BOB MOSLEY
''BOB MOSLEY''
1972
35:59
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01 - The Joker 03:34
02 - Gypsy Wedding 03:34
03 - Kearny 03:09
04 - Squaw Valley Nils (Hocked Soul) 03:04
05 - Let The Music Play 03:27
06 - Thanks 03:09
07 - Where Do The Birds Go 03:31
08 - Hand In Hand 02:57
09 - Gone Fishin' 03:16
10 - Nothing To Do 02:16
11 - So Many Troubles 03:57
All Tracks By Bob Mosley
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Woodie Berry/Choir/Chorus, Rhythm Section
Ed Black/Guitar (Steel), Pedal Steel
Wayne Jackson/Arranger, Horn
Andrew Lowe/Arranger, Horn
The Memphis Horns/Arranger, Horn
Mill Valley Rhythm Section/Multi Instruments
Bob Mosley/Guitar, Vocals
Frank Smith/Choir/Chorus
Allen Wehr/Choir/Chorus, Rhythm Section
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REVIEW/AMG
Mark Deming
Within a year of Moby Grape sadly crashing to a halt again after the release of the ill-fated reunion album 20 Granite Creek, Bob Mosley (who sang, played guitar, and wrote songs with the group) released his first solo album, and if 1972's Bob Mosley isn't a masterpiece on the order of Moby Grape's peerless debut album, it showed that Mosley's share of the talent that produced that great record was still in working order. Bob Mosley is a decidedly harder-rocking album than much of the Grape catalog, with Mosley and Ed Black loading up the songs with plenty of tough guitar work, but the melodies show the same blend of grace and power that marked his best work, and Mosley's pipes are in strong form here, with his blues-based vocals sounding potent and impassioned throughout (he also gets a great assist from the Memphis Horns, who add their punchy brass accents to several tracks). "Joker" and "Where Do the Birds Go" are fiery rockers, "Let the Music Play" is the sort of anthem Grape needed in the wake of their debut, and "Thanks" and "Gone Fishin'" are country-rock workouts that fit Mosley like a glove. Bob Mosley turned out to be Mosley's first and last solo album (except for an unreleased 1974 set that didn't see release until 1999), but if he fell victim to the same bad luck that haunted Moby Grape, he at least left behind a record that proved he had the talent to make it as a solo act if he'd been dealt a better hand.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Leggett
Moby Grape
Singer/songwriter and bassist James Robert Mosley was born December 4, 1942, in Paradise Valley, CA, and spent his teens playing in a number of garage combos, including the Misfits, the Strangers, and the Frantics. The Frantics eventually morphed into Moby Grape, and with a lineup of Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis, Skip Spence, Don Stevenson, and Jerry Miller, the band recorded the brilliant but ill-fated Moby Grape album, released by Columbia in 1967.
If ever a band was snake-bitten, it was Moby Grape, and thanks to backfiring publicity stunts, poor management, and record company snafus, the band never found a steady mass audience. It didn't help, either, that at least two of the members -- Spence and Mosley -- begin to show sings of mental disorder. Moby Grape managed to record two more albums with its original configuration participating before Spence and then Mosley left the band.
20 Granite Creek
In 1969 Mosley joined the U.S. Marines, making it through basic training, only to be diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (a mental condition that also afflicted Skip Spence) and was discharged from the Marines nine months later. He rejoined Grape for 1971's 20 Granite Creek album, but the group splintered after the album was completed. Mosley next signed with Reprise Records and his solo album, Bob Mosley, was released in 1972. By 1973 Mosley was listed as a ward of the State of California. He resurfaced in the late '70s as a member of the Ducks, who backed Neil Young on a series of impromptu bar gigs around Santa Cruz in 1977. In 1989 the odd Live at Indigo Ranch by Mosley Grape was released, and Mosley joined former Grape members Miller, Stevenson, and Lewis as the Melvilles (they weren't legally allowed to use the name Moby Grape at this point) to record Legendary Grape, which was released on cassette that same year, and has floated around as a bootleg ever since. Eventually the album was reissued on CD with eight bonus tracks in 2003 by DIG Music.
Moby Grape has reunited in different configurations (and under a variety of names) several times for shows and other projects over the years, sometimes with Mosley and sometimes without him. A soulful singer whose songs deftly bridged the gap between country and blues, Mosley contributed "Mr. Blues," "Bitter Wind," "Rose Colored Eyes," "Trucking Man," "Hoochie," "Lazy Me," "Come in the Morning," and other solid songs to the Grape canon in the early years.
