Suitcase

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EDITORIAL REVIEWS SUITCASE is the highly anticipated new studio album from three-time Grammy winning artist Keb Mo. Produced by Keb Mo and long time collaborator John Porter and recorded at the legendary Shangri La Studios in Malibu, CA, SUITCASE is Keb's first album of original music since 2004's Grammy winning release, KEEP IT SIMPLE. AMAZON.COM The simple blues-informed pop charms of L.A. songwriter Kevin Moore remain unchanged on his eighth album. All twelve of these songs about romance and its triumphs and failures go down easy, thanks to his unhurried and unmannered singing, and arrangements that run slow and spare. That openness allows Moore's slide playing, perfected on the porch of Mississippi delta bluesman Eugene Powell, to add subtle, pretty decoration to tunes like "Your Love" and "Eileen." He's got a sympathetic cohort in John Porter, who also produced Moore's debut album and is especially adept at capturing the sounds of the acoustic instruments that dominate this disc. After pursuing all the twists and turns of love and its baggage on Suitcase, Moore ends the CD with "Life Is Beautiful," an ode to the pure and basic joys of life as a couple, reflected in a blithely primal trio accompaniment of crisp acoustic guitar, mandolin, and drums. --Ted Drozdowski