Tennessee Boy

Album: Room to Spare: The Acoustic Sessions (2018)
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  • This stripped-down song finds Kip Moore looking back nostalgically at simpler times. The singer explained to Esquire that he penned this ode to sipping moonshine among a few good friends with frequent collaborator Dan Couch.

    Moore started recounting a memory to Couch of hanging out with a girl named Gretchen in the South Georgia woods. He was laying on the hood of her Honda Accord listening to Van Morrison's "Moondance" and as he and Gretchen got drunk on wine they started dancing around. "That was my introduction to that carefree love feeling," he said.

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