PROMISING YOUNG TALENT STILL EXISTS ON THE Chicago blues circuit-at least if you know where to find it.If identifying the Windy City's next generation of blues standouts sounds like an intriguing quest, there's no need to look any further than the Jo [+]PROMISING YOUNG TALENT STILL EXISTS ON THE Chicago blues circuit-at least if you know where to find it.If identifying the Windy City's next generation of blues standouts sounds like an intriguing quest, there's no need to look any further than the Joe Moss Band.The albums title track 'Monster Love," vividly indicates Joe's musical leanings-cool horns, percolating organ, and a funk-stained groove frame Joe's attractive vocal and stinging guitar work."Need Your Love," "Mad Mad Mad," and "Lost My World" strike thoroughly infectious tempos, their slinky, dance-friendly bass lines recalling the years of onstage experience Moss acquired as one of Buddy Scott's Rib Tips inside fabled South Side joints such as Lee's Unleaded Blues and The Checkerboard Lounge.But when he's in the mood,Joe can grab hold of more traditional fare and wring it for all it's worth."Love My Baby" swings with horn -fueled impunity."So Scared" is a straight-out-of-the Delta stomper, and "Train Tracks" closes the set by proving conclusively that Joe doesn't need a band at all to get his point across.Chicago blues aficianados will want to keep a aclose eye on Joe Moss . The idiom needs all the help it can get as we hurtle into this new millennium with precious few legitamate young blues heroes to anticapate, and he's in a position to make a real contribution.----Bill Dahl JOE MOSS, "MONSTER LOVE" (212)
"His tendency to shape shift on these thirteen tracks isn't just meaningless excersise :Moss' Impeccable playing is incredibly SOULFULL,and his ebullience shines right through the speakers, delivering an Insane ass-shakin' rave up."-------Andria Lisle, LIVING BLUES #172 March-June 2004
Four stars---Christophe Mourot,SOULBAG #174 March 2004 French Press
Hardworking Chicago bandleader Joe Moss has come up with a monster Memphis groove, powered by three fine keyboardists, for his sophomore disc on West Dundee's 212 Records. The guitarist-vocalist, a graduate of Scotty & the Rib Tips and the brother of Chicago bluesman Nick Moss, makes a bold statement with these 11 originals and two covers (B.B. King's "Please Love Me" and Billy Myles' "Have You Ever Loved a Woman").
......., Moss has developed a funky soul-blues sound that's perfectly suited both to his voice and his supporting perso
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