Keb` Mo` - Keb` Mo`

Artist:

Keb` Mo`

Description:

Personnel: Keb` Mo` (vocals, guitar, harmonica, banjo); Tommy Eyre (keyboards); James "Hutch" Hutchinson (bass); Laval Belle, Quentin Dennard, (drums); Tony Draunagel (percussion).
Recorded at Red Zone Studios, Burbank, California and Devonshire Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California.
The first solo release by contemporary blues-based artist Keb Mo` mixes a reverence for traditional country blues with more streamlined elements of commercial pop. Despite a convincing "down-home" approach of gravel-textured vocals and superior slide work and finger-picking skills, Keb Mo` avoids the pose of a hard line revivalist. Instead, he chooses to employ his fluency in the Delta tradition as a palette on which to blend a connoisseur`s sampling of various musical genres. Country, funk, swing, and late 20th-Century folk balladry (Traci Chapman, James Taylor and Bob Dylan) all manage to make their way into the mix for a seamless blend of roots and radio friendliness.
Keyboards, bass and drums (in addition to Keb Mo`s contributions on guitar, harmonica and banjo) flesh out breezy soul-inflected pop such as "She Just Wants To Dance" and the island flavored "Tell Everybody I Know." Though gears continue to shift, from organ-drenched gospel to hillbilly lite, Keb Mo` brings things back to the source with inventive homages to the blues altar, such as in his re-casting of two Robert Johnson songs. Though blues purists may find Mo`s genre blending somewhat disconcerting, others will find much to appreciate in this accessible, enjoyable, finely honed music.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Every Morning
2. Tell Everybody I Know
3. Love Blues
4. Victims of Comfort
5. Angelina
6. Anybody Seen My Girl
7. She Just Wants to Dance
8. Am I Wrong
9. Come on in My Kitchen
10. Dirty Low Down and Bad
11. Don`t Try to Explain
12. Kindhearted Woman Blues
13. City Boy

Album Information

Release Date:

06/07/1994

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Blues

Subgenre:

Contemporary Blues

Label:

Okeh Records

Producer:

John Porter

Catalog Number:

57863

Original Release Year:

1994

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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