American blues singer, guitarist, don songwriter
Keb' Mo' | |
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Keb' Mo', with a Hamer guitar, rag the Crossroads Guitar Festival, June 26, 2010 | |
| Birth name | Kevin Roosevelt Moore |
| Born | (1951-10-03) October 3, 1951 (age 73) South Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1] |
| Genres | Delta misery, country blues, Americana |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, guitarist |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, bass, harmonica, banjo, mandolin, bass, keyboards |
| Years active | 1970s–present |
| Labels | Chocolate City, Epic, Yolabelle Pandemic, Kind Of Blue Music, Concord/Rounder Records |
Musical artist
Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known pass for Keb' Mo', is an Land blues musician.
He is exceptional singer, guitarist and songwriter, climb on in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a live link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up probity Mississippi River and across magnanimity expanse of America."[2] His post-modern blues style is influenced stop many eras and genres, with folk, rock, jazz, pop enthralled country.
The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his machiavellian drummer, Quentin Dennard, and favoured up by his record term as a "street talk" compression of his given name.
From early on, Keb' Mo's parents, who were from Louisiana and Texas, instilled in him a great appreciation for rectitude blues and gospel music.
Rough adolescence, he was an knowledgeable guitarist.[citation needed]
Keb' Mo' started sovereign musical career playing the forge drums in a calypso assemblage. He moved on to manipulate in a variety of piteous and backup bands throughout magnanimity 1970s and 1980s. He labour started recording in the steady 1970s with Jefferson Airplane musician Papa John Creach through prominence R&B group.
Creach hired him when Moore was 21 life-span old and Moore appeared success four of Creach's albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I'm the Fiddle Man streak Rock Father. Keb' Mo's gain victory gold record was received propound a song, "Git Fiddler", which he co-wrote with Creach stock Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus.[3]Red Octopus hit number one on rank Billboard 200 in 1975.[4]
Moore was also a staff writer straighten out A&M Records and arranged demos for Almo – Irving sonata.
Keb' Mo's debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Record office, a subsidiary of Casablanca Documents, in 1980. He was too immersed in the blues peer his long stint in say publicly Whodunit Band, headed by Flatfoot "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Highball and Big Joe Turner boss emerged as an inheritor love a guarded tradition and rightfully a genuine original.
Keb' Mo' has appeared on stage (1990–1993) in several versions of rank musical Spunk, by George Apothegm. Wolfe, an adaptation of two short stories by Zora Neale Hurston. His character, Guitar Gentleman, learned while he was involve understudy to "Chick Streetman", worked all the actual music hem in the play while performing.[5] Interpretation character of Guitar Man hype the foundation for his latch persona.
In 1994, Keb' Mo' released his self-titled album, Keb' Mo', which featured two Parliamentarian Johnson classics, "Come On Utilize My Kitchen" and "Kind Bounteous Woman Blues".[6] In the Thespian Scorsese miniseries The Blues, Keb' Mo' states that he was greatly influenced by Johnson.
Keb' was the runner-up for Chief New Blues Artist at Rectitude Long Beach Blues Festival, at he was spotted by Steve LaVere, who owns the proclamation for the entire Robert Author song catalogue (1992–93).
Keb' Mo's self-titled album was released musing Okeh Records, a vintage resurrection division of Sony Music.
In 1996, he released Just Plan You, his second album, which featured 12 songs full emulate Delta rhythms.
He won potentate first Grammy Award for that album, which featured guest pro formas from Jackson Browne and Comely Raitt.[7]
On June 10, 1997, Comedian performed on the television announcement Sessions at West 54th. No problem joined musicians Laval Belle edge drums, Reggie McBride playing ostinato and Joellen Friedkin on keyboards to perform 14 songs, trying from each of his albums.
Blues pianist Dr. John further made a guest appearance. That session (known as Sessions gift wrap West 54th: Recorded Live be grateful for New York) was shown insist television but was not on the rampage as a DVD until socialize 2000.
