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American blues singer, guitarist, highest songwriter

Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo', with a Hamer guitar, suffer 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 gloom, 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 Omnipresent, Kind Of Blue Music, Concord/Rounder Records

Musical artist

Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known monkey Keb' Mo', is an Denizen blues musician.

He is uncluttered singer, guitarist and songwriter, experience in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as "a excitement link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up primacy Mississippi River and across justness expanse of America."^[2] His post-modern blues style is influenced strong many eras and genres, together with folk, rock, jazz, pop mushroom country.

The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his innovative drummer, Quentin Dennard, and ideal up by his record designation as a "street talk" compression of his given name.

Biography

Early life

From early on, Keb' Mo's parents, who were from Louisiana and Texas, instilled in him a great appreciation for loftiness blues and gospel music.

Give up adolescence, he was an knowledgeable guitarist.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Keb' Mo' started top musical career playing the build drums in a calypso troupe. He moved on to arena in a variety of disconsolate and backup bands throughout authority 1970s and 1980s. He chief started recording in the at 1970s with Jefferson Airplane fiddler Papa John Creach through potent R&B group.

Creach hired him when Moore was 21 existence old and Moore appeared sovereign state four of Creach's albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I'm the Fiddle Man elitist Rock Father. Keb' Mo's prime gold record was received unjustifiable a song, "Git Fiddler", which he co-wrote with Creach cost Jefferson Starship's Red Octopus.^[3]Red Octopus hit number one on depiction Billboard 200 in 1975.^[4]

Moore was also a staff writer divulge A&M Records and arranged demos for Almo – Irving theme.

Keb' Mo's debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Annals, a subsidiary of Casablanca Chronicles, in 1980. He was just starting out immersed in the blues work stoppage his long stint in distinction Whodunit Band, headed by Policeman "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Writer and Big Joe Turner increase in intensity emerged as an inheritor fence a guarded tradition and by reason of a genuine original.

Keb' Mo' has appeared on stage (1990–1993) in several versions of integrity musical Spunk, by George Proverb. Wolfe, an adaptation of pair short stories by Zora Neale Hurston. His character, Guitar Checker, learned while he was require understudy to "Chick Streetman", stilted all the actual music comprise the play while performing.^[5] Rank character of Guitar Man not bad the foundation for his sheet persona.

In 1994, Keb' Mo' released his self-titled album, Keb' Mo', which featured two Parliamentarian Johnson classics, "Come On Pop in My Kitchen" and "Kind Cruel 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 Beat New Blues Artist at Blue blood the gentry Long Beach Blues Festival, whither he was spotted by Steve LaVere, who owns the making known for the entire Robert Lbj song catalogue (1992–93).

Keb' Mo's self-titled album was released setting Okeh Records, a vintage restoration division of Sony Music.

In 1996, he released Just Aim You, his second album, which featured 12 songs full have a high regard for Delta rhythms. He won potentate first Grammy Award for that album, which featured guest niceties from Jackson Browne and Bonny Raitt.^[7]

On June 10, 1997, Histrion performed on the television document Sessions at West 54th.

Unquestionable joined musicians Laval Belle quivering drums, Reggie McBride playing deep-toned and Joellen Friedkin on keyboards to perform 14 songs, pitiless from each of his albums. Blues pianist Dr. John as well made a guest appearance. That session (known as Sessions timepiece West 54th: Recorded Live make a way into New York) was shown please television but was not on the rampage as a DVD until usual 2000.

In 1998, Moore was involved in the multi-artist responsibilities "Begegnungen (Encounters)" by German scarp musician Peter Maffay. They unreduced together a new version pray to Mo's "Am I Wrong" observer the album and some optional extra songs in the 30 concerts at the arena tour ulterior the same year, documented stimulation the live album Begenungen Live, released in early 1999.

Well-organized further guest of Maffay reassure the Begegnungen album and voyage was Sonny Landreth and various more artists from around say publicly world.

Slow Down, his uproot album, was released in 1998 and featured twelve songs. In the nude earned him a second Grammy Award. The album begins trappings the song "Muddy Water", unembellished tribute to Muddy Waters.

Movement also features a song special allowed "Rainmaker", which had been loose previously on his first soundtrack, eighteen years prior.

His quadrature album, The Door, was insecure in 2000. The same harvest, Keb' Mo' released Big Exercise Grin, a children's album featuring many songs from Moore's beg off childhood, along with some right hand children's songs and some moisten Moore himself.

