Over the past two decades, award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and contemporary blues artist, Keb Mo, has cultivated a reputation as a modern master of American roots music through the understated excellence of his live and studio performances. In his newest release, Keb Mo Live That Hot Pink Blues Album (Kind of Blue Music; 4/15/16), Keb delivers some of his best material in the most authentic form, through live recordings. Recorded while on tour in 2015, the double-disc album features 16 live recorded songs from Keb Mos extensive catalog. Several of the tracks are songs off his most recent album, BLUESAmericana, which garnered Keb Mo a 2015 Blues Music Award from the Blues Foundation, three 2015 GRAMMY award nominations and multiple other achievements...
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Over the past two decades, award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and contemporary blues artist, Keb Mo, has cultivated a reputation as a modern master of American roots music through the understated excellence of his live and studio performances. In his newest release, Keb Mo Live That Hot Pink Blues Album (Kind of Blue Music; 4/15/16), Keb delivers some of his best material in the most authentic form, through live recordings. Recorded while on tour in 2015, the double-disc album features 16 live recorded songs from Keb Mos extensive catalog. Several of the tracks are songs off his most recent album, BLUESAmericana, which garnered Keb Mo a 2015 Blues Music Award from the Blues Foundation, three 2015 GRAMMY award nominations and multiple other achievements. B.B. King, Buddy Guy, the Dixie Chicks, Joe Cocker, Robert Palmer and Tom Jones have all recorded his songs. His guitar playing has inspired leading instrument makers Gibson Brands to issue the Keb Mo Signature Bluesmaster acoustic guitar and Martin Guitars to issue the HD-28KM Keb Mo Limited Edition Signature model. He has collaborated with a host of artists, including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, Cassandra Wilson, Buddy Guy, Amy Grant, Solomon Burke, Little Milton and many others. Keb also wrote and performed the theme song for the smash sitcom, Mike and was music composer for TVs Memphis Beat. He has also been featured in TV and film, playing Robert Johnson in the 1998 documentary Cant You Hear The Wind Howl, appeared three times on the television series, Touched By an Angel, and was the ghostly bluesman Possum in John Sayles 2007 movie, Honeydripper. Keb is very involved with the Playing For Change movement, which was created to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music. He has been involved with Playing For Change since its inception and has been featured in many related videos and events. Keb was featured on the Playing For Change album: Playing for Change 3: Songs Around the World, which was released in 2014 and features over 180 musicians from 31 countries, including Keith Richards, Sara Bareilles, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, Taj Mahal and many others.
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