Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – TajMo (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:24 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
TajMo marks a timely convergence of the talents of two unique American artists who’ve already built iconoclastic individual legacies that have extended and expanded blues traditions into adventurous new territory. The collaboration brings out the best in both artists, with the pair merging their distinctive voices, personalities and guitar styles to create vibrant, immediate music that’s firmly rooted in tradition yet ruled by a playful sense of adventure. The album features guest appearances by Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Lizz Wright and Bonnie Raitt, who lends her voice to a distinctive cover of John Mayer’s anthemic ‘Waiting on the World to Change’.
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Keb’ Mo’ – Oklahoma (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 40:37 minutes | 733 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Faithful. 25 years since his career began, Kevin Roosevelt Moore – a.k.a Keb’ Mo – has always remained deeply faithful to the blues. A righteous path which has never kept him from adding his own stone to a building which already has many, many builders. Oklahoma in that sense is an original project – a stone of his own, if you will. There are no links between him, his story and that state which borders Colorado and Kansas to the north, Missouri and Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west and Texas to the south. In 2013, Keb’ Mo, along with Kenny Wayne Shepherd, travelled there for a disaster relief fund concert, following a deadly tornado. Friendships were born, along with a need to create something which would be anchored to that region. Keb’ Mo’s blues is intertwined with country, native American and folk music; Robert Randolph and his impressionistic lap steel playing came along, with Rosanne Cash, as well as Taj Mahal – with whom he wrote the album TajMo in 2017. True to himself, his lyrics scrutinize America’s internalized suffering as well our era’s new set of problems.
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Keb’ Mo’ – Moonlight, Mistletoe & You (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 35:28 minutes | 751 MB | Genre: Blues, Soul, Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
Following the release of the thought-provoking Oklahoma, a record that brought worldly issues to the forefront, Keb’ Mo’ returns to lift spirits with a heartfelt feel-good Christmas album Moonlight, Mistletoe & You, due for release on 18 October via Snakefarm Records (UK).
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Keb’ Mo’ – Keb’ Mo’ (1994/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:57 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Okeh – Epic
Keb’ Mo’s self-titled debut is an edgy, ambitious collection of gritty country blues. Keb’ Mo’ pushes into new directions, trying to incorporate some of the sensibilites of the slacker revolution without losing touch of the tradition that makes the blues the breathing, vital art form it is. His attempts aren’t always successful, but his gutsy guitar playing and impassioned vocals, as well as his surprisingly accomplished songwriting, make Keb’ Mo’ a debut to cherish.
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Keb’ Mo’ – The Door (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:22 minutes | 559 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – 550 Music – Okeh
The Door is a studio album by Delta blues artist Keb’ Mo’, released in 2000.
The album peaked at No. 122 on the Billboard 200.[7] It was nominated for a Grammy, for “Best Contemporary Blues Album”.
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Keb’ Mo’ – Good To Be… (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:56 minutes | 891 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rounder
The blues is the root of (almost) all popular American music. Active since the 70s (first under his baptismal name Kevin Moore, then under the pseudonym of Keb’ Mo’ from the 90s), the musician Keb’ Mo’ has widely explored the blues roots and even made several times around the trunk. After fifteen albums, a handful of Grammys and deserved international recognition, he decided with Good To Be… to rest a little under the branches: soul, folk, pop. The first track is called Good To Be (Home Again) and the last Quiet Moments. Between the two, we suspect, this album will not be a summit of experimental radical music. More like a sweet cocoon of feelgood songs, the musical equivalent of a bath or hot chocolate (or even a bathtub full of hot chocolate). The tone of the record is set by its successful cover of Bill Withers’ hit Lean On Me. Here, we will hear orchestrations of strings, a soft organ, choirs, tempered guitars and the always young and soulful voice of Keb’ Mo’. The songs composed by him are not as memorable as the melody of Lean On Me, but all are elegant, round the corners and invite relaxation, lightness or romance. Ideal to listen to on the terrace of a café in the spring, this album confirms that it is still and always in the old pots that the best soups are made. We would have just liked a little more salt on a few pieces that flirt with variety…
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Keb’ Mo’ – The Door (2000)
PS3 Rip | ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 49:06 minutes | Scans included | 2,02 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,03 GB
Singer-guitarist Kevin Moore, known by his slangy abbreviation Keb’ Mo’, has already enjoyed commercial success. He’s cut radio hits like “I Was Wrong,” toured with Bonnie Raitt, and won Grammys for his last two albums. Yet this time, Moore’s truly nailed his blues-pop ambitions with a warm mix of sonics and songcraft. The Door wraps spare arrangements around Moore’s bone-deep slide guitar and the slow-granite foundation of drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Reggie McBride. They catch the spirit of the music’s simple country roots, but spin savvy moves like updating Elmore James’s “It Hurts Me Too” with a hip-hop groove that flies. Moore has also penned wise, sweetly emotional lyrics. He weaves themes like class-consciousness (the star-crossed love ode “Anyway”) and poverty of the spirit (“Change”) into heart-tugging ballads colored by the chocolate-y Mississippi moan of his voice. Add in flourishes of electric jazz guitar and some nasty rock tones, and this tallies up as his most ambitious, balanced album.
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Keb’ Mo’ – Just Like You (1996) [Reissue 2002]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST/DSD64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 45:58 minutes | Scans included | 4,11 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | 46:15 mins | Scans included | 1,01 GB
Keb’ Mo’s 1995 Grammy-winning eponymous debut firmly lodged the Los Angeles-born singer-guitarist in the contemporary blues pantheon. His sophomore effort, Just Like You, is slick in comparison to the virtuosic, bare-bones Keb’ Mo’, but it’s nevertheless an irresistible and accomplished album. While songs such as “Perpetual Blues Machine” and “You Can Love Yourself” are classic Mo’, with their canny lyrics and facile slide and acoustic guitar licks, the sapfest “Just Like You” (with guests Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne) and the clichéd “The Action” are hard to stomach. Toward the end of the disc, however, the gospel-laced “Hand It Over” and folksy “Momma, Where’s My Daddy” restore the faith, displaying once again Mo’s marvelous talent for wrenching the heartstrings with simply his voice and soulful steel-guitar manipulations.
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