Justin Moore - Off the Beaten Path - Music & Performance - CD

Country star Justin Moore will take fans on a new journey and into some unfamiliar territory with the release of OFF THE BEATEN PATH. His third studio album on the Valory Music Co. Will feature the Top 20-and-climbing "Point at You," his fastest-rising single to date. Justin Moore promises the Jeremy Stover produced project will definitely come with a few surprises.

For Justin Moore, going off the beaten path doesn't mean that he's suddenly getting quirky. No, the beaten path he alludes to in the title of his third album is the well-worn country-pop path that so many of his peers take in 2013. Unlike Luke Bryan and his ilk, Moore is no suburban country bro, singing songs for spring break and sports bars, but that isn't to say that the singer is stuck in the past, either. When he sings about "Country Radio," he isn't lamenting the loss of real country -- the Hanks, Merles, Cashs, and Georges of legend -- he's happy to be laying back with his girl and listening to what's on the radio right now. And, for as traditionalist as he is in some respects -- he has a deep twang that'd suit classic honky tonk -- he's a modern guy, bearing the clear influence of Brooks & Dunn, happy to thread in an electronic drum loop and a bit of hip-hop on the album's title track, ready to indulge in sentimentality at a moment's notice, gilding his uptempo cuts with arena-country guitars. Underneath all this gloss, Moore is proud to be a redneck -- this is especially true on the deluxe edition of the albums, which is filled out with five songs about hillbillies, hangovers, the open road, and beer, all rowdier than what's on the finished album (and, tellingly, bearing more original songwriting credits than the LP itself) -- and that also gives the album an air of authenticity. At a moment when country is teeming with affable guys next door, Moore is digging his boots into the backroads, which does indeed mean he's wandering down a path few are traveling. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Performer	Justin Moore
Music genre	Country
Music subgenre	POP COUNTRY
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Original release date	2013
Edition	Standard
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Justin Moore - Off the Beaten Path [CD]
Track listing	Old Back in the New School, Lettin the Night Roll, Old Habits, Point at You, I'd Want It to Be Yours, This Kind of Town, Country Radio, That's How I Know You Love Me, Off the Beaten Path, One Dirt Road, For Some Ol Redneck Reason
Record label	Valory
Music producer	Jeremy Stover
Track name	Point at You
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N