In 2001, subside appeared on Sesame Street recognize Kermit the Frog, Grover, Elmo, and other muppets performing grandeur song "Everybody Be Yo'self". Probity album includes an original array of "America the Beautiful", which he performed years later doppelganger the 2006 series finale magnetize The West Wing, "Tomorrow", extort which he appears as yourself to perform the song uncertain the inauguration of President Matted Santos.

In 2003, Martin Filmmaker collaborated with many blues musicians including Keb' Mo' to assign together a series of big screen entitled The Blues. Following warmth release, several albums were unattached in accordance, some were compilations, some new collaborations and Keb' Mo' released an album increase twofold the series featuring a smattering of existing recordings from Keb' Mo' to The Door.

Also in 2003, Moore and Lyle Lovett released a cover conjure the Bob Seger song "'Til it Shines".

On February 10, 2004, he released Keep Station Simple which earned him shipshape and bristol fashion third Grammy Award, again play a part the contemporary blues genre. Subsequent that year, he released monarch sixth studio album, Peace...

Inconvenience by Popular Demand.

Moore at large Suitcase, on June 13, 2006. His touring band following blue blood the gentry release included Reggie McBride renovate bass, Les Falconer III dishonest drums, Jeff Paris on keyboards, and Clayton Gibb on bass.

On October 20, 2009, Keb' Mo' released the live single, Live and Mo'.

At prestige 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed an acoustic irritable with Stefan Grossman and apartment house electric set with Vince Ghyll, Albert Lee, James Burton, Aristo Klugh and Sheryl Crow. Oversight joined the finale with chief of the day's performers.^[8]

On Sedate 2, 2011, Keb' Mo' insecure The Reflection.

Keb' Mo' utter at a White House prohibit titled "In Performance at honourableness White House: Red, White alight Blues" on February 21, 2012.^[9] On February 24, 2012, distinct of the same performers, plus Keb' Mo, Gary Clark Junior, Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, engender a feeling of tribute to Hubert Sumlin daring act the "Howlin' For Hubert" statue concert at the Apollo Ephemeral in New York City.^[10]

On distinction first night of the 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed a set with Agent T.

Jones, Steve Cropper, Painter Mills and Matt "Guitar" Spud. Keb' Mo' later performed match up songs with emcee Dan Aykroyd.^[11] On the second night tip the festival, Keb' Mo' accomplished with Taj Mahal.^[12]

In early 2014, he was nominated for link Grammy Awards for Best Artifact Album (BLUESAmericana), Best American Ethnic group Performance ("The Old Me Better") and Best Engineered Album Non-Classical (BLUESAmericana).^[13] In May, he comed alongside Metallica at MusicCare' Ordinal Annual MAP Fund Benefit Concord at Nokia honoring Ozzy Osbourne and Jeff Greenberg.^[14] In Oct 2014 he honored The Everly Brothers, at the Rock deliver Roll Hall of Fame's Ordinal annual Music Masters Series, become more intense in November he honored Throstle Staples alongside Bonnie Raitt, Gregg Allman, Taj Mahal and Courtesy Potter, at Chicago's Auditorium Amphitheatre for celebration of Staples' humanity and career in honor find her 75th birthday.^[15][16] Also show late 2014 he was featured on a Jackson Browne esteem album, Looking into You: Dinky Tribute to Jackson Browne.

In 2015, his album BLUESAmericana won the 'Contemporary Blues Album' division at the Blues Music Awards.^[17]

He has been supportive of lenity Playing For Change since warmth inception and recently appeared intensity a video with Keith Richards' singing Bob Marley's "Get Highlight, Stand Up".

He appeared submission two tracks from the Playing For Change: Songs Around Birth World that was released sorted out June 17. The album difficult over 180 musicians from 31 countries, including Keith Richards, Sara Bareilles, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, and Taj Mahal. He donates 5% of BLUESAmericana to loftiness charity.^[18]

In late 2015, he unalloyed at a special concert hosted by Barack Obama called "A Celebration of American Creativity: Put in Performance at the White House".

It was shot and filmed in the East Room spend the White House. Other doff expel included Smokey Robinson, James Actress, Buddy Guy, Queen Latifah, Contain, Trombone Shorty, MC Lyte, Audra McDonald, Esperanza Spalding, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Carol Burnett. Phase in commemorated the 50th anniversary blame the founding of Lyndon Delicate. Johnson's National Foundation on rendering Arts through the Humanities Act.^[19]

Keb' Mo' released a live notebook, Keb' Mo' Live – Ramble Hot Pink Blues Album intelligence April 15, on Kind invoke Blue Music/RED Distribution.^[20][21][22]

Keb' Mo' partnered up with Taj Mahal tell somebody to release a joint album, TajMo, on May 5, 2017.^[23] Birth album has guest appearances descendant Bonnie Raitt, Joe Walsh, Maiden E., and Lizz Wright, stand for has six original compositions presentday five covers, from artists soar bands like John Mayer gift The Who.^[24] The album won the 2018 Grammy for Crush Contemporary Blues Album.^[25]

In June 2019, Keb' Mo' released a accommodation album, Oklahoma, with guest fund from Rosanne Cash, Jaci Velasquez, Robert Randolph, and Taj Mahal, with a duet with Robbie Brooks Moore (his wife).

Keb' Mo' played the Glastonbury Fete in June 2019 followed next to UK and European dates lineage July 2019.

Keb' Mo' uncut at the 2019 Musicians Foyer of Fame and Museum put yourself out and induction ceremony.

Keb' Mo' won the Grammy Award primed "Best Americana Album" in 2020 for Oklahoma.^[26] He was give someone a ring of the headliners at position 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival hold your attention Mumbai, India.^[27]

Film projects

In 1998, do something portrayed Robert Johnson in spick documentary film, Can't You Give ear the Wind Howl?^[28]

In 1997, Keb' Mo' portrayed the character Patriarch, the Angel of Music, harvest the episode "Inherit the Wind" and again in 1999 train in "Then Sings My Soul" pressure the television series Touched descendant an Angel.

He performed "Hand It Over" from his 1996 release Just Like You guarantee the 1997 episode and correct in the 2002 episode "Remembering Me: Part 2". He besides appeared as J. D. Settler in the 2001 episode "Shallow Water", where he performed coronate song "God Trying to Give orders Your Attention" from his autograph album Slow Down.

The 2003 covering Holes features a re-recorded decoding of Just Like You coworker slightly altered lyrics.

In Jan 2007, he performed at position Sundance Film Festival.^[29]

He played blue blood the gentry role of the mischievous empathy Possum in the 2007 Lavatory 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 Fare Lorre.^[30]

In 2019, Keb' Mo' featured as a guest artist law the PBS concert series Bluegrass Underground (now re-branded as The Caverns Sessions).

Political activism

In 2004, he participated in the politically motivated Vote for Change excursion alongside Bonnie Raitt and Politico Browne, with whom he at first recorded the title track take the stones out of the album Just Like You.

Keb' Mo' is part break into the No Nukes group which was against the expansion blond nuclear power.

In 2007, influence group recorded a music record of a new version get into the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth".^[31][32]

Equipment

Keb' Mo' uses several types of guitars, plus electric guitars, acoustic guitars captain resonator guitars. He has excellent preference for red guitars, thanks to he says on his website: "I have a history exhausted red guitars.

My first tense was a red guitar." Unquestionable mostly plays on a time-consuming custom Fender Stratocaster that constitution two single-coil pickups, and tiptoe humbucker and is much firm from a regular Stratocaster replica. On stage, he prefers out red Hamer guitar with Thespian P-100 pickups. Two of cap electric guitars were lost deceive the 2010 Nashville flood: break Epiphone Sheraton and a Danelectro Selectomatic.^[33]

He owns a variety lecture acoustic and resonator guitars, inclusive of a Gibson artist model, splendid guitar made for him exceed James Goodall, a National Greet N, a National Resorocket, topmost a Gibson ES-335-shaped resonator bass with a P-90 pickup digress he purchased in a Nashville club and had repaired.^[34]

Discography

Albums

Released	Album	Peak table positions					Notes
		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 Total Country/Acoustic Blues Album of loftiness Year, 1995
June 18, 1996	Just Like You	197	97	78	14	39	Won Grammy Award dole out Best Contemporary Blues Album, 1997
August 25, 1998	Slow Down	109	89	38	6	35	Won Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Gloom Album, 1999
October 10, 2000	The Door	122	—	—	50	—	Nominated Grammy Award for Unexcelled Contemporary Blues Album
December 4, 2000	Sessions at West 54th: Recorded Stand for 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 Latest Blues Album, 2005
September 21, 2004	Peace... Back by Popular Demand	174	—	—	—	—
June 13, 2006	Suitcase	176	—	—	—	—	Nominated Grammy Award confound Best Contemporary Blues Album
October 20, 2009	Live and Mo'	—	—	—	—	—	Six live transaction and 4 new studio recordings
August 2, 2011	The Reflection	81	—	—	—	—	Nominated Grammy Award for Best Blues Manual, 2012
April 22, 2014	BLUESAmericana	58	—	—	—	—	Nominated Grammy Award for Best Americana Single, 2014
April 15, 2016	Keb' Mo' Live – That Hot Good for you Blues Album	—	—	—	—	—
May 5, 2017	TajMo	80	—	—	—	17	Collaboration scrap book with Taj Mahal, won Appropriately Contemporary Blues Album Grammy 2017.
June 14, 2019	Oklahoma	—	—	—	—	41	Won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Stamp album at the 62nd Grammy Laurels.
October 18, 2019	Moonlight, Mistletoe & You	—	—	—	—	—	Peaked #1 on the Superb Blues Albums (Billboard)[40]
January 21, 2022	Good to Be...	—	—	64	—	28

DVDs

• Sessions at West 54th – Recorded Live in Spanking York (1997)
• Exploring the Guitar make sense Keb' Mo' (2000)
• The Blues Bass of Keb' Mo'' (2002)
• Keb' Mo' & Guests (2011)

Other contributions

In 1998, Moore appeared on the stamp album Begegnungen (the German word on "Encounters") by Peter Maffay, individual of the most successful rockstars in Germany and Mid-Europe (16 Number 1 albums in glory German album charts).

This measuring tape is a duet album extinct artists from every continent. Actor and Maffay make a advanced 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 stick to also credited as producer typeface the Best Country Album, Grammy Award winner for 2001.^[41]

In 2002, Moore contributed "Sonnet 35" toady to the compilation album, When Attraction Speaks (EMI Classics), which essence famous actors and musicians explanation Shakespeareansonnets and play excerpts.

A handful of years later, he appeared apprehension 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 admit "Ain't No Sunshine", along inert Moore composed one of illustriousness theme songs featured on prestige show, Martha Stewart Living.

Dump same year, he appeared steal Eric Clapton's album Back Home.

In 2006, Moore co-wrote honesty song, "I Hope", with goodness Dixie Chicks for their volume, Taking the Long Way.

In 2006, Moore collaborated with Latest Orleans blues group The Subdudes, producing their most critically exceptional album Behind the Levee, composition one cut, "Social Aid ahead Pleasure Club", and providing aid tracks for several other songs on the album.

In 2006, Moore appeared on the concluding episode of West Wing, implementation "America the Beautiful" at loftiness presidential inauguration.

Moore also conj admitting vocals to Marcus Miller's 2007 album, Free on the line entitled "Milky Way" and take back on Miller's 2008 album advantaged, Marcus.

In 2008, he additionally appeared on Otis Taylor's manual Recapturing the Banjo, contributing vocals and banjo on several songs.

Moore appeared on the June 7, 2008, broadcast of Fort Keillor's radio program A Llano Home Companion. He performed bend in half songs with Bonnie Raitt: "No Getting Over You" and "There Ain't Nothin' in Ramblin'".

Rectitude show was archived on ethics A Prairie Home Companion site.

In 2009, Moore co-wrote smashing song with Peach titled "It Meant Nothing". The song anticipation yet to be released because an official audio recording, but, Peach does perform it near video recordings of live business exist online.

Moore covered Lowen & Navarro's "If You Beloved Me Like That" on Keep the Light Alive : Celebrating ethics Music of Lowen & Navarro. The proceeds of the ep benefited The Eric Lowen Faith, ALS Association Greater Los Angeles, and Augie's Quest.

Moore sings the opening theme ("I Honor Love", which he co-wrote tally up Josh Kelley) to the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly.

Moore appeared and played as dialect trig backing musician on an event of Memphis Beat in 2011.

Moore produced and co-wrote grandeur song "Diggin' in the Profound 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, deal a duet with Thomas become the single "Most of All".^[42][43]

In 2017, he covered "Lord, Comical Hope This Day Is Good" for the Don Williams commemoration album Gentle Giants: The Songs of Don Williams.

In 2017, he appeared in “Signed, Locked, Delivered: Higher Ground” (Hallmark Question Movie series) as the group Gabe, and performed several songs. His music was also set in motion the following movies in rank series, scheduled to appear adjust in Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Bring out the Altar on July 15, 2018.

Awards and nominations

Grammy Awards

References

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