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sam moore - moooohieee! - em records - cd

Genre: Jazz

1. Mother Machree
2. Mighty Laka Rose
3. Old Black Joe
4. Annie Laurie
5. Dear Old Pal of Mine
6. I Dream I Dwelt in Marble Halls
7. Laughing Rag
8. My Old Hawaiian Home
9. Isle of Sweethearts
10. Laughing Rag (Alternate Version)
11. Mother Machree (Alternate Version)
12. Old Black Joe (Alternate Version)

2002 reissue in stock for the first time. Innovator of the octo-chorda (an open/alternate-tuned eight-string steel guitar), banjo, singing saw, inflated rubber balloon, and various other "household instruments," Floridian Samuel Pasco Moore (1887-1959) was a darling both in NYC and on the vaudeville circuit during his 1920s heyday.

While novelty acts suffered the pitfalls of most soft-soapers, Moore's sound is startling, heavenly, haunted Southern folk, Hawaiian and ragtime, the ghosts of Stephen Foster, and the stretching, endlessly splayed void that he carelessly toys with. Moooohieee!, his first compendium, on which he plays the octo-chorda and singing saw in duo settings, collects 13 of the man's unknown amount of sides. Only two others have seen digital release, and as far as we can tell, he had not a single LP moment.