Saturday 22 June 2013

Dallas Moore Q&A

Your name: 
Dallas Moore.

Where are you from? 
Cincinnati, Ohio, originally and currently residing in Morgan Township, Ohio, USA.

Name of band: 
Dallas Moore Band.

Who else is in your band? 
Reverend Bob Rutherford on bass, Chuck Morpurgo on guitar, Rocky Parnell on drums and Mike Owens on harmonica. 

How would you describe yourselves? 
Outlaw county and redneck rock n roll.

Who are your main influences musically? 
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams, The Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, Merle Haggard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimmy Martin and The Marshall Tucker Band. 

What do you hope to achieve in music? 
To reach as many people as we can around the world with our stories, songs and jams.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why? 
Having our video for "Crazy Again" remain at #1 on the Country Video Chart at www.yallwire.com for a grand total of 54 weeks. The video and song were recorded on the 61st Anniversary of Hank Williams' legendary recording session at Historic Herzog Studio's in Cincinnati, OH. We recorded the Live Album "Hank To Thank" standing in the very spot where Hank recorded 6 of his timeless classics 61 years before. We were joined on the album and in the "Crazy Again" video by our Godfather Jody Payne, famed guitarist for Willie Nelson and Family.

And what’s the moment you want to forget? 
I can't really remember any. I reckon I already forgot 'em!

If you could choose just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why? 
"Blessed Be The Bad Ones" title track of our current album release on Sol Records. The song encompasses elements of all of our influences stirred in together into one big gumbo of Dallas Moore Band music and jams.

Where can we listen to it? 
Both song and video are posted on our official website www.dallasmoore.com and also on our Dallas Moore Band CMT Artist Page.
Where can we find out more about your music? 
You can find our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/thedallasmooreband, follow @dallasmoore on Twitter, Official Site at www.dallasmoore.com, click HERE to download "Blessed Be The Bad Ones" on iTunes, featured in the 2013 Book "Outlaws Still At Large" by author Neil Alexander Hamilton featured along with Shooter Jennings, Blackberry Smoke, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and many more (http://outlawsstillatlarge.com), and also our Cd's and digital downloads are available worldwide at www.amazon.com.

Anything else you’d like to say about your band that I forgot to ask? 
We are ALWAYS on tour playing over 300 dates a year. Catch us live and loud when we come to a town near you!


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