On Friday (January 21), five-time GRAMMY champion Keb’ Mo’ launched his brand-new unabridged, Good To Be by means of Rounder Records. The cd launch was gone along with by the main video clip for the solitary “Good to Be (Home Again),” that made its program best on CMT Music, CMT.com, and also ViacomCBS Times Square signboards. The clip was shot in Mo’s home town of Compton, California, and also includes the well known Compton Cowboys. Recently Keb’ Mo’ carried out “Good To Be (Home Again)” on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
“‘Good To Be (Home Again)’ seems like the title track to my life,” discusses Kevin Moore, that is best recognized by his name Keb’ Mo.’ “I’m so thrilled to share the experience of a day in my area with the Compton Cowboys.” Grinning, he states, “What’s terrific concerning Compton is you never ever recognize when somebody’s mosting likely to come riding down the block on an equine.”
Good To Be has actually been commended by American Songwriter, Billboard, Wide Open Country, Guitar World, and also much more. No Depression called it “…a collection of originals that resists style pigeonholing,” while Folk Alley claimed, “Mo’’s mellifluous vocals sing straight to the undersurface people, and also his songs develops a mood that covers us in the heat of that shipment.”
Good To Be was co-produced by Keb’ Mo’ together with c and w tale Vince Gill, that created 3 of the cd’s 13 tracks, and also three-time GRAMMY champion Tom Hambridge (B.B. King, Buddy Guy). Darius Rucker, Kristin Chenoweth, and also Old Crow Medicine Show all make visitor looks on the cd.
The cd was created in between Nashville and also his youth residence in Compton, which Keb’ lately acquired and also refurbished. He commonly located himself assessing the concept of residence and also considering what it indicates to belong and also what it requires to remain real to on your own. “You can’t bring a perspective to Compton,” mirrors Keb’. “You can’t present. You can’t be anything however actual when you’re strolling down the exact same roads you utilized to ride your bike on as a child. In a great deal of means, returning there seemed like it finished me.”
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