Keb' Mo'

With pristinely recorded acoustic guitar and minimal percussion, this modern bluesman fashions a truly new type of blues that mixes New Age, soul and blues. He's part Ted Hawkins, part Bobby McFerrin (of "Don't Worry Be Happy" fame). Despite the obvious attempt to gain a mainstream audience, there are really strong songs here.

Someone was obviously paying attention in 1990 when the Robert Johnson box set began
to gallop up the charts on its way toward more than 500,000 sales. Bonnie Raitt's
breakthrough the year before didn't hurt the cause of acoustic blues, either. Both of
which explain why Keb' Mo' finds himself on the newly revived OKeh Records, which Epic
hopes to make an eclectic blues label. A Los Angeles studio veteran, guitarist Ke... More >