IAN MOORE
''TO BE LOVED''
AUGUST 14 2007
43:31
1. To Be Loved/5:26
2. Innocent Maneuvers/4:29
3. House Up On The Hill/3:31
4. Literary Kind/2:32
5. Walk On By/3:51
6. Simple Girl/4:38
7. 30 Days/2:45
8. Killing Joke/2:22
9. Colvo's Passage/2:45
10. Small, Who Would Be Tall/2:25
11. Civil Light/5:06
12. Wait For The Sun/3:39
All Tracks By Moore
Bukka Allen /Organ, Piano
Pete Droge /Piano, Vocals
Kullen Fuchs /Keyboards, Trumpet, Vibraphone
Paul Hiraga /Vocals
John Hollis /Timpani
Ian Moore /Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals
George Reiff /Bass
Johnny Sangster /Guitar
Kyle Schneider /Drums
REVIEW
by Erik Hage
With To Be Loved, Ian Moore has fashioned his most challenging and experimental album yet, moving toward moody soundscapes, haunting beauty, and nervy energy. The title track makes mesmerizing and surprising shifts, from mellow to abrasive and back again, coming off like a John Lennon composition reimagined in a post-Wilco world. And it truly is Wilco that Moore evokes here, perhaps not directly in sound, but in that group's free-ranging, limitless tendencies to marry abrasion and beauty and noise and song -- and to not be held back by genre preconceptions. "Literary Kind" has a power pop-like storming energy that calls to mind early Elvis Costello or Nick Lowe, while "Civil Light" sounds like the soundtrack to a Southern gothic murder noir -- if it were rendered by David Bowie in Berlin. "30 Days" finds Moore landing straight back in the land of ear-pleasing power pop, a pose he strikes quite well. It might be hard to remember that a decade before this album's release Moore was known as a guitar prodigy in the blues-rock vein of Stevie Ray Vaughan and as a guitar slinging sideman for such folks as Joe Ely. Released in 2004, Luminaria found the transformation from hired guitar to master songwriter and sometimes experimental pop auteur complete. To Be Loved exceeds that mark; Moore has created a brand of challenging yet highly melodic new-millennium pop/rock that establishes him as an audacious songwriter and player. He has struck that rare balance between astute complexity and utter pop appeal.
BIOGRAPHY
by John Bush
Encouraged by his parents, Ian Moore took up the violin at age six, moving to guitar nine years later. The Austin-based blues-rocker's early influences included the Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder and Sly & the Family Stone. Moore gained experience touring as a guitarist with Joe Ely; this led the way to a solo tour opening for the Rolling Stones and ZZ Top. He then signed with Capricorn; three records followed from 1993-95: Ian Moore, Live from Austin EP and Modernday Folklore.
It was his last Capricorn release, Modernday Folklore, that suggested that the Texan was looking beyond the blues-rock roots of his home state towards a more expansive sound. Hints of southern soul, gospel and Beatle-esque pop shook hands with the blues riffs that Moore had previously traded in exclusively. It was four years before his next album, but when Ian Moore's Got the Green Grass appeared in 1999, the transformation from blues-rocker was complete. His lauded guitar work wasn't abandoned, but was no longer the sole force driving Moore's songs. He continued to explore the blues, as well as highly crafted pop songs with his 2000 release, And All the Colors, creating a unique album dynamic in the process of balancing the two styles. Always noted for his live performances, Ian Moore released his first full length live album in 2001, Via Satellite, with his touring band Action Company. Where electric blues and atmospheric songwriting had been juggled on previous recordings, Via Satellite managed to meld the two with excellent effect. In 2004, Moore returned with his first release on the North Carolina based Yep Roc label, Luminaria. Three years later To Be Loved was issued on Justice.
''TO BE LOVED''
AUGUST 14 2007
43:31
1. To Be Loved/5:26
2. Innocent Maneuvers/4:29
3. House Up On The Hill/3:31
4. Literary Kind/2:32
5. Walk On By/3:51
6. Simple Girl/4:38
7. 30 Days/2:45
8. Killing Joke/2:22
9. Colvo's Passage/2:45
10. Small, Who Would Be Tall/2:25
11. Civil Light/5:06
12. Wait For The Sun/3:39
All Tracks By Moore
Bukka Allen /Organ, Piano
Pete Droge /Piano, Vocals
Kullen Fuchs /Keyboards, Trumpet, Vibraphone
Paul Hiraga /Vocals
John Hollis /Timpani
Ian Moore /Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Vocals
George Reiff /Bass
Johnny Sangster /Guitar
Kyle Schneider /Drums
REVIEW
by Erik Hage
With To Be Loved, Ian Moore has fashioned his most challenging and experimental album yet, moving toward moody soundscapes, haunting beauty, and nervy energy. The title track makes mesmerizing and surprising shifts, from mellow to abrasive and back again, coming off like a John Lennon composition reimagined in a post-Wilco world. And it truly is Wilco that Moore evokes here, perhaps not directly in sound, but in that group's free-ranging, limitless tendencies to marry abrasion and beauty and noise and song -- and to not be held back by genre preconceptions. "Literary Kind" has a power pop-like storming energy that calls to mind early Elvis Costello or Nick Lowe, while "Civil Light" sounds like the soundtrack to a Southern gothic murder noir -- if it were rendered by David Bowie in Berlin. "30 Days" finds Moore landing straight back in the land of ear-pleasing power pop, a pose he strikes quite well. It might be hard to remember that a decade before this album's release Moore was known as a guitar prodigy in the blues-rock vein of Stevie Ray Vaughan and as a guitar slinging sideman for such folks as Joe Ely. Released in 2004, Luminaria found the transformation from hired guitar to master songwriter and sometimes experimental pop auteur complete. To Be Loved exceeds that mark; Moore has created a brand of challenging yet highly melodic new-millennium pop/rock that establishes him as an audacious songwriter and player. He has struck that rare balance between astute complexity and utter pop appeal.
BIOGRAPHY
by John Bush
Encouraged by his parents, Ian Moore took up the violin at age six, moving to guitar nine years later. The Austin-based blues-rocker's early influences included the Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder and Sly & the Family Stone. Moore gained experience touring as a guitarist with Joe Ely; this led the way to a solo tour opening for the Rolling Stones and ZZ Top. He then signed with Capricorn; three records followed from 1993-95: Ian Moore, Live from Austin EP and Modernday Folklore.
It was his last Capricorn release, Modernday Folklore, that suggested that the Texan was looking beyond the blues-rock roots of his home state towards a more expansive sound. Hints of southern soul, gospel and Beatle-esque pop shook hands with the blues riffs that Moore had previously traded in exclusively. It was four years before his next album, but when Ian Moore's Got the Green Grass appeared in 1999, the transformation from blues-rocker was complete. His lauded guitar work wasn't abandoned, but was no longer the sole force driving Moore's songs. He continued to explore the blues, as well as highly crafted pop songs with his 2000 release, And All the Colors, creating a unique album dynamic in the process of balancing the two styles. Always noted for his live performances, Ian Moore released his first full length live album in 2001, Via Satellite, with his touring band Action Company. Where electric blues and atmospheric songwriting had been juggled on previous recordings, Via Satellite managed to meld the two with excellent effect. In 2004, Moore returned with his first release on the North Carolina based Yep Roc label, Luminaria. Three years later To Be Loved was issued on Justice.
