FOR NASHVILLE GRAMMY award-winning post-modern blues maestro Kevin Roosevelt Moore aka Keb’ Mo’, the love for the blues began at home. His late mother, Lauvella Cole, stacked mostly jazz records in their Los Angeles home -- 12 to be precise -- and some of them stayed with Mo’ and his siblings. From jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne’s 1963 album Gloria Lynne At The Las Vegas Thunderbird (With The Herman Foster Trio) to pop crooner Johnny Mathis’ 1958 compilation Greatest Hits to jazz musician Jimmy Smith’s 1964 LP Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and more, Mo’ found plenty to listen to as a teenager taking to the guitar. “She opened the door for us to get into blues but there wasn’t some ongoing discussion about music in the house. Once the introduction was made, it was up to you to figure out if it was for you,” he says.
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