Keb' Mo' - Door (CD)

Album Details: Door

Release Date:10/10/2000
Label:Sony
UPC:074646142820

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  • Overall:

    Blues still rules!!!

    By ady404  Dec 18, 2000

    I've got one more(or moore? :o)) favorite musician. In the hip-hop era blues still rules. Make your kids listen to Keb'.

    P.S. Everything began with only three chords. Incredible, isn't it?

  • Overall:

    Keb Mo releases another solid album.

    By laxman23  Nov 9, 2000

    Being a fan of Keb Mo, you'll know he does great work. With the release of his fourth album "The Door"(2000) he creates the blues, folk sound that he perfected on his first three albums. This is an entertainer for everyone, and live he puts on a gre...at show. Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    Keb' Mo''s self-titled first album, from its Robert Johnson covers to its appearance on a resuscitated Okeh Records, seemed to suggest the arrival of a Delta blues traditionalist, even though the former Kevin Moore was really a Los Angeles native who had kicked around the music business for years playing various styles of music. The follow-up, Just Like You, was therefore a disappointment to blues purists, since it clearly used folk-blues as a basis to create adult contemporary pop in the Bonnie Raitt mold. But to the music industry, that was just fine, since it fostered the hope that here was an artist (finally) who could find a way to make the blues -- consistently revered but commercially dicey -- pay, and Keb' Mo' won a Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy for his effort. Slow Down (1998) brought him a second Grammy and got even higher in the charts. The Door is more of the same. Keb' Mo''s slightly gritty voice and fingerpicking are the focus of the music, but he does not hesitate... to add mainstream pop elements, beginning with writing partners who include Bobby McFerrin and Melissa Manchester, and continuing with a backup band that features such session aces as keyboard player Greg Phillinganes and drummer Jim Keltner. This is music that is folkish and bluesy rather than being actual folk-blues. Just in case anyone hasn't gotten the point yet, Keb' Mo' begins the album's sole cover, Elmore James' "It Hurts Me Too," in authentic folk-blues style, after which the arrangement lurches into a heavily percussive, anything but traditional direction. It's fair warning that the singer/guitarist is interested in tradition only as a jumping-off point. Maybe that's what "contemporary blues" is. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Keb Mo

Keb' Mo' draws heavily on the oldfashioned country blues style of Robert Johnson, but keeps his sound contemporary with touches of soul and folksy storytelling. He writes much of his own material and has applied his acoustic, electric, and slide guitar skills to jazz and rockoriented bands in the past as well. Born Kevin Moore in Los Angeles to parents of Southern desce... Read more