After coming at country fans and radio with two boisterous, fun-loving songs, The Valory Music Company's Justin Moore returns to airwaves in 2009 with "Small Town USA." And from just listening to the track, this is the kind of country song fans have grown to love to hear on country radio, even if it is one of the four or five most overused themes of the last few years, as Moore sings quite capably and the song's production is actually quite country with the cascading steel guitars and twangy guitar fills.

Still, despite all of that I cannot help but wonder if Moore isn’t better than the songs he's released to radio. Sure, the silly "Back That Thing Up" gave him his first Top 40 single and this one’s likely to do better than that, but to the fan of traditional country music this young man with big talent certainly seems like he could give us more. While "Small Town USA" does prove there's more to Justin Moore than superficial silly ditties, I really hope he can come out with a knock-em-dead, traditional-based country song, the kind of song that is lurking somewhere behind the songs we've heard from him so far.