NOAH HICKS FT. JUSTIN MOORE - Dirt Roads Dirt - Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment

Sing about what you know and know about what you sing. That’s the 2-ingredient recipe for authenticity and raw truth that laces an extension of who an artist is through their songs, making each next melody and lyrical turn the connection line between them and the listener.

Noah Hicks, a chicken farm boy from Carrollton, GA who was raised on the backroad dirt, has been perfecting that recipe throughout the past two years with a catalog of addictively catchy, modern country gems such as “I Can Tell You’re From A Small Town,” “Dirt On It,” “Creek Don’t Rise” and “Red Clay Summer.”

He’s now joined by Justin Moore on “Dirt Road Dirt” as the two write a love-letter to the inhabitants of the lifestyle they both know and love.

Written by Noah, Zach Abend, and Jordan Minton, the upbeat anthem leans into an ultra-modern flow as Hicks bends the edge of voice against the familiar drawl of Moore’s, captivating the listener line by line through each of their individual distinctions as they wrap around descriptives of small-town, blue-collar folks in each of the verses.

Painting a vivid picture of the hard-working farmers and the hometown born and never leavers, giving nods to those who sit on the riverbank sipping Black Jack® out of a paper sack, the red clay rednecks who read the red words, and those map dot dwellers who keep their way of life stuck on the ideals of the past, the twosome blend their voices together into an exuberant toast as they roll to the chorus with an arm raised high and Solo cup in hand:

“Here’s to y’all drivin’ hand me downs with the hammer down

With some country sound crankin’ out the kickers

Here’s to y’all cruising 35’s, crossing county lines

Silos in the sky, lookin’ like a picture

I’m talkin’ water tower, barbed wire fences

Coal black smoke diesel engines

Winding by a white church, little heaven on earth

Here’s to all y’all keeping dirt roads dirt”

With each next layer that Noah Hicks unravels he’s outlining the definitions of who he is and where he comes from, albeit this time with a helping hand from Justin Moore. By expertly continuing to introduce himself through song in such an autobiographical way, he’s not only raising his buzz level status and quickly putting himself on the radar as one to watch, but he’s creating a strong foundational rapport with the country loving lifestyler’s who live their dirt road lives just like him. 

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork c/o Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment)