Country star Kip Moore is still doing it his way

June 3, 2015 at 12:05a.m.

Just chugging along is what Kip Moore has to say about his country career, which in recent years has been steaming down the track.

The Nashville singer-songwriter landed on the Music City scene with his 2012 debut effort “Up All Night,” which was not only the best-selling debut album from any solo male country artist in 2012 and 2013, but also included No. 1 singles “Somethin’ ’Bout A Truck” and “Hey Pretty Girl,” as well as his top-10 hit “Beer Money.”

Now the 35-year-old performer is getting ready to release his highly anticipated sophomore project “Wild Ones,” which includes lead single “I’m to Blame,” later this year.

“This was a very natural organic [recording] process,” said Moore, calling from his Nashville home. “It’s just my life has changed so much that I knew I wasn’t going to write the same project. I hear a lot of records that kind of sound the same from one to the other, but my life has changed.

“This record was a lot more in the present where the first one was more nostalgic and in the past. This one is truly the essence of the intenseness and the craziness that my life has been. We’ve been living in a traveling circus for the last three years. So it’s the loneliness and also the exuberance that that brings. You feel it all over this record.”

Moore experienced that loneliness and exuberance last summer while opening sheds for Tim McGraw. Now, a year later, he’s back on the road supporting Dierks Bentley. The bill rolls through our area with a Saturday show at Blossom Music Center and June 20 date at First Niagara Pavilion.

Fans attending the show can expect to hear unreleased material such as the new album’s title track and the rowdy “Come and Get it.”

“‘Wild Ones’ is pretty much describing us as a band and what our life is like now,” Moore said. “We live in such a time … I think it’s always been that way, where the record business people are always trying to get you to kind of steer in a certain way. When a trend starts happening it gets really scary to not be involved in the trend, and people will encourage you to get in that trend.

“I’ve always been like, ‘[expletive] that, I’ll do it my way.’ And I’m going to do the kind of music that we want to do and that song is kind of embodying that.”

You don’t have to be a Music City insider to know that Moore is referring to the bro country movement dominating country radio of late. He stressed he’s tired of hearing the ubiquitous term for singing about drinking in the back of a pickup truck with a beautiful girl.

Moore added there are many artists eschewing the trend. More so, you won’t ever find him kowtowing to the pressure to follow a scene. Instead, he just wants to continue doing his thing and being true to the type of country artist he is.

“I’ve always been somebody who said I wanted to handle myself with integrity,” Moore said. “I wanted to always be honest in my music and I never wanted to carry myself as something I’m not.

“I always felt like if I was true to me, people would see that. So I’m just chugging along.”