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Article: KEB' MO' SAYS HIS OLD-TIME SOUND CAME TO HIM 'HONESTLY'.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 19, 2001
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In the mid-1990s, Keb' Mo' brought the gritty, soulful sounds of Delta-style blues to a new generation of listeners.
His greatest challenge was making the music relevant for a sophisticated urban audience that couldn't relate to the hardscrabble lives of America's pioneering bluesman.
"It's hard to do the blues the way it was done originally," the 49-year-old singer-guitarist, born Kevin Moore, said in a phone interview.
"The culture had to come together in a certain way for the blues to happen. That time is gone. So all we can do now is reflect on what it once was. We have the field recordings of Alan Lomax, we have the Robert Johnson boxed ...