Kip Moore has that single out “Hey Pretty Girl” and I like that song – its very singer-songwriter-ish, it has a very backroads Americana style. And honestly, I like “Hey Pretty Girl” because it reminds me of a non-mainstream country musician – singer-songwriter Jason Isbell. Take a look and listen:
In fact, Jason Isbell’s sound is what mainstream “country” acts want to sound like. The following is an article where Isbell (correctly) claims that Dierks Bentley’s song “Home” sounded just like one of his own songs: