Monday, August 24, 2009

Keb' Mo' amazing blues guitarist

Keb' Mo' (born October 3, 1951 in South Central Los Angeles, California as Kevin Moore) is an American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

Keb' Mo' started his musical career playing the steel drums and upright bass in a calypso band. He moved on to play in a variety of blues and backup bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach through an R&B group. Creach hired him when Moore was just twenty-one years old; Moore appeared on four of Creach's albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I'm the Fiddle Man and Rock Father.

Around that time Moore was also a staff writer for A&M Records, and arranged demos for Almo - Irving music. Keb' Mo's early debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Records, a subsidiary of Casablanca Records, in 1980. He was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner and emerged as an inheritor of a guarded tradition and as a genuine original.

It Hurts Me Too



Dangerous Mood



In 1998 he portrayed Robert Johnson in a documentary film, Can't You Hear the Wind Howl?.

That's Not Love



Hand It Over



Keb Mo & Corey Harris - Sweet Home Chicago



Perpetual Blues Machine

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