Justin Moore photo by Kristin Barlowe, courtesy of The Valory Music Co.

"We wrote that probably five or six years ago. I steered away from writing any love songs up to that point. I said, ‘Man, we’ve got to write a love song. You can’t make a record in Nashville without a love song.’ But I was like, ‘We can’t write a sappy, I love you and all this stuff. It has to still be me.’ That’s one of the most Southern rock-sounding songs on the record.

"It’s about making love. Some of the lines are, ‘Worked hard all week and now you’re here with me/ Staring up at a summer sky.’ I’ve been married for two years and I’m gone so much, so I can relate to this song now more than I could then. I’m gone so much and you just don’t have time to do some of the things that you used to do together, so it’s about taking advantage of the time you do have together and making the most of it."

"Good Ole American Way"
(Brian Dean Maher, Justin Moore, Jeremy Stover)
"I was at home watching the news with my dad and there was some guy on there griping about why we needed to get back to the Republican way of things. Another guy said we needed to get back to the Democratic way of things. My dad said, ‘Who cares what way it is? We just need to get back to the good ole American way of things.’ I thought, ‘Man, that’s a song title right there.’

"When I came back to Nashville, we wrote that song and that’s one of those we wrote in a pretty short period of time. The thing I brought up was, ‘I wonder what my grandpa was thinking about at the time, paying $100 to fill his truck up?’ That was our motivation, what our grandpas’ take would be on things.

"I Could Kick Your Ass"
(Brian Dean Maher, Justin Moore, Jeremy Stover)

"It’s obviously tongue-in-cheek. It’s not serious, like I’m really going to whip somebody’s ass. It’s become a staple of our show. It’s more or less about a guy who has all the money in the world and he thinks that is going to allow him to just take your girl and take over your world. But the bottom line is, you might have all the money and the cars, but I can whip your ass. Obviously it’s a fun song to do live. We close the show with it and we’ve had a couple of hits. That song holds its own with the radio hits we have."

"Back That Thing Up"
(Randy Houser, Jeremy Stover)

" I always tell people, ‘I don’t know whether to apologize or say thank you after playing that song.’ If you ask my mom, it’s about a truck; that’s what I told her. But if you ask Randy or Jeremy, it’s probably about a rear end.

I thought, ‘I’m going to play that every night. It’s hilarious.’ I don’t take myself too seriously and I thought it was a lot of fun and something different that I’ve never written anything like. It was a big song for us and we sold a lot of downloads of that. The struggle for a new artist is to have people recognize who you are. Instead of going, ‘I like that song. Who does that?,’ they go, ‘Oh that’s Justin Moore.’ I think a song like ‘Back That Thing Up’ did it for us, where a middle-of-the-road song wouldn’t have. We open our show with it."

"The Only Place I Call Home"
(Dallas Davidson, Justin Moore, Jeremy Stover)

"It’s about where I grew up; it’s just a little more hard core than ‘Small Town USA.’ It’s a little more to the point, maybe, and everything in it is true. ‘I was baptized in the Baptist church, my old man taught me about a hard day’s work. I learned how to love and I learned how to fight.’ It talks about how I was looking for something, and my grandpa said, ‘It’s in the drawer in the bedroom.’ I walked in, opened the door and there was $300-$400 cash lying underneath a pistol. That is just where he kept his pistol, by the bed, and he kept a little stash of cash there. So that is the next line, ‘We keep our cash in a dresser drawer underneath a .44.’ It was real to me, and I found out it was real to other people as well."