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Description Ripped from original CD with Exact Audio Copy. Art & Rip log included. All tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag. Keb' Mo' - 2004 - Keep It Simple [mp3@320]  Keb' Mo'  Wikipedia: Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb' Mo', is 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 travelled 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. The moniker "Keb Mo" was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a "street talk" abbreviation of his given name. Keep It Simple  Artist: Keb' Mo' Title: Keep It Simple Producer: Keb' Mo' Release Date: February 10, 2004 Label: Epic, Okeh Catalog: EPC 515297 2 ASIN: B00015V59Y Genre: Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Delta Blues, Modern Acoustic Blues Duration: 47:18 Wikipedia: Keep It Simple (released February 10, 2004) is the seventh studio album by blues artist Keb' Mo'. The album won a Grammy in 2005 for best contemporary blues album. AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett: Keb' Mo' is less a blues singer than a performer who works from that conceptual base, not in the way Taj Mahal does, knowingly carrying a tradition forward, half teacher and wise elder, but more as a populist, the James Taylor of blues, say, or a less recalcitrant J.J. Cale. To criticize him for not being Skip James or Robert Johnson sort of misses the point of what Keb' Mo' is shooting for, and like Bonnie Raitt discovered, bringing a modern pop-blues to a wide audience sure beats playing authentic for purists. Either path is as fake or as real as the other in a post-postmodern age where the blues creaks along as a single DNA strand in a world of rap, metal, and neo-soul. All of which makes the blues a strange career path to use to get straight out of Compton, yet that's exactly what Keb' Mo' has done, rising out of one of toughest urban landscapes in the world by covering Robert Johnson songs on his National steel guitar. So enough about whether he's a real bluesman or not, because in the end he has to put supper on the table, and he does it by crafting a warm, wry, blues-informed version of pop Americana that wrestles with contemporary problems like how to pay the mortgage, the high price of coffee, or how to afford a vacation in France. "France," the lead track on Keep It Simple, pretty much states the case with the lines "Wake up Mama/Don't you fret/I found two cheap tickets/On the Internet," which Keb' Mo' sings in a honey-tinged voice over a patented and tasteful blues shuffle. Later, in "House in California," he sings, "Better have good money/If you're looking for a house/In California," and again, he uses a shuffle to hang the news on, looking no further into the past than necessary to put the song across. Keb' Mo' is a solid guitar player, and is a master of the easy, nuanced vocal, and he makes like Denzel Washington on this album, commenting on the little problems and travails of contemporary life with a winning grin and an assured stance that you can't help but like. Is this a great album? No, just a good one, all of a piece with his earlier work, and his debut release, simply called Keb' Mo', is still probably your best bet for a first purchase. That's the album the critics like best because it stays closest to the Delta definition of the blues, and it is a good album, but Keb' Mo' didn't trade Compton for the Delta just to stay there. He's looking for a house in California and a plane ticket to France. Aren't we all? That's the blues, folks. Amazon.com Review by Hal Horowitz: "I can't even crack a frown since the blues slipped out of town," sings Keb' Mo' on "Prosperity Blues," with a patented big wide grin you can practically hear. It's a witty and accurate assessment of his approach to the often lowdown genre. Even on the album's title track, where Mo's tough National steel slide playing is most prominent, he's concerned with the daunting amount of coffee choices at his local java emporium. Call it the middle-class blues then, as Mo' wraps his grits-and-honey voice around another set of gently rolling, melodic, and warm compositions. Similar to, say, James Taylor, he spins beautifully crafted, meticulously produced, uncluttered roots-influenced music that is no less satisfying because of its smooth qualities. Traces of gospel, folk, and even bluegrass sprinkle these pop-oriented tunes, and while most of the edges here are sanded off--nobody will mistake him for Howlin' Wolf--Mo's cushy voice and charm create another winning entry in his catalog. Sophisticated and burnished, Keep It Simple goes down easy thanks to alluring songs that beckon you back like the memories of an old flame.  01. France - 2:53 02. Let Your Light Shine - 4:04 03. One Friend - 2:05 04. Shave Yo' Legs - 4:14 05. Prosperity Blues - 3:25 06. Closer - 4:18 07. Keep It Simple - 4:58 08. Riley B. King - 5:16 09. House In California - 2:41 10. Walk Back In - 5:24 11. I'm Amazing - 3:14 12. Proving You Wrong - 3:46 Personnel: Alex Brown - Vocals (Background) Sam Bush - Mandolin Robert Cray - Guest Artist, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Soloist, Vocals (Background) Chad Cromwell - Drums Shannon Curfman - Guest Artist, Vocals (Background) Nathan East - Bass Steve Ferrone - Drums Robben Ford - Guest Artist, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Soloist, Vocals (Background) Paul Franklin - Dobro Vince Gill - Guest Artist, Vocals (Background) Amy Grant - Guest Artist, Vocals (Background) Bobette Harrison-Jamison - Vocals (Background) John Hobbs - Fender Rhodes, Piano (Electric) Phillip Ingram - Vocals (Background) Munyungo Jackson - Percussion Keb' Mo' - Banjo, Bass, Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin, Percussion, Synthesizer, Vocals Ricky Lawson - Drums Reggie McBride - Bass Jeff Paris - Harmonica, Keyboards, Mandolin, Organ, Piano Greg Phillinganes - Keyboards, Piano, Piano (Electric) John Porter - Guitar Willie Weeks - Bass Andrea Zonn - Violin, Vocals (Background) Note: This is not my rip My thanks to the original uploader    ♪♬♫ ENJOY! ♪♬♫ Related Torrents
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