Never Dreamed
By the mid-'90s he was homeless, sleeping under a freeway overpass in San Diego. Other members of Moby Grape have attempted at various times to help Mosley, and he still occasionally surfaces to play a show, but he appears to prefer life on the street, either by design or as a result of his illness. An album he recorded in the 1970s with members of Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets, was released as Never Dreamed in 1999 by the German label Taxim Records.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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''BOB MOSLEY''
1972
35:59
**********
01 - The Joker 03:34
02 - Gypsy Wedding 03:34
03 - Kearny 03:09
04 - Squaw Valley Nils (Hocked Soul) 03:04
05 - Let The Music Play 03:27
06 - Thanks 03:09
07 - Where Do The Birds Go 03:31
08 - Hand In Hand 02:57
09 - Gone Fishin' 03:16
10 - Nothing To Do 02:16
11 - So Many Troubles 03:57
All Tracks By Bob Mosley
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Woodie Berry/Choir/Chorus, Rhythm Section
Ed Black/Guitar (Steel), Pedal Steel
Wayne Jackson/Arranger, Horn
Andrew Lowe/Arranger, Horn
The Memphis Horns/Arranger, Horn
Mill Valley Rhythm Section/Multi Instruments
Bob Mosley/Guitar, Vocals
Frank Smith/Choir/Chorus
Allen Wehr/Choir/Chorus, Rhythm Section
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REVIEW/AMG
Mark Deming
Within a year of Moby Grape sadly crashing to a halt again after the release of the ill-fated reunion album 20 Granite Creek, Bob Mosley (who sang, played guitar, and wrote songs with the group) released his first solo album, and if 1972's Bob Mosley isn't a masterpiece on the order of Moby Grape's peerless debut album, it showed that Mosley's share of the talent that produced that great record was still in working order. Bob Mosley is a decidedly harder-rocking album than much of the Grape catalog, with Mosley and Ed Black loading up the songs with plenty of tough guitar work, but the melodies show the same blend of grace and power that marked his best work, and Mosley's pipes are in strong form here, with his blues-based vocals sounding potent and impassioned throughout (he also gets a great assist from the Memphis Horns, who add their punchy brass accents to several tracks). "Joker" and "Where Do the Birds Go" are fiery rockers, "Let the Music Play" is the sort of anthem Grape needed in the wake of their debut, and "Thanks" and "Gone Fishin'" are country-rock workouts that fit Mosley like a glove. Bob Mosley turned out to be Mosley's first and last solo album (except for an unreleased 1974 set that didn't see release until 1999), but if he fell victim to the same bad luck that haunted Moby Grape, he at least left behind a record that proved he had the talent to make it as a solo act if he'd been dealt a better hand.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Leggett
Moby Grape
Singer/songwriter and bassist James Robert Mosley was born December 4, 1942, in Paradise Valley, CA, and spent his teens playing in a number of garage combos, including the Misfits, the Strangers, and the Frantics. The Frantics eventually morphed into Moby Grape, and with a lineup of Bob Mosley, Peter Lewis, Skip Spence, Don Stevenson, and Jerry Miller, the band recorded the brilliant but ill-fated Moby Grape album, released by Columbia in 1967.
If ever a band was snake-bitten, it was Moby Grape, and thanks to backfiring publicity stunts, poor management, and record company snafus, the band never found a steady mass audience. It didn't help, either, that at least two of the members -- Spence and Mosley -- begin to show sings of mental disorder. Moby Grape managed to record two more albums with its original configuration participating before Spence and then Mosley left the band.
20 Granite Creek
In 1969 Mosley joined the U.S. Marines, making it through basic training, only to be diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic (a mental condition that also afflicted Skip Spence) and was discharged from the Marines nine months later. He rejoined Grape for 1971's 20 Granite Creek album, but the group splintered after the album was completed. Mosley next signed with Reprise Records and his solo album, Bob Mosley, was released in 1972. By 1973 Mosley was listed as a ward of the State of California. He resurfaced in the late '70s as a member of the Ducks, who backed Neil Young on a series of impromptu bar gigs around Santa Cruz in 1977. In 1989 the odd Live at Indigo Ranch by Mosley Grape was released, and Mosley joined former Grape members Miller, Stevenson, and Lewis as the Melvilles (they weren't legally allowed to use the name Moby Grape at this point) to record Legendary Grape, which was released on cassette that same year, and has floated around as a bootleg ever since. Eventually the album was reissued on CD with eight bonus tracks in 2003 by DIG Music.
Moby Grape has reunited in different configurations (and under a variety of names) several times for shows and other projects over the years, sometimes with Mosley and sometimes without him. A soulful singer whose songs deftly bridged the gap between country and blues, Mosley contributed "Mr. Blues," "Bitter Wind," "Rose Colored Eyes," "Trucking Man," "Hoochie," "Lazy Me," "Come in the Morning," and other solid songs to the Grape canon in the early years.
Never Dreamed
By the mid-'90s he was homeless, sleeping under a freeway overpass in San Diego. Other members of Moby Grape have attempted at various times to help Mosley, and he still occasionally surfaces to play a show, but he appears to prefer life on the street, either by design or as a result of his illness. An album he recorded in the 1970s with members of Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets, was released as Never Dreamed in 1999 by the German label Taxim Records.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
**********
WEBSITE
**********
TO THE TOP
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