Keb' Mo'-Just like You

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Keb' Mo' (born Kevin Moore, October 3, 1951) is a a three-time American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as, "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America". His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz and pop.

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.

In 1994, Keb' Mo' released his self-titled debut album, Keb' Mo', which featured two Robert Johnson covers, "Come On In My Kitchen" and "Kind Hearted Woman Blues". In the Martin Scorsese miniseries The Blues, Keb' Mo' states that he was greatly influenced by Johnson.

In 1996, he released Just Like You, his second album, which featured twelve songs full of Delta rhythms. He won his first Grammy Award for this album, which featured guest appearances from Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt... +INFO

Just like You is the second album by Delta blues artist Keb' Mo'. It features guest artists Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt both on the title track "Just Like You." Unlike the first album, Just Like You features a more Blues-pop to Blues-rock feel and more of its tracks feature a full band. In 1997, Just Like You won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

1. "That's Not Love" - 4:08 (Georgina Graper & Moore)
2. "Perpetual Blues Machine" - 3:16 (Graper & Moore)
3. "More Than One Way Home" - 4:53 (John Lewis Parker & Moore)
4. "I'm on Your Side" - 3:40
5. "Just like You" - 3:26 (Parker & Moore)
6. "You Can Love Yourself" - 2:33
7. "Dangerous Mood" - 4:59 (Candy Parton & Moore)
8. "The Action" - 3:59
9. "Hand It Over" - 2:55
10. "Standin' at the Station" - 3:13 (Phil Ramocon & Moore)
11. "Momma, Where's My Daddy?" - 3:07 (Lori Barth & Moore)
12. "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" - 3:47 (Robert Johnson)
13. "Lullaby Baby Blues" - 2:36 (Graper & Moore)

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