Justin Moore has chosen not to live in Nashville, in favor of living in his small hometown of Poyen, Arkansas, because it’s where he’s more comfortable raising his family, but also because he has a lot of pride in where he comes from.  For people who don’t understand the sense of pride that people from small towns carry around, Justin tries to explain it using one of his favorite subjects, college football.  He says, “Arkansas doesn’t have the same recruiting ground that Louisiana or Alabama or Florida or Texas has or whatever. And so we have 10 D-1 prospects a year come out of Arkansas whereas the other ones I just mentioned may have 60. Well you have one or two of those guys who choose to go to Alabama or Florida or wherever and it just hurts your heart. You’re like man if you guys would all stay here and carry the same sense of pride as the other eight or nine that want to go play for Arkansas for the name across the front of their jersey instead of the back of the jersey then we could do something really special. Like we could take this little bitty tiny thing that nobody gives any credit to and we could compete with Alabama, we could compete with Florida.”

Justin realizes his analogy may seem a little strange, but he says what it all boils down to is this, “People in small towns don’t matter if it’s south or the north, doesn’t matter, carry that same sense of a chip on their shoulder is they just want to be recognized as legitimate in whatever it is that they want to be recognized in.”

Justin is thankful to be recognized as a great country music singer from Poyen, Arkansas.  He just celebrated his seventh #1 song with “Somebody Else Will,” and his brand new single is the title track off his latest album, “Kinda Don’t Care.”

Justin Moore – small town football analogy  1:08

“I’ll relate to football. Being from Arkansas, let’s just relate to college sports in general. Arkansas doesn’t have the same recruiting ground that Louisiana or Alabama or Florida or Texas has or whatever. And so we have 10 D-1 prospects a year come out of Arkansas whereas the other ones I just mentioned may have 60. Well you have one or two of those guys who choose to go to Alabama or Florida or wherever and it just hurts your heart. You’re like man if you guys would all stay here and carry the same sense of pride as the other eight or nine that want to go play for Arkansas for the name across the front of their jersey instead of the back of the jersey then we could do something really special. Like we could take this little bitty tiny thing that nobody gives any credit to and we could compete with Alabama, we could compete with Florida. And so, I mean that’s kind of a strange analogy I realize, but I think people in small towns don’t matter if it’s south or the north, doesn’t matter, carry that same sense of a chip on their shoulder is they just want to be recognized as legitimate in whatever it is that they want to be recognized in.”