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Artist | Katy Moffatt
Title | Walkin' On The Moon
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 41:16
Label | Rounder Records Store | 1989
Catalog | PHILO CD PH 1128 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 205 kbps Size | 63.89 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Carnival Man 3:40
02. Walkin' On The Moon 3:40
03. I'm Sorry Darlin' 3:08
04. If Anything Comes To Mind 3:05
05. Papacita (Mama Rita) 4:28
06. Mr. Banker 4:11
07. Borderline 4:06
08. Fire In Your Eyes 3:16
09. I'll Take The Blame 3:10
10. Hard Times On Easy Street 5:08
11. I Know The Difference Now 3:24
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Katy Moffatt has never broken through to the country mainstream, but she
has earned a substantial cult following among roots-music fans and plenty
of critical respect for her blend of country, folk, rock, pop, and blues.
The younger sister of singer/songwriter Hugh Moffatt, she was born in Fort
Worth, TX, in 1950 and first performed in local coffeehouses. She attended
St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM, and while there, she appeared in the
1971 film Billy Jack. She subsequently dropped out of school and moved to
Corpus Christi, TX, where she worked at a television station and sang with
a local blues band.
Unfortunately, the station was destroyed by a hurricane, and she moved
first to Austin and then to Colorado, where she found a regular gig singing
on a Denver radio station in 1973. That helped her land a deal with
Columbia in 1975, and she issued two country-rock albums for the label:
1976's Katy and 1978's Kissin' in the California Sun, the latter of which
featured members of the Allman Brothers. Neither broke her commercially,
and she made ends meet as a backup singer, working with the likes of Willie
Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Poco, John Prine, Tanya Tucker, and Lynn Anderson,
among others.
By the time Moffatt had recorded this debut acoustic record for Rounder's
Philo label with guitarist Andrew Hardin in 1989, she had issued two albums
of trailblazing country-rock on Columbia, a handful of singles for Permian,
and backup vocal gigs for everyone from Jimmy Buffett to Tanya Tucker. Away
from the production slickness of Billy Sherrill, Moffatt strips down her
sound; she asserts herself as a songwriter. The tracks "Carnival Man",
"Fire In Your Eyes", and "I'm Sorry Darlin" prove beyond a shadow of a
doubt that Moffatt is more than just a pretty voice. Her writing cuts to
the bone; the songs come from the heart of emotion more than just clever
ideas.
In addition, the songs she wrote with Tom Russell, which include the titles
"If Anything Comes To Mind" and "I'll Take The Blame", transcend country
altogether and become storyteller's songs that would work in any genre.
Given Hardin's aesthetically beautiful guitar playing and Moffatt's
restraint, the essence of these songs just bubbles up and out of the
grooves. But the true evidence of Moffatt's mastery of a lyric and her
ability to convey the grain of truth in its construction is on "Mr.
Banker", by members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their harsh guitar-driven blues
becomes a country plea with the Delta blues framing the entire proceeding
and accented by Hardin's tasty runs.
For all those who came to the game late with Moffatt, "Walkin' On The
Moon", which boasts one of the most tender title tracks in country music's
long history, is a way of diving headlong into the mystery that is Katy
Moffatt.
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