BOB MOSS: Folknik

Bob Moss

Folknik

© 2000 Soundco (676509000720)

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This is a collection of Folk classics and forgotten gems that Bob has re-interpeted in his unique style. The cover art is by Cartoonist Daniel Clowes (Ghost World / Eightball)...

tracks

1 The Prisoner's Song
2 When You Wish Apon a Star
3 I Want to Hold Your Hand
4 There Was a Man
5 Greensleeves
6 Melody D'amour
7 Don't Forget Me Love
8 Lady Gay
9 Hide Your Love Away
10 Railroad Boy
11 You and I
12 Nancy
13 True Love Will Find You in the End
14 Heartbreak Breakdown
15 Holy Ghost

notes

Bob Moss breathes a welcome breath of fresh air into this collection of Folk classics and Pop gems. A must hear for Folk-rock hipsters of all ages.

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You might think that a broke 48 year old singer/songwriter ought to put down his thrift store guitar, get a regular job and move out of that damn storage garage/office. But then you've probably never met Bob Moss, heard one of his obscure recordings or seen any of his unique visual art.

Bob was born in 1953, the son of an American serviceman. Bob's interest in music was spurred at an early age by a 1960's t.v. show that featured singer/banjo strummer Dolly Parton. Thus, the young Bob Moss asked his parents to buy him a banjo and so it began.

The first songs he learned to play came from Pete Seeger's book "How to Play the 5 String Banjo". Other early influences were Woody Guthrie, the Beach Boys, Little Jimmy Dickens, Elvis, and Oscar Brand to name just a few.

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  • Change is healthy
    author: Susan Naud

    The fifteen familiar tunes on "Folknik" have been exfoliated to within an inch of their lives and come out changed forever. You may not be comfortable with a cover of 'Hide Your Love Away' which seeks to portray "THE INSANE PSYCHOTIC quality of the song" or a rendition of Greensleeves that sounds like it was performed by the bluegrass bastard child of The Beach Boys and The Doors. You may not be prepared for the contrast between the sweetly down-home 'You And I', a spry cover of the 1950's hit 'Melody D'Amor', and the surprisingly unvarnished lump of adolescent libido 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' is molded from. But if you allow yourself to really listen to a banjo version of Cohen's 'Nancy" or Tom Rapp's 'There Was A Man', you'll find the songs we always hoped were classics truly are. Bob Moss has brought us these old favorites fresh-scrubbed and ready to make us fall in love with them again. Be careful, though. If you've just come home from a bad date 'The Prisoner's Song' is enough to make you want to end it all from sheer lonliness. The trick is to keep listening. Bob will lead you safely through. By the time he tells you 'True Love Will Find You In The End' you'll be ready to be burned clean in the refiners fire that is 'Heartbreak Breakdown' and dance with 'The Holy Spirit', the preacher man, and all the rest of the drunks 'till dawn.

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