The Door Keb' Mo'

• 1 The Door 03:56
• 2 Loola Loo 04:35
• 3 It Hurts Me Too 05:26
• 4 Come On Back 04:57
• 5 Stand Up (And Be Strong) 02:26
• 6 Anyway 03:36
• 7 Don't You Know 04:20
• 8 It's All Coming Back 04:46
• 9 Gimme What You Got 04:11
• 10 Mommy Can I Come Home 03:10
• 11 Change 04:16
• 12 The Beginning 03:43
• Total Runtime 49:22

Info for The Door

Soul Journey (2003) is the fourth studio album by Gillian Welch. As with all of her previous releases, it is a collaboration with David Rawlings. In their preceding work, Welch and Rawlings had experimented with using only acoustic guitar and banjo as accompaniment. With Soul Journey, they return to the more diverse and modern instrumentation of their early work, employing electric guitar, organ, and drums.

The album uses these musical elements to drive home a living-room, lazy-summertime jam-session feel. The album's opener "Look at Miss Ohio" evolves into a tough rocker, and the album culminates in the relative cacophony of "Wrecking Ball". Between these bookends is a mixed bag of traditional Folk and Blues songs like "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor", "I Had a Real Good Mother and Father", "Lowlands" and "No One Knows My Name".

At the time of release, the album topped the Billboard Top Heatseekers. This album is finally available on HighResAudio for the first time!

Keb' Mo’, guitars, banjo, harmonica, vocals Jim Keltner, drums Steve Jordan, drums Sergio Gonzalez, percussion, drums Reggie McBride, bass Scarlet Rivera, violin Greg Leisz, pedal steel guitar Greg Phillinganes, synthesizer, pedal steel guitar, keyboards David Mann, saxophones Lawrence Feldman, saxophones Thomas Tally, viola Gerri Sutyak, cello Leon Ware, backup vocals Dennis Collins, backup vocals Marva Hicks, backup vocals

Recorded & mixed at Groove Masters, Santa Monica, CA; Stu Stu Studio, Manna Del Ray, CA; The Secret Studio, NY, NY; Right Track Recording Studio, New York
Engineered by Dave O'Donnell, Hans Leibert, Mark Johnson
Produced by Russ Titelman

Digitally remastered

Keb' Mo'
Over the past two decades, award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and contemporary blues artist, Keb’ Mo’, has cultivated a reputation as a modern master of American roots music through the understated excellence of his live and studio performances. His recent project – TajMo– is a cross-generational collaboration with legendary blues musician Taj Mahal which merges the two artists’ distinctive voices and guitar styles. The project, which won the 2018 GRAMMY for “Best Contemporary Blues Album,” features guest appearances by Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Lizz Wright and Bonnie Raitt. B.B. King, Buddy Guy, the Dixie Chicks, Joe Cocker, Robert Palmer and Tom Jones have all recorded his songs. His guitar playing has inspired leading instrument makers Gibson Brands to issue the Keb’ Mo’ Signature Bluesmaster acoustic guitar and Martin Guitars to issue the HD-28KM Keb’ Mo’ Limited Edition Signature model.

He has collaborated with a host of artists, including Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Brown, Cassandra Wilson, Buddy Guy, Amy Grant, Solomon Burke, Little Milton and many others. Keb’ also wrote and performed the theme song for the smash sitcom, “Mike & Molly,” and was music composer for TV’s “Memphis Beat.” He has also been featured in TV and film, playing Robert Johnson in the 1998 documentary “Can’t You Hear The Wind Howl,” appeared three times on the television series, “Touched By an Angel,” and was the ghostly bluesman Possum in John Sayles’ 2007 movie, “Honeydripper.” Keb’ is very involved with the Playing For Change movement, which was created to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music. He has been involved with Playing For Change since its inception and has been featured in many related videos and events.

“It felt like everything in my life was breaking down,” the five-time Grammy-winner reflects. “My health, my relationship, my whole world. The only way I knew how to respond was to break the music down, too.”

Born and raised in Compton, Keb’ took the first steps of his remarkable journey at the age of 21, when he landed a gig playing with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach. For the next 20 years, he would work primarily behind the scenes, establishing himself as a respected guitarist, songwriter, and arranger with a unique gift for linking the past and present in his evocative playing and singing. Though he recorded a one-off album in 1980 under his birth name, Kevin Moore, it wasn’t until 1994 that he would introduce the world to Keb’ Mo’ with the release of his widely acclaimed self-titled debut. Critics were quick to take note of his modern, genre-bending take on old school sounds, and two years later, Keb’ garnered his first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album with Just Like You. In the decades to come, he would go on to take home four more Grammy Awards; top the Billboard Blues Chart eight times; perform everywhere from Carnegie Hall to The White House; collaborate with the likes of Taj Mahal, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, The Chicks, and Lyle Lovett; have his compositions recorded and sampled by artists as diverse as B.B. King, Zac Brown, and BTS; release signature guitars with both Gibson and Martin; compose music for television series like Mike and Molly, Memphis Beat, B Positive, and Martha Stewart Living; appear as himself in Martin Scorcese’s The Blues and Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing; flex his acting chops playing Robert Johnson in the 1998 documentary Can’t You Hear The Wind Howl, Possum in John Sayles’ Honeydripper, and Howlin’ Wolf in CMT’s Sun Records; and earn the Americana Music Association’s 2021 award for Lifetime Achievement in Performance.

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