Larry Carlton & Keb Mo

Eighteen-time Grammy nominee, three-time Grammy winner and all-time guitar great, Larry Carlton established himself from his first recording, A Little Help From My Friends. His studio credits include musicians and groups like Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., Herb Alpert, Quincy Jones, Bobby Bland, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and literally dozens of others. He went on to perform with the Crusaders and then with the multi platinum jazz super group Fourplay. With 30 albums to his credit and having performed on over 100 albums that have gone Gold or Platinum, Larry Carlton has set a standard for artistry that spans three decades.

In 2008 Larry Carlton also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Guitar Player magazine at the historical Ryman Auditorium and was presented the "Titan of Tone" award from Premier Guitar Magazine at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Larry also picked up 2 more Grammy nominations in 2009 bringing his career total to 18 nominations with 3 Grammy wins! Larry's Greatest Hits Rerecorded - Volume One released by 335 Records was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album and Fortune Teller from Fourplay's Energy was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

Keb' Mo: Singer-songwriter and guitarist Keb’ Mo’s music is a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America--informing all of its musical roots—before evolving into a universally celebrated art form. Born Kevin Moore in South Los Angeles to parents originally from the deep South, he adopted his better known stage name when he was a young player who became inspired by the force of this essential African-American legacy. In the storied tradition of bluesmen before him including Muddy Waters—formerly McKinley Morganfield—and Taj Mahal, who began his days as Henry St. Clair Fredericks, Moore became known as Keb’ Mo’. His acclaimed self-titled 1994 debut album introduced that now famous appellation to the world, and his latest album, 2006’s Suitcase, brings it to new heights.

Mo’s music is also a purely post-modern expression of the artistic and cultural journey that has transformed the blues, and his own point of view, over time. His distinctive sound embraces multiple eras and genres, including pop, rock folk and jazz, in which he is well-versed. In total, it owes as much to contemporary music’s singer-songwriter movement, encompassing his longtime friends and collaborators Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, as to the spirit of blues godfather Robert Johnson that dwells in his work. For Keb’ Mo’, the common bond between these influences is the underlying storytelling ethic, the power of song to convey human experience and emotional weight.

In 1980, Moore released his own solo LP, Rainmaker (now a collector’s item), through Casablanca Records. He also began gigging with the Whodunit Band, a Monk Higgins-led ensemble of top jazz and blues players who were the house cats at the now fabled L.A. nightspot Marla’s Memory Lane. The experience led to a role as a Robert Johnson-like Delta bluesman in LATC’s production of Rabbit Foot (another LATC role in Spunk, based Zora Neale Hurston’s writings, followed). The newly minted Mo’s 1994 blues-heavy debut disc, Keb’ Mo’, flowed naturally out of this evolution. The second album out on Epic Records’ just revived Okeh label—founded in 1916 and home to what’s considered the first commercial blues recording, Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues”—Keb’ Mo’ won immediate acclaim.

Subsequent albums have demonstrated the depth and breadth of Keb’ Mo’s artistry and three, Just Like You (’96), Slow Down (’98) and Keep It Simple (’04), have been honored with GRAMMYs for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 2006, Mo’ was GRAMMY-nominated for Country Song of the Year for “I Hope,” a co-write with the Dixie Chicks which appears on their new album. Also in ’06, Keb’ Mo’ produced Behind The Levee, the new album from New Orleans-based funk-rock jam band the subdudes and had music featured on the soundtrack for Sony Pictures’ RV. Throughout the year, “The Blues,” Public Radio International’s award-winning, thirteen-hour Keb’ Mo’-hosted series (originally created for ‘The Year of the Blues’ in ’03), will air on XM Satellite Radio’s Bluesville channel. Previously, Mo’ was interviewed and musically spotlighted in the “Feel Like Going Home” installment of Martin Scorsese’s celebrated 2003 film series The Blues.

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For more information on Keb Mo vist www.kebmo.net 

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Larry Carlton

Keb Mo

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