Keb' Mo'

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Over the past two decades Keb has cultivated a reputation as a modern master of American roots music through the understated excellence of his live and studio performances. His songs have been recorded by B.B. King, Buddy Guy, the Dixie Chicks, Joe Cocker and Robert Palmer, and his playing inspired leading instrument maker Gibson Brands to issue the Keb? Mo? Signature Bluesmaster acoustic guitar. He?s collaborated with a host of other artists including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, jazz diva Cassandra Wilson, Buddy Guy, Amy Grant, Solomon Burke and Little Milton. Keb also performs the theme song for the smash sit-com Mike & Molly and was music director for TV?s Memphis Beat. The three-time Grammy winner and visionary roots-music storyteller Keb? Mo? embarks on a new chapter in his career with the April 22 release of BLUESAmericana on Kind of Blue Music. His twelfth full-length album marks the 20th anniversary of his debut Keb? Mo?, but, more important, the disc is a signpost of artistic and personal growth. Acoustic guitars feature prominently in these arrangements, which boast plenty of textural flesh via electric and resonator slide guitars, mandolin, percussion, keyboards, reeds and horns, but still reveal the gorgeously chiseled architecture of their bare bones origins. ?I never set out to be a ?blues guy?, ? he explains, ?but the blues is very powerful and fuels what I do. The blues puts the ?realness? in it for me.? - Keb Mo