Song of the Day: “Mary Was The Marrying Kind” by Kip Moore
Just so we’re clear, though your first introduction to Kip Moore was probably “Something ‘Bout A Truck,” you’d be remiss to not give a listen or three to Moore’s first single, “Mary Was The Marrying Kind.” “Mary,” written by Moore, Dan Couch, and Scott Stepakoff, is an ode to a girl.
“Dan and I wrote most of the record together,” Moore told Taste of Country in 2011. “All three of us write together sometimes. I had that riff [of the song] going on. We probably wrote four or five different songs before we wrote the actual ‘Mary’ song around that riff. Every time we would start writing, we’d be like, ‘This isn’t it. That’s not it.’ We’d get a verse or two into it, and then we would start over.”
“By the end of the day, we were about to leave, and I started talking about a girl,” Moore continues. “I had randomly just gone home, and I ran into a girl that I hadn’t seen in probably five or six years since high school. In high school, nobody really paid attention to her because she was real tall and shy and meek and hadn’t grown into her confidence yet. She just kind of slipped through the cracks. I happened to bump into her at a party, and she was gorgeous, funny, charming and witty. Everybody at the party wanted to kick themselves for not noticing these things earlier.”
“Of course [Dan and Scott] had similar stories of girls they’d run into, and that’s how the song started,” notes Moore. “All the girls in the song … everybody’s had those girls in their hometowns. They match up with people in my hometown that I grew up with or in college and that kind of thing.”
Moore is a phenomenon live – check out our reviews of his performances on the Up in Smoke Tour with Charlie Worsham and Sam Hunt and his Valentines’ Day performance in Wisconsin this year, and take a listen to his newest single, “I’m To Blame.”