01. Rock and Roll Girl
02. The Day Before Tomorrow
03. Just Lucky I Guess
04. Coolest Fools
05. Refugee
06. Mad About You
07. Death Letter
08. 21st Century Man
09. Cabbagetown Shuffle
10. Sing Together

Tom Gray - Vocals, lap steel guitar, guitar, keyboards, and harmonica on Track 9.
Mark Johnson - Vocals, guitar, mandoguitar, and lap steel on Track 1.
Franher Joseph - Vocals, bass, and upright bass on Tracks 3 and 9.
Marlon Patton - Drums and percussion.
Kyshona Armstrong - Vocals on Tracks 1, 2, 5 and 10.
Susannah Masarie - Vocals on Tracks 1, 2 and 4.
Jon Liebman - Harmonica on Track 7.

Atlanta’s sultans of slide guitar; the blues and roots rock quartet Delta Moon return with their eighth studio album Cabbagetown, released March 17, 2017, on Jumping Jack Records. The follow-up to the award-winning 2015 release, Low Down, named one of the best blues records of the year by both Downbeat and Blues Music Magazine. The new album features nine original compositions and a lively cover of Son House’s timeless classic, “Death Letter“.

Award-winning songwriter and lead vocalist Tom Gray once again penned most of the new Delta Moon tracks, showcasing great grooves, thought provoking lyrics, infectious hooks, sweet slide guitar work and mountains of superb tone created at the legendary Bakos Amp Works.

The opening track “Rock and Roll Girl“, is an autobiography of roots rock dreams with a Springsteen like appeal. The free flowing acoustic driven groove of “The Day Before Tomorrow,” has an ultra-optimistic sensibility and alt country flair. Franher Joseph moves to Upright Bass for the mostly acoustic introspective tome “Just Lucky I Guess,” and Gray picks some sublime lap steel guitar on the happy go lucky love song “Coolest Fools.” Delta Moon are not ones to shy away from hot topics, taking on the viewpoint of the silent victims of the world’s problems on the provocative track “Refuge” recanting their plight in multi voiced narratives over a soulful groove. Gray switches to electric piano for the driving “Mad About You, “and drummer Marlon Patton lays down a phat hip hop beat to open the ultra-modern reading of “Death Letter,” with Jon Liebman adding greasy Blues Harmonica, sparing with Gray’s lap Steel. Another deep groove is at the center of Gray’s satirical look at our gadget obsessed world on “21st Century Man,” while the back-porch blues that inspired the album title “Cabbagetown Shuffle,” is a lively duel between Gray on Hawaiian guitar and Mark Johnson on Bottleneck slide. Grey leaves us with a lesson about our shared humanity on the gently rocking “Sing Together,” with Johnson preaching to the choir with more of his glistening slide guitar.---Rick Bowen, nodepression.com

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1.Wrong Side of Town	 03:55
2.Afterglow 	03:54
3.Nothing You Can Tell a Fool 	03:43
4.Mean Streak 		05:27
5.Lowdown 	03:54
6.Down in the Flood (Crash on the Levee) 	04:14
7.Open All Night	 02:25
8.Spark in the Dark	03:22
9.Hard Time Killing Floor Blues 	04:00
10.Mayfly 	03:14
11.Jelly Roll 	02:59
12.Jacky Ray 	03:57

Tom Gray - Lead vocals, lap steel, guitar, keyboards, harmonica.
Mark Johnson - Guitar, backing vocals.
Franher Joseph - Bass, backing vocals.
Marlon Patton - Drums, percussion.

Anna Kramer - Backing vocals, Tracks 1, 10 and 12.
Francine Reed - Backing vocals, Tracks 1, 3 and 6.

Some records just don’t want to come off your music system, such is their demand to be played, and Delta Moon’s latest release, Low Down, is one of them. The band packs 12 songs into just three-quarters of an hour, but the result is an early contender for some “Best Of” awards at the end of the year.

Although Low Down is the band’s 10th album, they have yet to achieve the widespread acclaim their talents deserve. This release may change that. Featuring nine originals by lead vocalist Tom Gray together with three covers by Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Skip James, the album is a scorching brew of traditional blues-rock, but with the emphasis on the blues rather than the rock, helped in no small part by the wonderful double slide guitar attack of Tom Gray and Mark Johnson.

