Rock/Blues/Pop

14 MP3 Songs in this album (45:06) !
Related styles: BLUES: Blues-Rock, ROCK: Americana



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DANIEL MOORE

Songwriter Daniel Mooreâs compositions have been recorded by multitudes of top rock, pop, country, folk, R&B, jazz and blues artists including Joe Cocker, Brooks & Dunn, Three Dog Night, The Everly Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Waylon Jennings, B.W. Stevenson, The Band, Maria Muldaur, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelma Houston, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, Bobby Blue Bland, The Association, Marcia Ball, and many others. Now, on Mooreâs new album THE GIVEAWAY, the public gets to hear his versions of some of the hundreds of songs he has written.

One of the music industryâs top songwriters for the past three-and-a-half-decades, Moore seldom cut skeletal, rough âdemosâ (demonstration records) of the songs he wrote. Instead, he rented top studios, hired the best session musicians available and produced polished, full-band versions of his tunes. For THE GIVEAWAY, he has dug in the vault to compile 16 of his favorites from these 1972-2006 recordings that span the pop, roots rock, folk, Americana and blues genres. Mooreâs recordings can be purchased at his record companyâs website (www.djmrec.com), at online stores such as www.amazon.com or www.cdbaby.com, and at digital download sites such as iTunes.com.

âI was never very interested in sitting down at the piano or with an acoustic guitar and recording a bare-bones arrangement of a song I wrote just so some act with a recording contract could take a listen to it and hear the words and basic melody,â explains Moore. âI always took a new song into the studio with the idea of making a record, producing a finished master that I would be proud for anyone to hear. I put a lot of thought into it ahead of time, tried to get musicians who would be best suited for the material, and spent money at quality studios.â





Daniel took up saxophone in the third grade and played in school bands through high school while also having his own jazz combo. But after hearing folk musicians such as the Kingston Trio and Pete Seeger, Moore switched to acoustic guitar and began performing in coffee houses. After three years of college, Daniel moved to Los Angeles when he was 21 and got three record deal offers in the first two weeks (âI took the wrong one,â he says with a laugh). The record company said they expected him to compose some of the material so that night he wrote his first song and the next day recorded the album (FOLK SONGS FROM HERE AND THERE).

Moore joined The Fairmount Singers (as a bass-player and singer) and spent a year touring the country as both the opening act and backing band for the popular hit maker Jimmie Rodgers. Daniel also spent two more years on the road performing folk music, first with The Ledbetters and then with his own group. He returned to Los Angeles in 1965 and became a producer (he and his partner, Dan Dalton, produced 25 acts that year and got 15 of them record deals). The next year he had a novelty hit (âThe Bearsâ) released under the name Fastest Group Alive and a release (Lovinâ Man) by Atlantic Records as the group Nirvana Banana. In 1968 he received his first songwriting check after The Everly Brothers recorded âDeliver Me.â 1968-69 he produced The Colours and Buzz Clifford for Dot Records and several albums with Mike Curbâs financial assistance.
In 1970 Moore was a singer (and led the 10-voice choir) on the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour featuring Joe Cocker and Leon Russell that was immortalized as a live album and feature film. That same year Daniel recorded his second album, simply called DANIEL MOORE, which was released by ABC/Dunhill. From the mid-Sixties through the Seventies and Eighties, Moore produced dozens and dozens of albums including ones by Delbert McClinton & Glen Clark (co-produced by T-Bone Burnett,) Burnettâs own first album, Sweathog, Toby Beau, James Booker, Kim Carnes, and Don Preston. Daniel and his brother Matthew performed regularly from 1976 through 1987 as The Moore Brothers Band. Daniel also sang background vocals on numerous albums and tours for artists such as Kim Carnes and Joe Cocker.

Many other artists have recorded songs by Moore including Jerry Jeff Walker, Colin James, Jennifer Warnes, Canned Heat, Levon Helm, David Cassidy, Don Nix, Pacific Gas & Electric, James & Bobby Purify, Mick Abrahams, John Hartford, The Hughes Corporation, and Denny Brooks, with some artists recording more than one Moore composition including Cocker, Raitt, Carnes, David Clayton Thomas of Blood Sweat & Tears, The Dillards, and B.W. Stevensen. In addition, Daniel co-wrote âFire In The Holeâ which was recorded by Marty Grebb for Steven Seagalâs movie âFire Down Belowâ and the soundtrack album on Warner Bros. Records.

Occasionally Moore releases his own CDs â the country-ish RIDING A HORSE & HOLDING UP THE WORLD, his annual musical Christmas cards to his mother compiled on the instrumental YOSEMITE WONDERLAND, and the acoustic-oriented MARTIN & DANIEL (the title pays tribute to the guitar he has played and written on for four-and-a-half decades). The GIVE AWAY CD was released in July 2008; a rock/pop album.

âMost of my songs I write for myself, not specifically for someone else,â explains Moore. âI need a combination of energy and inspiration. I canât force songwriting. I donât have a schedule. I do it when something moves me. For me the melody almost always comes first and then I write lyrics to fit the mood of the music. My brother got a letter that ended with: âLet your light shine in the halls of Shambala.â I did some research and discovered this word originated in Sanskrit 5,000 years ago. I came up with the words and melody for the song in ten minutes singing a cappella while driving on the freeway. When I got home I picked up my guitar and finished it in another five minutes. But with âMy Maria,â it took me two years to write the music and a few of the words. When I played it for B.W. Stevenson, he went right into another room and finished the lyrics in 15 minutes.â

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