Album releases become available for download Fridays at midnight East Coast Time. Since that's 9pm Thursday night West Coast Time, every Thursday night, Pepper picks her two favorite songs from the new country albums and plays them on K-Frog for New at Nine! Here are her picks for this week.
With his new album Late Nights and Longnecks, Justin Moore is feeling a confidence he's never experienced before. "I think just being 12 years into this now, when we wrote all these songs, I said, 'Let's just not worry about three minutes and you know we need this type of song or we need that type song,'" he explains in a statement from his label. "You know, there have been times in the past where I go, 'Man we really need a tempo or we really need a ballad,' or whatever.
"And you have to be cognizant of those things, but I didn't really care on this album," he continues. "I just kind of was like, 'Let's just write the best songs we can write and then go from there.' And I feel like we did that. And every artist will also tell you every single album is the best they've ever put out, me included.
"But I genuinely believe that with this album. I truly do."
Here are the songs I played from Late Nights and Longnecks for New at Nine tonight:
1. Why We Drink
2. The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home