Opening with “Wrong Side Of Town”, which has hints of Sonny Landreth in its Louisiana-stylings, Tom Gray sings in his warm, whispery, whiskey-aged voice: “Across the tracks, you like to put it down. Welcome back to the wrong side of town.” In fact, the entire album sounds like the best that can possibly come from the wrong side of town. Gray’s lyrics paint vivid images of life in the shadows and on the edge. In “Mean Streak”, he sings “Close shave, could have been dead, had denial in my head and a fist down in my gut. You didn’t kill me, but you sure tried, and you still ain’t giving up” before the defiant chorus of “You got a mean streak, running through and through. But I got a mean streak, I’m just as mean as you.”

“Afterglow” again has rhythmic hints of the Big Easy, before the jungle drums and reverb-laden bottleneck guitars (subtly hinting at the slide melody of Muddy’s “Can’t Be Satisfied”) of “Nothing You Can Tell A Fool” lead to a descending chord chorus in which Gray warns: “No matter how you tell it, no matter what you do, there is nothing, nothing you can tell a fool.”

Gray’s intelligent, well-constructed songs sit easily alongside covers of Tom Wait’s “Low Down”, Dylan’s “Down In The Flood” and Skip James’ “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues”. The latter track, a notoriously difficult song to cover, is here given a modern-day re-interpretation in which the ethereal, other-worldly tone of the original is replaced with a melancholy resignation and haunting multi-voiced chants. It is perhaps the most striking song amongst many on the album.

Other highlights include the gorgeous backing vocals and soaring slide guitar on “Mayfly”, taking the listener on a summer escape “like a moment out of history” and the dual-slide guitars in “Spark In The Dark” and “Open All Night”. --- bluesblastmagazine.com

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1.You Don't Have to Go 04:14
2.Higher Ground 04:13
3.Must Be Lonely 03:52
4.Midnight Train 03:41
5.Put Your Arms Around Me 03:58
6.Low Country Boil 04:07
7.Officer 04:12
8.Blue Highway 03:45
9.Tiltawhirl 04:17
10.Let Tomorrow Be 03:41
11.Lovin' in the Moonlight 03:21

Scott Callison - drums, 
Tom Gray - vocals, lap steel, keyboards, 
Mark Johnson - bottleneck guitar, 
Kristin Markiton - vocals, hand percussion, 
Phil Skipper - bass.

From the first chords of the slide guitars, "Howlin'" delivers the unmistakable sound of Delta Moon. This award-winning band has its own instantly recognizable style: swampy, southern-soaked, delta-billy roots music with an Americana soul feeling. After two changes in 2005 -- Kristin Markiton joining as vocalist and Phil Skipper plugging in on bass -- Delta Moon has honed its groove and come together as a tight unit. The band's focus and confidence show in the 9 original tracks and 2 well-chosen covers on "Howlin'." ---Editorial Review

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   1. Clear Blue Flame
   2. Blind Spot
   3. Mony Changes Everything
   4. Trouble In The Home
   5. Jessie Mae
   6. Cool Your Jeys
   7. Life's A Song
   8. Stranger In My Hometown
   9. Lap Dog
  10. I'm A Witness
  11. You Done Told Everybody

Tom Gray and Mark Johnson first met in an Atlanta music store. When Tom tried to sell Mark a Dobro guitar out of the trunk of his car, the girl with Mark started whispering, “Let’s get out of here.” Mark didn’t buy the guitar, but he and Tom exchanged phone numbers. Soon the two were getting together regularly, Tom playing lap steel and Mark on bottleneck slide guitar.

At first, neither gave a thought to the idea of forming a double slide guitar band. Then Mark saw Ry Cooder and David Lindley perform together at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. “It was like a light came on over my head,” Mark said. “I thought, that’s what Tom and I do.” The two, along with singer Gina Leigh and a rotating cast of drummers and bassists, formed Delta Moon. Their idea was to weave the two slide guitars into one big sound, in the tradition of great two-guitar bands like the Rolling Stones, the Allman Brothers, and the early Fleetwood Mac.

Playing clubs and festivals around Atlanta and the South,the band quickly gathered a wall full of local “best” awards. After Delta Moon won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2003, the band widened its travel to include the western US, Canada, and Europe. Gina Leigh left the band in 2004, and Kristin Markiton sang with the band for the next year and half. Then Delta Moon decided to continue as a quartet with Tom Gray writing and singing all the lyrics.

