“The hardest working man in honky tonk” is back with more music.
If you’re in the habit of performing an amazing 300-plus dates a year, every single year without fail, you have every right to claim the title as the hardest working man in honky tonk. But the relentlessly rowdy Dallas Moore isn’t resting on his laurels — he’s too busy releasing new music and reconstituting old favorites.
Gems & Jams, his latest album now available wherever you purchase music, features a unique mix of newly written originals and newly arranged acoustic versions of deep catalogue cuts that have been out of print for years.
Moore, an outlaw country singer who makes his home in Cincinnati, is a long-haired, Harley-riding maverick who admits he was profoundly influenced by old Elvis Presley and Hank Williams 45’s while he was growing up. He’s known for playing a hard-rocking brand of country that is topped off by his gruff vocals, and reflects his reverence for Waylon Jennings and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
“Gems & Jams is my 18th album release,” Moore says, “and my first ever solo acoustic recording. It's about as raw and as real as it gets, being stripped down to just my voice and guitar performing the songs ‘live’ with no overdubs and minimal production.
“I've wanted to make this record for a long time and I feel like it’s really special in capturing this moment in time, combining my newly written songs with newly arranged deeper catalogue cuts, some of which I wrote 30 years ago. After all of these years and albums, this one definitely feels like coming back home to where it all began.”
Here is a video of Dallas performing “Sing My Song” at MM Studios.
And here is one of our favorite cuts from Gems & Jams, the defiantly swaggering breakup tune “Wastin’ Good Whiskey.”
