While it’s hard to find pure folk music in this day and age, it
\nis very easy to find forms of folk that have taken on
\ncharacteristics of other genres. When I first heard David Wilcox
\nsome years ago, I was blown away – but Wilcox is more of a folk-A\/C
\nblend, not pure folk. Loudon Wainwright III may be the closest
\nthing we have to a pure folk artist that I can think of off the top
\nof my head.<\/p>\n
Dave Moore reminds me a lot of Wilcox, only there’s less of an
\nadult-contemporary vein and more of a country feel to his music.
\nHis latest album,
\nBreaking Down To 3<\/i>, shows off an artist who seems to pull
\nhis punches when it comes to delivering a killer album. He gives us
\njust enough to prove that he’s well on his way to becoming a
\nlegend, but doesn’t seem to go past that level enough.<\/p>\n
Sounds like a bash against Moore? Believe me, it’s not. Moore’s
\ndown-home delivery and songwriting show that he’s got his finger on
\nthe pulse of this genre, and he knows how to work his songs into
\nsomething wonderful. The album’s opening track, “Mr. Music,” starts
\nto lead the listener down this path, but stops short of taking them
\non the full journey. He saves that magic for tracks like “Big
\nDrafty House,” “Let’s Take Our Time And Do It Right” and “Magic
\nDust”. If you find yourself going back to these tracks a lot,
\nyou’re not alone.<\/p>\n
What makes some of Moore’s music so magical is that he paints a
\npicture with words that allows you to see in your mind the scene
\nhe’s singing about. When he describes the setting in “Big Drafty
\nHouse,” you can almost see Moore walking through its rooms as he
\nsings about his memories of them. (In a way, I wish that he had
\ngone into even more detail than he did; I like having a vivid
\npicture in my mind.)<\/p>\n
The problem is that Moore doesn’t always take this road on
\nBreaking Down To 3<\/i>. Often, the music he creates is passable,
\nbut not awe-inspiring. And when you release an album that’s only
\nabout 36 minutes long, you would like to make sure you keep your
\naudience captivated. Unfortunately, he lost me on tracks like
\n“Midnight” and “Big Fool For You” – not that they’re bad numbers,
\nbut that they just don’t have any magic.<\/p>\n
“Down To The River,” the disc’s closer, plays the cruelest trick
\nof them all. Moore once again captures your attention and uses the
\nwords as oils to allow you to paint the action in your mind. Just
\nwhen you really get into the track and are ready for the next
\nmusical canvas, the disc ends. I’ll give him this: he saved the
\nbest for last.<\/p>\n
\nBreaking Down To 3<\/i> is not pure folk, and it’s far from pure
\ncountry, but it does create an interesting (if not a bit spotty)
\ntexture that listeners will find moments of pleasure in. What Moore
\nneeds to do now is to create an album that will eliminate the
\nmoments of distraction, and create a disc that will allow the
\nlistener to paint a virtual Louvr\u00e9 in their heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7592],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-39424","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-dave-moore","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39424"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}