I did manage to post a different 2020 home concert by Keb Mo. You can find that here:
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/04/keb-mo-home-concert-franklin-tn-4-4-2020.html
This is from a similar time period. But that was one single, album-length performance. This comes from a bunch of different dates over a one month time span. Mo's discography is big enough though that most of the songs are different. The ones played in both are "Grandma's Hands" and "Life Is Beautiful."
Personally, I think Mo's special talent is playing acoustic blues. Unfortunately, he's usually chosen to go in an "adult contemporary" direction instead. So it's great to have recordings like this, where he went back to his acoustic roots.
Everything here is unreleased, by the way. Most of the videos come from Mo's YouTube webpage. He's the one that gave the series of videos the title "Mo at Home."
This album is 44 minutes long.
01 talk (Keb Mo)
02 America the Beautiful (Keb Mo)
03 One Friend (Keb Mo)
04 talk (Keb Mo)
05 I'm a Hero (Keb Mo)
06 talk (Keb Mo)
07 Hand It Over (Keb Mo)
08 talk (Keb Mo)
09 Just like You (Keb Mo)
10 I See Love (Keb Mo)
11 Grandma's Hands (Keb Mo)
12 talk (Keb Mo)
13 I'm Telling You Now (Keb Mo)
14 In Spite of Ourselves (Keb Mo & Robbie Brooks Moore)
15 I'll Be Your Water (Keb Mo)
16 Dangerous Mood (Keb Mo)
17 Life Is Beautiful (Keb Mo)
The cover is a screenshot from one of the YouTube videos of the songs here.
Thanks so much. I find Keb Mo very uplifting.
ReplyDeletePaul, I found your views about Keb' Mo's albums very similar to mine: they are way too overproduced, and the production "values" obscure the greatness of Keb's music. Years ago I got my hands on some acoustic Keb shows from 1996 and 1997 (soundboards). On some songs he is accompanied by a banjo player named Clayton Gibb, who is quite good. I absolutely loved them, and was disappointed when I branched out and listened to a couple of his officially released albums. Always on the lookout for more acoustic, pure Keb' Mo', I was delighted to come across these.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for them - and for everything you do!
Yep. I think he was very misguided with his career direction. His first album was his best, before all that AOR stuff kicked in. Luckily, there's still some good concert recordings.
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