Our friend Jenna hit her Twitter page running the other night from the Justin Moore CD Release Party.  If you didn’t already know that his album dropped that day then you were certainly informed if you followed Jenna!  Sounds like she had a TON of fun and it sounds like if you haven’t already picked up Justin’s CD you better!

Justin was introduced by DJ, Chad Herritage from Little Rock’s favorite country music station, KSSN96.

Justin’s band starting playing the introduction to the opening song, a familiar sound to most of the crowd which had them roaring with excitment. Justin then ran on stage singing “Back That Thang Up”.
As he did sing every song off of his new album, self-titled “Justin Moore”, after the first few songs the band left the stage and Justin performed a few acoustic songs, beginning with “Grandpa”, following his speech he gave on what this song meant to him, finding out his grandpa had cancer, and recently found out that Grandpa is now free of cancer. Justin also informed us that this is his favorite song off of the entire album. I must say this was a very heart-wrenching song that brought tears to my eyes as well as others around me.

After the mini acoustic set, the band came back on jamming out to a couple more from the album. Justin told the crowd “I usually have to explain this song before I sing it, but with this crowd of familiar people, I know I don’t have to!” He then began singing a song that isn’t on the album, called “Simply Guns”.

Justin began to introduce some of his good friends from Music City, such as his manager, producer, and writers including Jeremy Stover. He gave all of them hugs after introducing them, and was telling us about what he missed the most about his hometown and “he even misses being able to piss off of his front porch if he wanted to”. After much chanting by the crowd, Justin began to sing “Small Town USA”.

Following his new single, he sang a couple more songs. Justin told the crowd about the next song he was going to sing, and stating “if this song offends anyone, then you can leave!” After that being said, we all knew we were about to hear “I Could Kick Your Ass”.

During the whole performance, Justin liked showing off his belt that had his name on the BACK of it (wink, wink). The show lasted for an estimated 2 hours. It was good to see a lot of familiar people, and everyone come together for the celebration for Justin’s first cd release party. During the set Justin also covered some songs from John Anderson, and Dwight Yokam, with a closing of Bad Company.

Being apart of the crowd, I loved when Justin was conversing with us from the stage. He made everyone feel like he was speaking to each individual person alone. with his conversation, stage presence, music, and the lyrics all combined, Justin Moore is the next big thing in country music in my opinion.

- Jenna Tanner
Malvern, Ar