Good To Be... Keb' Mo'

• 1 Good To Be (Home Again) 03:33
• 2 So Easy 03:08
• 3 Sunny And Warm 03:25
• 4 Good Strong Woman 03:18
• 5 The Medicine Man 03:38
• 6 Marvelous To Me 03:35
• 7 Lean On Me 03:53
• 8 Like Love 03:41
• 9 All Dressed Up 04:15
• 10 ’62 Chevy 03:28
• 11 Louder 04:24
• 12 So Good To Me 03:47
• 13 Quiet Moments 03:54
• Total Runtime 47:59

Info for Good To Be...

Written partially in Nashville and partially in the Compton house Keb’ grew up in, Good To Be… weaves together past and present into a heartwarming tapestry spanning more than forty years of sonic evolution. Joined by a variety of collaborators, including country legend Vince Gill, famed producer Tom Hambridge (B.B. King, Buddy Guy), Darius Rucker, Kristin Chenoweth, and Old Crow Medicine Show, Good To Be…is a deeply cohesive and optimistic collection of music about appreciating what you’ve got, where you come from, and who you get to share it with.

“Good To Be (Home Again)” is a celebration of Keb’s upbringing in Compton, California, with a theme of growing old and growing up without forgetting where you come from. He wrote some of the album in the house in Compton in which he grew up, and some of it in his adopted home town of Nashville.

“I believe that music has the power to heal,” says Mo’, “and I wanted this album to make people feel good. I wanted it to bring joy and make them maybe think about where they come from and the journeys that brought them to where they are.”

Keb’ Mo’’s last album of all-new material, Oklahoma, was released in June 2019 and won the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards. He followed it with his first holiday release, Moonlight, Mistletoe & You, in December that year.

Keb' Mo'

Keb' Mo'
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. His recent project – TajMo– is a cross-generational collaboration with legendary blues musician Taj Mahal which merges the two artists’ distinctive voices and guitar styles. The project, which won the 2018 GRAMMY for “Best Contemporary Blues Album,” features guest appearances by Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Lizz Wright and Bonnie Raitt. 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 & Molly,” and was music composer for TV’s “Memphis Beat.” He has also been featured in TV and film, playing Robert Johnson in the 1998 documentary “Can’t 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.

“It felt like everything in my life was breaking down,” the five-time Grammy-winner reflects. “My health, my relationship, my whole world. The only way I knew how to respond was to break the music down, too.”

Born and raised in Compton, Keb’ took the first steps of his remarkable journey at the age of 21, when he landed a gig playing with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach. For the next 20 years, he would work primarily behind the scenes, establishing himself as a respected guitarist, songwriter, and arranger with a unique gift for linking the past and present in his evocative playing and singing. Though he recorded a one-off album in 1980 under his birth name, Kevin Moore, it wasn’t until 1994 that he would introduce the world to Keb’ Mo’ with the release of his widely acclaimed self-titled debut. Critics were quick to take note of his modern, genre-bending take on old school sounds, and two years later, Keb’ garnered his first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album with Just Like You. In the decades to come, he would go on to take home four more Grammy Awards; top the Billboard Blues Chart eight times; perform everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The White House; collaborate with the likes of Taj Mahal, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, The Chicks, and Lyle Lovett; have his compositions recorded and sampled by artists as diverse as B.B. King, Zac Brown, and BTS; release signature guitars with both Gibson and Martin; compose music for television series like Mike and Molly, Memphis Beat, B Positive, and Martha Stewart Living; appear as himself in Martin Scorcese’s The Blues and Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing; flex his acting chops playing Robert Johnson in the 1998 documentary Can’t You Hear The Wind Howl, Possum in John Sayles’ Honeydripper, and Howlin’ Wolf in CMT’s Sun Records; and earn the Americana Music Association’s 2021 award for Lifetime Achievement in Performance.

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