{"id":138052,"date":"2025-02-27T12:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/kip-moore-talks-new-album-solitary-tracks-signing-with-a-new-label-building-a-career-with-international-appeal-people-just-want-good-music-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T17:08:41","slug":"kip-moore-talks-new-album-solitary-tracks-signing-with-a-new-label-building-a-career-with-international-appeal-people-just-want-good-music-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/27\/kip-moore-talks-new-album-solitary-tracks-signing-with-a-new-label-building-a-career-with-international-appeal-people-just-want-good-music-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kip Moore Talks New Album \u2018Solitary Tracks,\u2019 Signing With a New Label, Building a Career With International Appeal: \u2018People Just Want Good\u00a0Music\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kip-moore\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kip-moore\/\">Kip Moore<\/a> is gearing up for a year filled with new beginnings, including the launch of two tours, a fresh label home at Virgin Music Group, and the release of his sixth studio album, <em>Solitary Tracks<\/em>, out Friday (Feb. 28).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn preparation, Moore has taken his annual trip to rejuvenate in Maui, a place he\u2019s found respite since 2014. \u201cI\u2019ll come out here to surf for a month or so and relax,\u201d Moore tells <em>Billboard<\/em> via phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJust over a decade ago, Moore broke through with his debut hit, \u201cSomething \u2018Bout a Truck,\u201d which spent two weeks atop Billboard\u2019s Country Airplay chart. He would earn four more Country Airplay top 5 hits, including \u201cMore Girls Like You\u201d and \u201cLast Shot.\u201d Since then, Moore has veered increasingly creative with his sound and projects, refining the grizzled, heartland rock sound that has become part of his signature creative palette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter Moore parted ways with UMG imprint MCA Nashville in 2024, he says he recorded the first nine songs on the album independently. <em>Solitary Tracks<\/em> was intended to encompass just 13 songs, but given the lack of time constraints, he kept creating and recording \u2014 resulting in a 23-song span, split over four parts, encompassing rock (\u201cLive Here to Work,\u201d \u201cLove and War\u201d), pared-back singer-songwriter tracks (\u201cForever is a Lie\u201d), muscular folk-rock (\u201cLearning as I Go\u201d) and old-school country (\u201cAlley Cat\u201d). Throughout, he touches on themes of introspection, maturity, romance, isolation, cherishing freedom and embracing life shifts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kip Moore - Live Here To Work (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9YEGaRAIWic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMoore co-produced the album with The Cadillac Three\u2019s Jaren Johnston, with additional production by Oscar Charles and Jay Joyce. Moore has been insistent on letting the music itself signal when to embark on an album cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI wrote \u2018High Hopes\u2019 and \u2018Livin\u2019 Side\u2019 back-to-back. I write every morning, but I don\u2019t know I\u2019m in an album cycle until something clicks. When I wrote those two songs within 24 hours of each other, I knew I had something to say. I compiled these songs and I had four months left to turn it in,\u201d he says. \u201cThey were like, \u2018You don\u2019t have to turn an album in until October,\u2019 so I kept writing. So, with sides C and D, all the extra songs just became this eclectic mix. It\u2019s kind of all over the place, and that\u2019s what I like about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLive Here to Work\u201d \u2014 with its opening anthem of a lyric, \u201cF\u2013k that, I don\u2019t live here to work\u201d \u2013feels like a modern version of the 1977 Johnny Paycheck hit \u201cTake This Job and Shove It.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun to play at shows, I can tell you that much. I always feel a little bad if I see a couple of young kids in the crowd, but I just step on the gas anyway,\u201d Moore says, noting that the song was inspired by overhearing the grumblings of some construction workers near his home. \u201cOne of them said, \u2018The hell with that. I don\u2019t live here to work,\u2019 and I thought, \u2018Well, f\u2013k, we\u2019ll be a little more emphatic. I ended up writing around that. I\u2019d done those kinds of constructions jobs before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMoore co-wrote nearly every song on the album, with the exception of the moody, swaggering \u201cBad Spot,\u201d a solo write from Casey Beathard, who also contributed to seven other songs on <em>Solitary Tracks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt felt like everything I wanted to say at that particular time in my life, and it felt so cohesive, and I loved the hook,\u201d Moore says. \u201cWe wrote a lot [of songs] at my house on the East Coast, and he\u2019s never the type of guy who\u2019s going to try to push his own music on you \u2014 but I asked if he had written anything he would want me to hear, and he suggested \u2018Bad Spot.\u2019 It was automatic for me. It was too good of a song not to record.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kip Moore - Bad Spot\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DCMFQ7Yp6cI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBack in mid-2017, for his third album <em>Slowheart<\/em>, Moore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/kip-moore-financial-assistance-nashville-songwriters-7809376\/\">pledged to help songwriters<\/a>, many of whom have been severely hurt by the switch from an album to a singles and streaming economy, by paying an annual bonus to writers who contributed songs to his albums that weren\u2019t selected as radio singles. He is considering doing that again with this project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about going back to it on this record,\u201d Moore says. \u201cWhen I did that the first time around, my hope was that it would create a little trickle effect with other artists, but that\u2019s not what happened. My whole hope was if we were all kind of tipping out these songwriters, that if someone has a cut with me and a cut with a Keith Urban or another artist, there\u2019s three artists all tipping him $5,000\u2014well, $15,000 ends up being a big difference in yearly income.