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‘I Think it Matters’: Justin Moore Explores His Personal Values in ‘This Is My Dirt’
This week’s Makin’ Tracks looks at Moore’s new song, which “subtly explores the modern urban/rural battle over America’s very identity.”
It starts with acoustic-guitar finger-picking, as a quasi-folk song that transforms into a country piece and eventually finds Moore in a big-voiced, arena-level anthem that reinforces family values and personal history. On a two-hour drive with his sons in the spring of 2023, Montana contemplated how that transformation happens – how someone pulls into a driveway, approaches the owner with an offer and, suddenly, 100 acres becomes 150 homes. DiGiovanni produced a demo in Nashville around a light, but incessant, drumbeat, and Montana laid down a vocal, challenged by the enhanced melody that Moore had created.
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