I've always been a sideman. Not on purpose, it just happened that way. In 1997 Butch Walker asked me to help, and that started a long career of supporting other people. Since then I've shared the stage with Butch, Peter Searcy, Gary Wright, South 70, Player, Walter Egan, Eddie Money, Mickey Thomas, Supermatic, Johnny Andrews, the Veins (with English Nick, Dave Cobb, and the mighty Darren Dodd), Matthew Wilder, Jeff Carlisi, Peter Stroud, Yacht Rock Revue and Yacht Rock Schooner, Please PleaseRock Me and so many more. I've been truly blessed to know and play with so many great musicians. 

But -  I have also always been a songwriter. I've wanted to be a songwriter/producer ever since I discovered Phil Collins in the 80's. I wrote my first song in 1986, and I've been writing songs for 25+ years now, for myself and with other folks. Being able to create songs that give joy or solace or affirmation is truly a gift that I'm grateful for. 

Now it's time to share my own music. All the recording for my 5-song debut EP is finished. It's taken a while, but I'm damn proud of these. I'm asking for help with fees for mixing, mastering, and duplication. I was lucky enough to track in some of the best studios (Madison Recording and Southern Tracks), with the best players including: Mark Cobb, Mark Dannells, Mark Bencuya, Dave Freeman, and Nick Niespodziani from Yacht Rock Revue, Tanner Hendon from Madison Recording, Ben Holst from Tunewelders/Southern Tracks, and even the mighty Peter Stroud joined me on a song!

The incredible songs I've been exposed to growing up and playing has influenced me all these years, and still does, so if these have a familiar sound, the blame falls squarely on my family and friends for teaching me that they just don't make music like they used to anymore. (Well, most don't) I've travelled far and wide with bands and the only real magic I've ever seen in my life is the way music affects people. I hope these songs give you some comfort or hope or energy or whatever you need to get from them. That's really the best reason to make music.  


Creativity pours freely from every ounce of Gary “Moses Mo” Moore. Whether he’s igniting scorching hot riffs from his appropriately red guitar with Mother’s Finest, working in the studio producing his own unique brand of rock or sharing the international stage with his fellow musicians from “Carl Carlton and the Songdogs”, 

Mo (as he is affectionately known by both friends and fans) quite simply creates. With roots in Dayton, Ohio, Mo followed his parents lead. His Dad played professionally for a while in a Kentucky bluegrass band and his Mom for family gatherings. His defining moment came when he was asked by Joyce “Baby Jean” Kennedy and Glenn “Doc” Murdock to go to Miami. “At the time of my high school graduation,” Moore said, “there were only two choices for me: go work in one of the many factories located in the area or play in a band. I chose (to) play in a band.”

 It was in the clubs of Atlanta, GA in the early seventies, that he and his fellow band mates honed a sound that not doubt was instrumental in renaming the city “Hotlanta”. He worked with the band Illusion featuring Jay Willard, Paul McCoy, Tom Reed, Barry “B.B. Queen” Borden (another former Mother’s alumni), and Bobby Chouinard. 

In 2002 Moses Mo released his first solo effort entitled “Cartoon You”. With the exception of ‘Highway Child’ and ‘Nowhere’, he wrote and recorded the songs on the CD within a six month time frame. According to Mo, “What I bring to the stage or studio is the RHYTHM; it's the only thing that matters to me. It has always been about the rhythm”. 

It’s quite obvious that Moore is equally at home on the spot lit stages of the world or behind the scenes in the studios, on his own or blending with the bands in which he plays, writing songs or building cars: a down-to-earth guy with a stellar ability to do one thing well… 

CREATE.

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