Kip Moore is crisscrossing the country as part of Eric Church’s Blood, Sweat & Beers Tour, but he’s done his share of traveling and experiencing local amenities in towns across the nation. However, probably the most exotic locale the Tipton, Georgia native resided for a time was Hawaii, where he moved after college. He inhabited a small abode, enjoying time to write songs and appreciate his surroundings. “I lived in a hut,” says Kip. “It was probably a 5 x 11 foot concrete slab with a little screen around it and had a little bathroom connected to it, and that’s all I needed. It was off in the woods, probably two miles from the beach…and I would hitchhike to the beach every day and I’d surf, and then I’d backpack all over the island.” He moved to Nashville in 2004, and signed a publishing deal before obtaining a recording contract with MCA.
The singer-songwriter, who took “Somethin’ ‘Bout a Truck” to number-one earlier this year, is currently sitting in the Top 5 with his latest single, “Beer Money.”
AUDIO: Kip Moore talks about living in Hawaii before making the move to Nashville.
Kip Moore (living in Hawaii) OC: …little means. :32
“I lived in a hut. It was probably a 5 x 11 foot concrete slab with a little screen around it and had a little bathroom connected to it, and that’s all I needed. It was off in the woods, probably two miles from the beach, a mile and a half from the beach, and I would hitchhike to the beach every day and I’d surf, and then I’d backpack all over the island. And I might be gone 5 or 6 days, and I’d come back to the hut,a nd I’d have my sleeping bag and that was it. I’d shower at the beaches and carry a bunch of tuna in my backpack and my guitar, and I’d write songs and surf, and that was it for about a half a year. I was a man of little means.”
