August 28, 2025 • 11 mins
Kip Moore has been compared to Bruce Springsteen, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, John Mellencamp and others. It's funny how people always want to compare astists stylistically. Personally I think Kip Moore does his own thing and is currently doing it better than ever in his latest work. He talks about it, life on the road and where he'd lilke to see the music industry go in this visit on the Michael J Pod-cast!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, it's Michael J. Thank you for clicking on my podcast.
Really happy that we're going to spend a few minutes
together here hopefully, and you'll get to know Kip Moore
a little better.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Kip has had a few hits on country radio, but
he has so many great songs that you may or
may not have ever spent any time listening to. So
I want to give you a chance to get to
know him a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He's got a new album that came out this year.
He's on tour, and you have a chance to see
him if you can make it to the Bullpen in
d C on September eleventh. All right, that's the Bullpen
in d C, September eleventh. Ticket information is available at
the Bullpen DC dot com. One more time, that's the
(00:49):
Bullpen DC dot com. And now I give you my
conversation with Kip Moore. I know you do a lot
of shows, and you may or may not remember this
particular evening, and maybe you've done more than one show
at the Bottle and Cork, which is in Dewey Beach, Delaware.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But I've, of course I remember you.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Know I've seen you on a number of times, but
I just want to mention that in all the shows
I've ever been, you know, to attended, whatever, in my career,
that night was one of the most magical and I
will always remember just it was this jam packed shoulder
to shoulder, and you know, you stood on stage with
your band and entertained. I don't know how many hours
(01:31):
it was. It seemed like you went all night. It
was incredible and and I just I will never forget
that show.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I just I wanted to tell you that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Man, I appreciate that. I mean, I personally feel like
there's something special about our show so well, you know,
I think that's why, you know, I mean, it's no,
this is not like hidden news, Like it's not like
I've continued to work well at radio through the years.
I've done something a little outside the lines. And you know,
(02:01):
it's like, for the last six seven years, my records
haven't been played like they were in the early years.
But yet the crowds that continue to grow in size,
and I think it's just it's indicative of how special
the live show he is. So I love here and
you say that because that's how we've kind of built
(02:22):
this audience all over the world.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You know, I think it's indicative to what you bring,
which is authenticity and you know, compassion and just your
lyrics and your music.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I want to turn the table on you if
I can get more, and ask you do you remember
because if I'm serious and I think back to, like
you know, I would say a Police show the band
Police back in nineteen eighty three, like that's in my
top five. I would say Morgan Wallen currently, he's in
(02:54):
my top five. And I would put your show at
the Bottle and Cork in my top five. So let
me turn it around on you. Who is it that
you think of as being just you know, you were
at a bar, you were at a show one night,
and you thought, damn, I will never forget this show.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Do you have something like that?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Wow? I saw a guy named Zach Deputies that blew
me away years ago. I randomly walked into a dive
bar and there might have been fifty total people watching
the show in a room that held nine hundred, right,
and I randomly bought a ten dollar ticket and was
blown away by Zach Deputy, absolutely blown away by his talent. Wow.
(03:35):
On a bigger level, I'll never forget seeing Springsteen when
I was about twenty three, and that was when he
was you know, he was probably in his late fifties
at the time, and he was still full of all
that gusto and man, it was something special. And I
mean that's kind of you know, our show. There's been
(03:58):
many write ups that kind of mirror how that show is.
You know, the feeling that show give you. And we
play for anywhere from two and a half to three
hours almost every time we headlines.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I know it because it's such a fan base that
knows all of the album cuts. It's a night of
you know, I've got what four total hits, Yeah, and
then I might play three of them and we'll play
for three hours, and you never it just feels like
a night full of hips because the fan base knows.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, I hate that you say that, because I don't
look at you like this. I mean, there might be
three or four tracks that have gotten a lot of airplay,
but you've got so many great songs.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, I think that's it. I think that's what it
means is you know, you know you I mean just
the Instagram story my team just put up. I didn't
even know they had that clip, but they had an
overhead view of us this past weekend in Wisconsin, and
I think there was ten thousand people there for our
show there Wow, playing wild Ones right, and it was
(05:02):
deafening how loud they were singing that track. It's an
air of view and you can you really get a
sense of how well they and that's just an album
cut and it's louder than Truck was, right. I mean,
it was so loud, and so you know, I just
mean that so many of these songs never got a
chance to really go as singles. And then it's weird
(05:25):
because so many that so many of the songs that
I did want a singles like you take Heart's Desire.
You know, a pop and rock station in South Africa
found that song. This random programe director that owned the station.
He could do whatever he wanted, right, and he said
he just fell in love with the wild One directord
because someone brought it to his house and he put
while he put Heart's Desire in primetime hours and within
(05:49):
a month it went to number one and stayed there
for weeks. I love it song in South Africa.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's incredible, that's awesome, that is an awesome story.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So you know, the music business has changed so much
in our lives, and you know you've been around long
enough to see it go from something you could physically hold,
you know, records, tape CDs to now you know, videos
on YouTube and streaming. If you had your your wish,
how would you how would you change things from the
(06:18):
process that were in these days?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What would what would you like to see happen?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Do want to be honest with you, absolutely? I think
I think you have to do away with how testing
is done. Okay, hit radio to begin with, that's gonna
be the first thing you threw out the window, right,
because there's so many holes in that and it's so obvious.
(06:45):
You just take what I just said. For instance, you know,
playing in Wisconsin and this is a program director that
brought it up to that said this to me, right,
you hear the difference in the passion Ten thousand people
were singing behind that album cut yep, and then there
was somebody that was owned, let's say, before singing a
song that went number one, that there was no feeling
(07:08):
about it one.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Way or the other, exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So there's so many holes to the testing, who's doing
the testing? Who are because so many times I've I
have gone to do things for let's say stations, and
they have their whatever the I'm probably getting myself in
trouble now. Then they're not the ones that are going
(07:32):
to the shows. They're not the ones that are buying
the tickets. A lot of times exactly to me, there's
a disconnect with what sometimes what radio programmers and their
actual market what they want to hear. Because the problem
is is if if I'm driving through Kentucky and then
I go through Tennessee and then I go through Alabama,
then I go through South Carolina, and I go through
(07:52):
North Carolina, which I've done all in one stint, and
I hear the play the same playlist, there's a major
major problem. People are so different. Yeah, not only state
the state, but county line to county line.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You know you are in You're right.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I agree with you a million that you're Yeah. I
feel like you're losing all of your mature listeners. Bob
playcating to the young streamer, Well, I'm bomb. The people
that listen in the genre are not finding a place
to find music.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, that is why I'm placating everybody who's a Kit
More fan and asking you these questions. Hey, Kem, so listen,
let's talk about your latest album, Solitary Tracks. You came
out with an edition of it with twenty three tracks,
and then you did the deluxe with twenty six.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I've been listening to everything.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
From High Hopes to Live Inside to you know the
Pretty Horses. I know you've said that you you say
Forever is a Lie is one of your favorites. That's
a great song too. You're getting so much reaction in comments.
You must be really proud of this album and I
want everyone to to download it, to buy it, to
listen to it. Solitary Tracks. Kip Moore, what do you
(09:05):
want to say about it?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
First off, man, I got to tell you this, and
I've always enjoyed you. You know, we met so many
years ago, but this might be Your interviews are always
they're always great, man, and they're enjoyable because you do
your homework and I really appreciate it. Yeah, I don't.
I don't know if we've had a visceral reaction to
(09:29):
a record like this since Wild Ones. I agree, especially overseas,
and we've built something so beautiful in Europe and they
discovered me at guitar Man. So like when I play
Truck in Europe, they don't even know it. It's a
really funny thing, so I just can take it out
of the setlist.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But in the UK though, I mean, dude, you're oh yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, in the UK they know Truck. But like in Europe,
when I go deep into like Germany and I do
Spain and I do Sweden, Switzerland, govern me act guitar
man in.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The bull gotcha, I got you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So it's interesting how they gravitate to the cerebral songs
over there, okay, and they want to talk about lyrics
and bars. That's a really fascinating thing. They come up
to you and they want to talk about lyrics instead
of taking a picture with you.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's fun. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's incredible. But so this Solitary Tracks record, that's a
very cerebral record they're obsessed with. And when we kick
into the song Solitary Tracks, it is bananas inside, like
it's just and I'm singing about Indiana girl with an
Idaho heart. They all go nuts.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's the coolest things. So yeah, I mean this record
has been really special so far.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Kip, I can't tell you how excited we are to
see you again and to hear you perform some of
these news tracks on your album. I'll tell you what
one more time. Ticket info for your show at the
Bullpen in Washington, d C on set September eleventh is
the Bullpen DC dot com The Bullpen DC dot Com.
(11:06):
It was great catching up with you.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hey, I appreciate all I love through the years in
this station. Man, I still believe so well the power
radio check.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, I believe in the power of you. Take care, buddy. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If you want to find out more about Kip Moore,
you search on his music, give a listen to his
latest album, listen to the songs he's released over the years,
and tell me you don't hear what I do from
Kip Moore.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Thanks for listening to the Michael J. Podcast.