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe adds, \u201cI realized [that] because the streaming pay is so f\u2013ked, what it\u2019s done is it\u2019s made writers not just focus on writing the best song that day; it\u2019s made writers only thing about a single for radio, and that\u2019s detrimental to the writing process. If they\u2019re doing the right thing and paying these songwriters the right way, the songs will only get better. But I don\u2019t see that happening without it just becoming a law in Congress driving that force. I can\u2019t see anybody letting go of their lion\u2019s share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCompounding the problem is hit songs sounding homogenous, as many new artists chase a sound similar to massive hitmakers such as Zach Bryan\u2019s roots-rock sound, or Morgan Wallen\u2019s brand of pop-country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kip Moore - Learning As I Go (Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ywEKshhIAa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s just a phenomenon on its own, and I also knew it would create 10,000 Zach Bryan wannabes,\u201d Moore says. \u201cWith anything that pops, you get too many artists [following] that don\u2019t know who they are to begin with. I mean, right now, you\u2019ve got four Morgan Wallens on the radio,\u201d he says. \u201cIt waters down the format. Nobody\u2019s going to do it better than Morgan Wallen, so it\u2019s all going to be 2.0, but the crazy thing is they get rewarded and get tons of airplay. Back in the \u201880s, I can\u2019t imagine there being someone that sounded just like Tom Petty [on the radio] at the height of Tom Petty, or someone sounding like Bruce Springsteen or Prince at the height of their careers. Variety has always been key. I love that Zach Top has popped, but I don\u2019t want to hear 10 other clones trying to sound like Zach Top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Georgia native has been particularly successful in perhaps an even more challenging endeavor: building up an international fanbase. That focus on international markets sparked when he saw how audiences reacted to his <em>Up All Night<\/em> album when he played the UK country music festival C2C in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI was the opening act and we saw in two markets where we had the highest merch and CD sales,\u201d he recalls. \u201cYou have to keep engaging it. Last year, we did two shows in Germany. This year, we\u2019re doing three. We\u2019re doing two new markets. And it\u2019s tough because it costs so much to go over there, but it\u2019s worth it in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kip Moore - Flowers In December\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMLLrTikSYA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMoore has toured New Zealand and the Netherlands, while Wimpie van der Sandt, CEO of Bok Radio, helped bring Moore\u2019s music to South Africa, producing the inaugural Cape Town Country Music Festival, held in October, which Moore co-headlined with Zac Brown Band. Moore\u2019s dedication to international touring earned him the Country Music Association\u2019s 2024 international artist achievement award. Moore still has his sights set on performing in markets including Brazil, Mexico and Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMoore says that focus on delivering internationally was a key reason he chose to align with Virgin Music Group, rather than sign with another Nashville-based label. Though labels came calling immediately after he left MCA Nashville, he spent five months making his decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe whole time I wanted to at least get a distributor, because I don\u2019t want to fool with that\u2014that\u2019s a headache, and even almost every independent artist has a label doing distribution,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I knew I wanted to team up with a label, but I needed the right thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c[I needed] someone who understood the international capacity, and that is where Virgin came in,\u201d he continues. \u201cThey had foot soldiers all over the place, so they wanted to pour gas on the international thing \u2014 which, the Nashville labels are not as focused on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis spring, Moore will launch the Solitary Tracks World Tour, which will visit Sweden, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the U.K. In June, he\u2019ll return stateside to team with longtime friend, surfing buddy and fellow musician Billy Currington for a run of U.S. shows in states including Florida, California, Virginia and Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHe comes to Maui around the same time I do, and we\u2019ve surfed together for several years,\u201d Moore says. \u201cBilly and I are both very solitary walkers through this life, and I think we share a bit of a kindred spirit. Billy was one of the first people to take me on tour when the <em>Up All Night<\/em> record came out and I did a tour with him in 2012 or so. I still to this day say he has one of the purest country voices in the world. When he\u2019s doing pure country music, there ain\u2019t a whole lot of people that do it better than him.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kip Moore - Wildfire (Official)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wkQC0Ldr864?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/kip-moore-solitary-tracks-album-1235911277\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kip Moore is gearing up for a year filled with new beginnings, including the launch of two tours, a fresh label home at Virgin Music Group, and the release of his sixth studio album, Solitary Tracks, out Friday (Feb. 28). In preparation, Moore has taken his annual trip to rejuvenate in Maui, a place he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}