{"id":38604,"date":"2023-11-09T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38604"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:57:01","slug":"lakelands-mccoy-moore-living-out-his-country-music-dreams-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/09\/lakelands-mccoy-moore-living-out-his-country-music-dreams-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland&#8217;s McCoy Moore living out his country music dreams in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, McCoy Moore said he still can\u2019t believe he\u2019s living in Nashville and building a career in country music.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCoy-Moore.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCoy-Moore.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/McCoy-Moore-150x150.jpeg 150w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI grew up listening to all these people, and now I\u2019m rubbing shoulders with them. It\u2019s weird.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moore, 22, grew up playing baseball in Lakeland, but in high school, he changed his tune, learning to play guitar from YouTube videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then he met future country superstar Luke Combs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBack then, when I was a huge fan, nobody knew who he was. I was calling into all the radio stations and telling them to play Luke Combs,&#8221; Moore said. &#8220;And I ended up going to a show and met him, and he\u2019s been a huge mentor for me and been a good friend to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n        \n        <div class=\"embedpress-gutenberg-wrapper source-provider-Youtube aligncenter ep-clear   ep-content-protection-disabled inline\" id=\"73f75385-3c57-4c17-91b2-e8e46a3135d1\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube \">\n            <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper \">\n                <div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-5f05ef83092b29d0a99d0dfd58e8b2d9\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content\">\n                    <div >\n                        <div class=\"ep-embed-content-wraper preset-default insta-grid ep-google-photos-carousel\"\n                            style=\"max-width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"                                                                                                                >\n\n                            <div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-60a4386353512f3bfff7fd348a00925b ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:450px; max-height:450px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Take Me Back - McCoy Moore (Official Audio)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vy_0xLPPshI?feature=oembed&#038;color=red&#038;rel=0&#038;controls=1&#038;start=&#038;end=&#038;fs=0&#038;iv_load_policy=0&#038;autoplay=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"Lakeland&#8217;s McCoy Moore living out his country music dreams in Nashville\"><\/iframe><\/div>                        <\/div>\n\n                                            <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At just 19, McCoy left Lakeland for Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretty quickly, he became friends with fellow Floridian Jake Owen and eventually signed a publishing deal with Smack Songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, he\u2019s writing songs for other artists and working on breaking out on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf I\u2019m going to be an artist in any capacity, I believe songs come first, and you really have to care about them to build a career,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of Moore&#8217;s songs are inspired by his hometown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI write about Lakeland a ton. I definitely try to wear Lakeland across my chest as much as I can. I\u2019m so proud to be from Florida. It was the best place to grow up ever,&#8221; Moore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though Moore is living out his country music dreams, he\u2019s not quite there yet and won\u2019t be going to the Country Music Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI kinda have this little chip on my shoulder,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Until I\u2019m going for me, I don\u2019t want to go, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It all started as a kid listening to country music on the radio with his family in Lakeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, he\u2019s the one playing, and he\u2019s just getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, McCoy Moore said he still can\u2019t believe he\u2019s living in Nashville and building a career in country music. \u201cI grew up listening to all these people, and now I\u2019m&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[6656],"class_list":["post-38604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-lakelands-mccoy-moore-living-out-his-country-music-dreams-in-nashville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38606,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38604\/revisions\/38606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}