“I didn’t start out to sing lead in this band,” says Tom, “but like kudzu I’ve taken over.” Actually, he has plenty of experience fronting a band. In his pre-lap-steel days Tom was songwriter, vocalist, and keyboard player for a group called The Brains that recorded two albums on Mercury. His songs have been recorded by Cyndi Lauper, Manfred Mann, Carlene Carter and many other artists. Since becoming the band's sole front person, Tom has felt freer to cut loose on stage. "I can step wherever I want now," he says. "Mine are the only toes up here."

Released in August 2007, Clear Blue Flame features ten original songs and one obscure cover, showing Delta Moon’s unique sound focused like never before. Tom brings his songwriting credentials to the table with a fresh take on his biggest hit, “Money Changes Everything.” New songs like “Blind Spot,” “Cool Your Jets” and “Life’s a Song,” show that his songwriting has lost none of its edge. The final cut, a classic Mississippi Fred McDowell song called “You Done Told Everybody,” demonstrates the genesis of Delta Moon with a recording of Mark and Tom playing acoustic slide guitars and stomping their feet in an impromptu session.

Other players on Clear Blue Flame include Tyler Greenwell on drums, Ted Pecchio on bass, Chris Long on bass and backing vocals, and Zebulon Bowles adding fiddle on “Money Changes Everything.” ---cdbaby.com

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   1. That's It, You're Done
   2. All She Wrote
   3. I'll Die Trying
   4. Nightclubbing
   5. Shake Something Loose
   6. Stone Cold Man
   7. Poplar Grove
   8. County Farm
   9. Goin' Down South
  10. Dreams Come Real
  11. Nobody Knows (Bonus Track)

Musicians:
Scott Callison: drums 
Tom Gray: vocals, steel guitar, piano, dulcimer 
Mark Johnson: guitars, mando guitar 
Gina Leigh: vocals 
Jon Schwenke: bass

With their twin-lead slide guitar approach, it would be easy, even natural, for Atlanta quintet Delta Moon to sling out an approximation of the screaming, dueling Lynyrd Skynyrd Southern rock boogie sound. But with their roots and influences in classic R&B, the band thankfully steers clear of anything so obvious, preferring to wallow in a far more greasy, subtle, and creative blend of rock, blues, folk and swamp. Lead vocalist Gina Leigh's tough, sexy voice is perfect slithering around Vassar Clements' fiddle on "Stone Cold Man" as both guitarists ride a groove that is sure-footed yet snake-like. Guitarist Tom Gray's grits-and-gravy moan takes lead on the sensual "Dreams Come Real" as Leigh joins him on the chorus. The band covers country bluesmen J.B. Lenoir, R.L. Burnside and, in one of the album's most gripping performances, even the David Bowie/Iggy Pop "Nightclubbing." But they twist and rearrange the songs to make them sound like Delta Moon tunes, a tricky yet seemingly effortless task that shouldn't be taken for granted. Gray's and Mark Johnson's guitars never step over each other, but play in unison, sometimes gradually splitting apart in a call and response trade-off similar to gospel vocal groups. "Shake Something Loose," a co-write with Athens, GA neighbor Randall Bramblett, sets up a crisp, mid-tempo vibe with Leigh vamping the lyrics against the multitalented Gray's piano making the air as charged as the song's emotions. This album shows them gradually moving further from blues to incorporate elements of pop and rock, yet Delta Moon never goes commercial and retains their individuality by crafting their finest release yet. As it's title infers, Goin' Down South is a perfect example of contemporary Southern roots music at its most affecting. ---Hal Horowitz, allmusic.com

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   1. You Don't Have To Go
   2. Edna Mae
   3. Officer
   4. Can't Let Go
   5. I'm Crying
   6. Blue Highway
   7. Goin' Down South
   8. Somebody Been Usin' That Thing
   9. Let Tomorrow Be
  10. Shine The Light
  11. Shakem On Down
  12. Like My Lover Can
  13. Must Be Lonely
  14. Meantown

Delta Moon has passed through several phases with respect to membership, but its essential nature remains the same. Perched in the rustic brush between dusty twang, muddy blues and simmering rock, each of its three studio albums have brought forth a new iteration, including the new one, Howlin'.

Delta Moon formed in the '90s, long after Gray had made his name with the Brains (penning the cynical single, "Money Changes Everything," later covered by Cyndi Lauper). Gray met Mark Johnson while living in the Inman Park area, and gave him lessons in slide guitar.

As lessons became jam sessions, they recruited neighbor Gina Leigh to sing, and worked with a series of rhythm players before settling on drummer Scott Callison and bassist John Schwenke after Delta Moon's 2002 self-titled debut. As the band's profile grew, Leigh felt the pressure of more touring.

"There was a real conflict and I think her heart was really in her day job," says Gray. "It got to where this was becoming more than a part-time thing. She had to jump one way or another."

After attempting briefly to go forward as a four-piece, they tabbed Kristin Markiton to replace Leigh, and, after some tinkering with the sound, went into the studio with producer Jeff Bakos and new bassist Phil Skipper. According to Gray, Markiton's voice is a little higher than Leigh's, offering a sweetness reminiscent of Emmylou Harris. Her addition's taken the quintet a little closer to a Memphis sound.

"When we're singing together there's a lot of contrast, which is an important part of what we are trying to do," Gray says. "Plus, having a woman around makes for a whole different flavor. Put one in a van and the men act a little more civilized." ---Chris Parker, clatl.com

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01 - Hellbound Train
02 - Room 429
03 - Lonely
04 - Get Gone
05 - True Love Lies
06 - You Got To Move
07 - Stuck In Carolina
08 - Ain't No Train
09 - Ghost In My Guitar
10 - Take The Back Road Home
11 - Plantation Song

Personnel:
Tom Gray (vocals, lap steel guitar, keyboards); 
Mark Johnson (guitar); 
Darren Stanley (drums, percussion); 
Franher Joseph (background vocals).

Atlanta's swamp-blues kings add another notch to their belt of tough, Southern, slide guitar-dominated blues/roots rock with this, the band's fifth studio release. Although little has changed musically since slimming to a quartet, frontmen/guitarists Tom Gray and Mark Johnson's songs have continued to refine their sense of groove, and Gray is increasingly comfortable with his lead vocal status. The group's confident dynamics and the combination of Gray's homey sandpaper voice with the intertwining guitar leads, perhaps best exemplified by "Stuck in Carolina"'s low-boil funk, keeps getting more incisive. Although there are plenty of solos, they are in service to the tunes, not vice-versa, surely an anomaly for acts that boast the sheer firepower of these two guitarists. When Gray nails a grimy, rust-colored riff as he does on the opening title track or the obsessive "Lonely," it seems like something ZZ Top would kill for in that band's earlier days. Add the dueling/overlapping guitar lines and the result is a gritty, distinctive attack that is driving when necessary, yet subtle enough to keep the spotlight on Gray's detailed, occasional story-song lyrics that often find him or his protagonists down but not quite out somewhere in the South. Country overtones inform "Take the Back Road Home," altering the approach somewhat, similar to the haunting unplugged, acoustic ballad "Plantation Song" that closes the disc. It's a sporadically spooky, even ghostly vibe, a point Gray articulates on "Ghost in My Guitar" with a distinct Dr. John feel enhanced by bubbling congas. Johnson's six-string banjo and the occasional guest saxophone also shows that though Delta Moon isn't straying from its core sound, there are plenty of ways to tweak the basics without changing the result. Even after five albums over the past eight years, it seems that the group is just starting to explore the possibilities inherent in their blues-based Southern genre. It's a style that could be confining, but in their hands, never is. ---Hal Horowitz, Rovi

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01. Clear Blue Flame
02. Trouble In The Home
03. Jessie Mae
04. Cool Your Jets
05. Life’s A Song
06. Lap Dog
07. I’m A Witness
08. You Don’t Have To Go
09. Must Be Lonely
10. Midnight Train
11. Blue Highway
12. I Want To Go
13. Dreams Come Real
14. Goin’ Down South
15. Preachin’ Blues
16. House Of Dolls
17. Shake ‘Em Down
18. Fooling Around

At first, neither Tom nor Mark gave a thought to the idea of forming a double slide guitar band, but just kept swapping licks in the living room. Then Mark saw Ry Cooder and David Lindley perform together at the New Orleans Jazz Festival. He immediately thought, "That's what Tom and I do." The two, along with singer Gina Leigh and a rotating cast of drummers and bassists, formed Delta Moon. Their idea was to weave the two slide guitars into one big sound, in the tradition of great two-guitar bands like the Rolling Stones, the Allman Brothers, and early Fleetwood Mac. --- jayfan.com

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