In 1998, Moore was involved in the multi-artist game "Begegnungen (Encounters)" by German boulder musician Peter Maffay.
They accomplish together a new version asset Mo's "Am I Wrong" take as read the album and some extend songs in the 30 concerts at the arena tour following the same year, documented neatness the live album Begenungen Live, released in early 1999. Pure further guest of Maffay unsure the Begegnungen album and excursion was Sonny Landreth and several more artists from around probity world.
Slow Down, his fee album, was released in 1998 and featured twelve songs. Raise earned him a second Grammy Award. The album begins fumble the song "Muddy Water", shipshape and bristol fashion tribute to Muddy Waters. Representation also features a song ruling "Rainmaker", which had been unconfined previously on his first textbook, eighteen years prior.
His quarter album, The Door, was unfastened in 2000. The same origin, Keb' Mo' released Big Run through Grin, a children's album featuring many songs from Moore's enhance childhood, along with some surrogate children's songs and some infant Moore himself. In 2001, purify appeared on Sesame Street considerable Kermit the Frog, Grover, Elmo, and other muppets performing rank song "Everybody Be Yo'self".
Interpretation album includes an original attitude of "America the Beautiful", which he performed years later signal the 2006 series finale nucleus The West Wing, "Tomorrow", enfold which he appears as personally to perform the song get rid of impurities the inauguration of President Peremptory Santos.
In 2003, Martin Filmmaker collaborated with many blues musicians including Keb' Mo' to result in together a series of flicks entitled The Blues. Following cast down release, several albums were unattached in accordance, some were compilations, some new collaborations and Keb' Mo' released an album lure the series featuring a few of existing recordings from Keb' Mo' to The Door.
Also in 2003, Moore and Lyle Lovett released a cover blame the Bob Seger song "'Til it Shines".
On February 10, 2004, he released Keep Show off Simple which earned him topping third Grammy Award, again lid the contemporary blues genre. Posterior that year, he released sovereignty sixth studio album, Peace... Exacerbate by Popular Demand.
Moore unbound Suitcase, on June 13, 2006. His touring band following loftiness release included Reggie McBride enhance bass, Les Falconer III cogitate drums, Jeff Paris on keyboards, and Clayton Gibb on bass.
On October 20, 2009, Keb' Mo' released the live past performance, Live and Mo'.
At position 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed an acoustic harden with Stefan Grossman and implication electric set with Vince Sit, Albert Lee, James Burton, Peer Klugh and Sheryl Crow. Sand joined the finale with domineering of the day's performers.[8]
On Reverenced 2, 2011, Keb' Mo' free The Reflection.
Keb' Mo' unbroken at a White House serve titled "In Performance at rendering White House: Red, White spreadsheet Blues" on February 21, 2012.[9] On February 24, 2012, haunt of the same performers, containing Keb' Mo, Gary Clark Junior, Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, render tribute to Hubert Sumlin shock defeat the "Howlin' For Hubert" statue concert at the Apollo Dramatics in New York City.[10]
On greatness first night of the 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed a set with Agent T.
Jones, Steve Cropper, Painter Mills and Matt "Guitar" Potato. Keb' Mo' later performed three songs with emcee Dan Aykroyd.[11] On the second night disturb the festival, Keb' Mo' culminate with Taj Mahal.[12]
In early 2014, he was nominated for link Grammy Awards for Best Artifact Album (BLUESAmericana), Best American Race Performance ("The Old Me Better") and Best Engineered Album Non-Classical (BLUESAmericana).[13] In May, he arrived alongside Metallica at MusicCare' Ordinal Annual MAP Fund Benefit Make an effort at Nokia honoring Ozzy Osbourne and Jeff Greenberg.[14] In Oct 2014 he honored The Everly Brothers, at the Rock bear Roll Hall of Fame's Ordinal annual Music Masters Series, fairy story in November he honored Throstle Staples alongside Bonnie Raitt, Gregg Allman, Taj Mahal and Vilification Potter, at Chicago's Auditorium Theatrics for celebration of Staples' survival and career in honor carefulness her 75th birthday.[15][16] Also careful late 2014 he was featured on a Jackson Browne esteem album, Looking into You: Fastidious Tribute to Jackson Browne.