Hi, it's Michael J. Thank you for clicking on my podcast.
Really happy that we're going to spend a few minutes
together here hopefully, and you'll get to know Kip Moore
a little better.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Kip has had a few hits on country radio, but
he has so many great songs that you may or
may not have ever spent any time listening to. So
I want to give you a chance to get to
know him a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He's got a new album that came out this year.
He's on tour, and you have a chance to see
him if you can make it to the Bullpen in
d C on September eleventh. All right, that's the Bullpen
in d C, September eleventh. Ticket information is available at
the Bullpen DC dot com. One more time, that's the
(00:49):
Bullpen DC dot com. And now I give you my
conversation with Kip Moore. I know you do a lot
of shows, and you may or may not remember this
particular evening, and maybe you've done more than one show
at the Bottle and Cork, which is in Dewey Beach, Delaware.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But I've, of course I remember you.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Know I've seen you on a number of times, but
I just want to mention that in all the shows
I've ever been, you know, to attended, whatever, in my career,
that night was one of the most magical and I
will always remember just it was this jam packed shoulder
to shoulder, and you know, you stood on stage with
your band and entertained. I don't know how many hours
(01:31):
it was. It seemed like you went all night. It
was incredible and and I just I will never forget
that show.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I just I wanted to tell you that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Man, I appreciate that. I mean, I personally feel like
there's something special about our show so well, you know,
I think that's why, you know, I mean, it's no,
this is not like hidden news, Like it's not like
I've continued to work well at radio through the years.
I've done something a little outside the lines. And you know,
(02:01):
it's like, for the last six seven years, my records
haven't been played like they were in the early years.
But yet the crowds that continue to grow in size,
and I think it's just it's indicative of how special
the live show he is. So I love here and
you say that because that's how we've kind of built
(02:22):
this audience all over the world.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You know, I think it's indicative to what you bring,
which is authenticity and you know, compassion and just your
lyrics and your music.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
It's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So I want to turn the table on you if
I can get more, and ask you do you remember
because if I'm serious and I think back to, like
you know, I would say a Police show the band
Police back in nineteen eighty three, like that's in my
top five. I would say Morgan Wallen currently, he's in
(02:54):
my top five. And I would put your show at
the Bottle and Cork in my top five. So let
me turn it around on you. Who is it that
you think of as being just you know, you were
at a bar, you were at a show one night,
and you thought, damn, I will never forget this show.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Do you have something like that?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Wow? I saw a guy named Zach Deputies that blew
me away years ago. I randomly walked into a dive
bar and there might have been fifty total people watching
the show in a room that held nine hundred, right,
and I randomly bought a ten dollar ticket and was
blown away by Zach Deputy, absolutely blown away by his talent. Wow.
(03:35):
On a bigger level, I'll never forget seeing Springsteen when
I was about twenty three, and that was when he
was you know, he was probably in his late fifties
at the time, and he was still full of all
that gusto and man, it was something special. And I
mean that's kind of you know, our show. There's been
(03:58):
many write ups that kind of mirror how that show is.
You know, the feeling that show give you. And we
play for anywhere from two and a half to three
hours almost every time we headlines.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I know it because it's such a fan base that
knows all of the album cuts. It's a night of
you know, I've got what four total hits, Yeah, and
then I might play three of them and we'll play
for three hours, and you never it just feels like
a night full of hips because the fan base knows.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, I hate that you say that, because I don't
look at you like this. I mean, there might be
three or four tracks that have gotten a lot of airplay,
but you've got so many great songs.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, I think that's it. I think that's what it
means is you know, you know you I mean just
the Instagram story my team just put up. I didn't
even know they had that clip, but they had an
overhead view of us this past weekend in Wisconsin, and
I think there was ten thousand people there for our
show there Wow, playing wild Ones right, and it was
(05:02):
deafening how loud they were singing that track. It's an
air of view and you can you really get a
sense of how well they and that's just an album
cut and it's louder than Truck was, right. I mean,
it was so loud, and so you know, I just
mean that so many of these songs never got a
chance to really go as singles. And then it's weird
(05:25):
because so many that so many of the songs that
I did want a singles like you take Heart's Desire.
You know, a pop and rock station in South Africa
found that song. This random programe director that owned the station.
He could do whatever he wanted, right, and he said
he just fell in love with the wild One directord
because someone brought it to his house and he put
while he put Heart's Desire in primetime hours and within
(05:49):
a month it went to number one and stayed there
for weeks. I love it song in South Africa.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It's incredible, that's awesome, that is an awesome story.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So you know, the music business has changed so much
in our lives, and you know you've been around long
enough to see it go from something you could physically hold,
you know, records, tape CDs to now you know, videos
on YouTube and streaming. If you had your your wish,
how would you how would you change things from the
(06:18):
process that were in these days?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What would what would you like to see happen?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Do want to be honest with you, absolutely? I think
I think you have to do away with how testing
is done. Okay, hit radio to begin with, that's gonna
be the first thing you threw out the window, right,
because there's so many holes in that and it's so obvious.
(06:45):
You just take what I just said. For instance, you know,
playing in Wisconsin and this is a program director that
brought it up to that said this to me, right,
you hear the difference in the passion Ten thousand people
were singing behind that album cut yep, and then there
was somebody that was owned, let's say, before singing a
song that went number one, that there was no feeling
(07:08):
about it one.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Way or the other, exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
So there's so many holes to the testing, who's doing
the testing? Who are because so many times I've I
have gone to do things for let's say stations, and
they have their whatever the I'm probably getting myself in
trouble now. Then they're not the ones that are going
(07:32):
to the shows. They're not the ones that are buying
the tickets. A lot of times exactly to me, there's
a disconnect with what sometimes what radio programmers and their
actual market what they want to hear. Because the problem
is is if if I'm driving through Kentucky and then
I go through Tennessee and then I go through Alabama,
then I go through South Carolina, and I go through
(07:52):
North Carolina, which I've done all in one stint, and
I hear the play the same playlist, there's a major
major problem. People are so different. Yeah, not only state
the state, but county line to county line.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You know you are in You're right.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I agree with you a million that you're Yeah. I
feel like you're losing all of your mature listeners. Bob
playcating to the young streamer, Well, I'm bomb. The people
that listen in the genre are not finding a place
to find music.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well, that is why I'm placating everybody who's a Kit
More fan and asking you these questions. Hey, Kem, so listen,
let's talk about your latest album, Solitary Tracks. You came
out with an edition of it with twenty three tracks,
and then you did the deluxe with twenty six.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I've been listening to everything.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
From High Hopes to Live Inside to you know the
Pretty Horses. I know you've said that you you say
Forever is a Lie is one of your favorites. That's
a great song too. You're getting so much reaction in comments.
You must be really proud of this album and I
want everyone to to download it, to buy it, to
listen to it. Solitary Tracks. Kip Moore, what do you
(09:05):
want to say about it?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
First off, man, I got to tell you this, and
I've always enjoyed you. You know, we met so many
years ago, but this might be Your interviews are always
they're always great, man, and they're enjoyable because you do
your homework and I really appreciate it. Yeah, I don't.
I don't know if we've had a visceral reaction to
(09:29):
a record like this since Wild Ones. I agree, especially overseas,
and we've built something so beautiful in Europe and they
discovered me at guitar Man. So like when I play
Truck in Europe, they don't even know it. It's a
really funny thing, so I just can take it out
of the setlist.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
But in the UK though, I mean, dude, you're oh yeah,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, in the UK they know Truck. But like in Europe,
when I go deep into like Germany and I do
Spain and I do Sweden, Switzerland, govern me act guitar
man in.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The bull gotcha, I got you.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So it's interesting how they gravitate to the cerebral songs
over there, okay, and they want to talk about lyrics
and bars. That's a really fascinating thing. They come up
to you and they want to talk about lyrics instead
of taking a picture with you.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's fun. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's incredible. But so this Solitary Tracks record, that's a
very cerebral record they're obsessed with. And when we kick
into the song Solitary Tracks, it is bananas inside, like
it's just and I'm singing about Indiana girl with an
Idaho heart. They all go nuts.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
It's the coolest things. So yeah, I mean this record
has been really special so far.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Kip, I can't tell you how excited we are to
see you again and to hear you perform some of
these news tracks on your album. I'll tell you what
one more time. Ticket info for your show at the
Bullpen in Washington, d C on set September eleventh is
the Bullpen DC dot com The Bullpen DC dot Com.
(11:06):
It was great catching up with you.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hey, I appreciate all I love through the years in
this station. Man, I still believe so well the power
radio check.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Well, I believe in the power of you. Take care, buddy. Now.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
If you want to find out more about Kip Moore,
you search on his music, give a listen to his
latest album, listen to the songs he's released over the years,
and tell me you don't hear what I do from
Kip Moore.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Thanks for listening to the Michael J. Podcast.
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