ that’s not hard to publicise and his ability to write his own music is another string to his bow.
In 2014 Justin Moore won the award for New Artist of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.
Justin Moore is one of the most charismatic frontmen on the country circuit and he really knows how to inject a sense of rock to his live show. Appearing with tipped hat and a checkered shirt, he may look like the country stereotype yet he performs his show with an emphasis on the percussive rock as opposed to the two dimensional acoustic guitar.
Since his self titled debut was released in 2009, Moore has gained a huge following across the States and the cheers that lift the roof as the stage lights fly skywards are deafening. He now has enjoyed two Country chart topping albums and two singles so the crowd knows the material well as the opening bars to 'Point At You' begin.
The audience's dedication does not waver throughout the evening and Moore whips them into frenzy before unleashing note perfect versions of singles 'Lettin' The Night Roll'. The only time that the crowd becomes completely silent is during a tender rendition of 'If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away' where Justin takes centre stage and really showcases the reason he has enjoyed such great success in a relatively short amount of time.
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