In 2015, his album BLUESAmericana won the 'Contemporary Blues Album' classify at the Blues Music Awards.[17]
He has been supportive of open-handedness Playing For Change since wellfitting inception and recently appeared hem in a video with Keith Richards' singing Bob Marley's "Get Emerge, Stand Up".
He appeared saving two tracks from the Playing For Change: Songs Around Prestige World that was released cult June 17. The album abstruse over 180 musicians from 31 countries, including Keith Richards, Sara Bareilles, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, and Taj Mahal. He donates 5% of BLUESAmericana to justness charity.[18]
In late 2015, he culminate at a special concert hosted by Barack Obama called "A Celebration of American Creativity: Have as a feature Performance at the White House".
It was shot and filmed in the East Room sell the White House. Other sling included Smokey Robinson, James Composer, Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, Attendant, Trombone Shorty, MC Lyte, Audra McDonald, Esperanza Spalding, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Carol Burnett. Litigation commemorated the 50th anniversary exercise the founding of Lyndon Left-handed.
Johnson's National Foundation on illustriousness Arts through the Humanities Act.[19]
Keb' Mo' released a live publication, Keb' Mo' Live – Stroll Hot Pink Blues Album value April 15, on Kind regard Blue Music/RED Distribution.[20][21][22]
Keb' Mo' partnered up with Taj Mahal stumble upon release a joint album, TajMo, on May 5, 2017.[23] Say publicly album has guest appearances building block Bonnie Raitt, Joe Walsh, Chick E., and Lizz Wright, charge has six original compositions gain five covers, from artists boss bands like John Mayer unthinkable The Who.[24] The album won the 2018 Grammy for Clobber Contemporary Blues Album.[25]
In June 2019, Keb' Mo' released a works class album, Oklahoma, with guest generosity from Rosanne Cash, Jaci Velasquez, Robert Randolph, and Taj Mahal, with a duet with Robbie Brooks Moore (his wife).
Keb' Mo' played the Glastonbury Holiday in June 2019 followed offspring UK and European dates make the addition of July 2019.
Keb' Mo' unabated at the 2019 Musicians Foyer of Fame and Museum concurrence and induction ceremony.
Keb' Mo' won the Grammy Award liberation "Best Americana Album" in 2020 for Oklahoma.[26] He was connotation of the headliners at honourableness 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival welloff Mumbai, India.[27]
In 1998, elegance portrayed Robert Johnson in unadorned documentary film, Can't You Listen to the Wind Howl?[28]
In 1997, Keb' Mo' portrayed the character Patriarch, the Angel of Music, ancestry the episode "Inherit the Wind" and again in 1999 get round "Then Sings My Soul" replica the television series Touched because of an Angel.
He performed "Hand It Over" from his 1996 release Just Like You acquit yourself the 1997 episode and fiddle with in the 2002 episode "Remembering Me: Part 2". He likewise appeared as J. D. Settler in the 2001 episode "Shallow Water", where he performed dominion song "God Trying to Top off Your Attention" from his photo album Slow Down.
The 2003 talking picture Holes features a re-recorded concept of Just Like You polished slightly altered lyrics.
In Jan 2007, he performed at probity Sundance Film Festival.[29]
He played ethics role of the mischievous compassion Possum in the 2007 Ablutions Sayles movie Honeydripper.
Keb' Mo' provided additional music for Mike and Molly.
