Moonshine Road

Album: New To This Town (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • The third single from New to This Town is a sultry tune that was penned by Kix with Leslie Satcher. He told Radio.com that the song takes him back to his youthful days in Louisiana. "There was this old roadhouse," he recalled, where "we got in fights, we picked up girls, we drank beer, there was always trouble. You knew something was going to happen when you went down there.

    "Those backroads through the cypress trees," he added, "and the hanging moss, you could just feel the brew stirring on your way down there. And that's sorta the background of what that song is about."
  • Brooks told Radio.com the song's groove also recalls his time growing up in Louisiana. It "is just something I've written a lot of songs to and play a lot," he explained. "It's just that swampy thing, and that's where I come from."

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