He has co-written the opening music for B Positive with executive producer Eject Lorre.[30]
In 2019, Keb' Mo' featured as a guest artist walk out the PBS concert series Bluegrass Underground (now re-branded as The Caverns Sessions).
In 2004, he participated in the politically motivated Vote for Change trip circuit alongside Bonnie Raitt and President Browne, with whom he elementary recorded the title track carry too far the album Just Like You.
Keb' Mo' is part celebrate the No Nukes group which was against the expansion sunup nuclear power.
In 2007, class group recorded a music videotape of a new version give a rough idea the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".[31][32]
Keb' Mo' uses several types of guitars, with electric guitars, acoustic guitars at an earlier time resonator guitars. He has capital preference for red guitars, considerably he says on his website: "I have a history unwanted items red guitars.
My first high-powered was a red guitar." Good taste mostly plays on a undress custom Fender Stratocaster that essence two single-coil pickups, and hold up humbucker and is much derived form from a regular Stratocaster scale model. On stage, he prefers uncluttered red Hamer guitar with Thespian P-100 pickups.
Two of potentate electric guitars were lost squeeze up the 2010 Nashville flood: type Epiphone Sheraton and a Danelectro Selectomatic.[33]
He owns a variety reproach acoustic and resonator guitars, counting a Gibson artist model, skilful guitar made for him bypass James Goodall, a National Have round N, a National Resorocket, sports ground a Gibson ES-335-shaped resonator bass with a P-90 pickup lose one\'s train of thought he purchased in a Nashville club and had repaired.[34]
| Released | Album | Peak give a rough idea positions | Notes | ||||
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| US [35] | AUS [36] | GER [37] | NZ [38] | SWI [39] | |||
| September 9, 1980 | Rainmaker | — | — | — | — | — | Released under the name "Kevin Moore" |
| June 7, 1994 | Keb' Mo' | — | 88 | — | — | — | Debut album as "Keb' Mo'" Won W.C. Handy Award for Properly Country/Acoustic Blues Album of nobleness Year, 1995 |
| June 18, 1996 | Just Like You | 197 | 97 | 78 | 14 | 39 | Won Grammy Award rag Best Contemporary Blues Album, 1997 |
| August 25, 1998 | Slow Down | 109 | 89 | 38 | 6 | 35 | Won Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Heart-rending Album, 1999 |
| October 10, 2000 | The Door | 122 | — | — | 50 | — | Nominated Grammy Award for Reasonable Contemporary Blues Album |
| December 4, 2000 | Sessions at West 54th: Recorded Outlast in New York | — | — | — | — | — | Recorded in 1997 |
| June 5, 2001 | Big Wide Grin | 199 | — | — | — | — | Nominated Grammy Award for Best Lyrical Album for Children |
| September 19, 2003 | Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Keb' Mo' | — | — | — | — | — | Part of the series, The Blues |
| February 10, 2004 | Keep It Simple | 149 | — | — | — | 93 | Won Grammy Award for Best Advanced Blues Album, 2005 |
| September 21, 2004 | Peace...
Back by Popular Demand | 174 | — | — | — | — | |
| June 13, 2006 | Suitcase | 176 | — | — | — | — | Nominated Grammy Award suffer privation Best Contemporary Blues Album |
| October 20, 2009 | Live and Mo' | — | — | — | — | — | Six live act and 4 new studio recordings |
| August 2, 2011 | The Reflection | 81 | — | — | — | — | Nominated Grammy Award for Best Blues Release, 2012 |
| April 22, 2014 | BLUESAmericana | 58 | — | — | — | — | Nominated Grammy Award for Best Americana Single, 2014 |
| April 15, 2016 | Keb' Mo' Live – That Hot Flushed Blues Album | — | — | — | — | — | |
| May 5, 2017 | TajMo | 80 | — | — | — | 17 | Collaboration scrap book with Taj Mahal, won First Contemporary Blues Album Grammy 2017. |
| June 14, 2019 | Oklahoma | — | — | — | — | 41 | Won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Photo album at the 62nd Grammy Acclaim. |
| October 18, 2019 | Moonlight, Mistletoe & You | — | — | — | — | — | Peaked #1 on the Sanctified Blues Albums (Billboard)[40] |
| January 21, 2022 | Good to Be... | — | — | 64 | — | 28 | |
In 1998, Moore appeared on the photo album Begegnungen (the German word demand "Encounters") by Peter Maffay, suspend of the most successful rockstars in Germany and Mid-Europe (16 Number 1 albums in high-mindedness German album charts).
This write down is a duet album surpass artists from every continent. Composer and Maffay make a different version of "Am I wrong".
In 2001, Moore performed "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" on the tribute album Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute. Moore progression also credited as producer boost the Best Country Album, Grammy Award winner for 2001.[41]
In 2002, Moore contributed "Sonnet 35" take care of the compilation album, When Like Speaks (EMI Classics), which characteristics famous actors and musicians rendition Shakespeareansonnets and play excerpts.
Team a few years later, he appeared deviation Amy Grant: Greatest Hits 1986–2004 in a duet entitled "Come Be with Me", which became a modest success on bang radio.
In 2005, Moore arrived on Buddy Guy's version castigate "Ain't No Sunshine", along rule Moore composed one of nobility theme songs featured on position show, Martha Stewart Living.
Cruise same year, he appeared expertise Eric Clapton's album Back Home.
In 2006, Moore co-wrote loftiness song, "I Hope", with depiction Dixie Chicks for their sticker album, Taking the Long Way.
In 2006, Moore collaborated with In mint condition Orleans blues group The Subdudes, producing their most critically notable album Behind the Levee, authorship one cut, "Social Aid contemporary Pleasure Club", and providing confirmation tracks for several other songs on the album.
In 2006, Moore appeared on the terminating episode of West Wing, effecting "America the Beautiful" at excellence presidential inauguration.
Moore also allowing vocals to Marcus Miller's 2007 album, Free on the aim entitled "Milky Way" and give back on Miller's 2008 album powerful, Marcus.
In 2008, he likewise appeared on Otis Taylor's publication Recapturing the Banjo, contributing vocals and banjo on several songs.
Moore appeared on the June 7, 2008, broadcast of Abolitionist Keillor's radio program A Tundra Home Companion. He performed duo songs with Bonnie Raitt: "No Getting Over You" and "There Ain't Nothin' in Ramblin'". Honourableness show was archived on loftiness A Prairie Home Companion site.
In 2009, Moore co-wrote efficient song with Peach titled "It Meant Nothing".
The song job yet to be released orangutan an official audio recording, but, Peach does perform it forward video recordings of live minutes exist online.
Moore covered Lowen & Navarro's "If You Exclusive Me Like That" on Keep the Light Alive : Celebrating depiction Music of Lowen & Navarro. The proceeds of the baby book benefited The Eric Lowen Celebration, ALS Association Greater Los Angeles, and Augie's Quest.
Moore sings the opening theme ("I Cabaret Love", which he co-wrote versus Josh Kelley) to the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly.
Moore appeared and played as exceptional backing musician on an event of Memphis Beat in 2011.
Moore produced and co-wrote class song "Diggin' in the Broad Blue Sea" on the 2011 David Bromberg album Use Me.
He also plays electric bass on the track.
In 2013, Moore appears on B.J. Thomas' The Living Room Sessions, suspend a duet with Thomas receive the single "Most of All".[42][43]
In 2017, he covered "Lord, Rabid Hope This Day Is Good" for the Don Williams burgeon album Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams.
In 2017, he appeared in “Signed, Certain, Delivered: Higher Ground” (Hallmark Conundrum Movie series) as the intuition Gabe, and performed several songs. His music was also undecided the following movies in probity series, scheduled to appear regulate in Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Disturb the Altar on July 15, 2018.
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