01 – I'm Fixin' To 03:14
02 – Ramblin' On My Mind 07:00
03 – If You Have To Know 05:08
04 – Come And Go Blues 04:26
05 – Cakewalk Into Town 02:52
06 – You Made All My Blues Come True 03:38
07 – Memphis 02:59
08 – Maybellene 05:54
09 – Polk Salad Annie 03:18
10 – Big Boss Man 03:49

SONNY MOORMAN's newest recording presents his musical artistry the way many of his fans and friends love him most........as a unique blues soloist. Entitled "YOU MADE ALL MY BLUES COME TRUE", this ten song collection of self-penned songs coupled with some outside favorites and surprises was performed, produced and recorded in the studio by Sonny. Among the highlights are the title song by Sonny and his interpretations of Gregg Allman's "Come and Go Blues", Taj Mahal's "Cakewalk Into Town" and Jimmy Reed's huge hit "Big Bossman". For Sonny Moorman fans and all lovers of good blues this is a can't miss collection.

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1.  Wrong Side of Town
2.  Afterglow
3.  Nothing You Can Tell a Fool
4.  Mean Streak
5.  Lowdown
6.  Down in the Flood (Crash on the Levee)
7.  Open All Night
8.  Spark in the Dark
9.  Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
10. Mayfly
11. Jelly Roll
12. Jacky Ray

Tom Gray (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica) 
Mark Johnson  (guitar)
Franher Joseph (bass) 
Marlon Patton (drums)
Anna Kramer and Francine Reed (backing vocals)

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”. --- Rhys Williams, bluesblastmagazine.com

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01. Telegraph Road (4:40)
02. Crossroads Motel (4:54)
03. Texas Blues (5:27)
04. Last Call (6:47)
05. Up To My Neck In The Blues (5:33)
06. Old Slow Blues (5:48)
07. Remembering Cal (3:15)			play
08. House Of Thunder (4:30)			play
09. Sonny's Blues (5:51)
10. Black Magic Woman (6:36)

Musicians:
Sonny Moorman - guitar & vocals, 
Marc Hoffman - bass, 
Dave Fair- drums & vocals.

"I came to play" says Sonny Moorman. "I was raised in the bars my folks owned in and around Hamilton, OH and got to hear world class artists Lonnie Mack, Cal Collins, Dumpy Rice, Troy Seals, Wayne Perry, and a score of others up close and personal and learned one thing – all the hype in the world doesn't mean a thing unless you can back it up!" Those are words Sonny has lived by through the decades of roadhouses, bars, and juke joints from coast to coast. He backed it up gig after gig, night after night, and year after year until his own "hype" got too big to go unnoticed any longer. After a decade of playing rock bars in Michigan with a variety of bands and a five year "visit" to LA during which he graduated from Musician's Institute and played with "Z Deluxe" (Warren Zevon's 1982 tour band), Moorman returned to Ohio – and to the Blues. When Cincinnati Blues icon Big Ed Thompson suffered his debilitating stroke, Sonny was brought in to handle the guitar and vocal chores in Big Ed's band – the Cincinnati Blues All-Stars. The CBA's ETH Records release – Live at Burbank's chronicled the band during this period, and Living Blues Magazine was effusive in it's praise for Moorman's playing and singing. Not satisfied with the stylistic limitations of the All-Stars, Sonny moved on – to the Blues/Rock power trio format that is his vehicle to date. In 1994, Moorman and his band played the Memphis Cross-Cultural Music Exposition and got a recording deal with Sun Studio's 706 Records imprint. "Gary Hardy (then Sun Studio manager) came up to me before I walked off of the stage at Blues City and offered us a deal", says Sonny. Two 706 Records releases followed – L*I*V*E and Telegraph Road. At that point Moorman started what became a four-year tour with Easyriders Magazine playing their events and became a client of manager William Perkins (Allman Bros., SRV, Tinsley Ellis). Sonny recorded his next releases on Perkins' Atlas Records label, including the 2009 Just Plain Folks, Best Blues Album / Best Blues Song nominee – Crossroads Motel and Sonny's current release Live as Hell. In addition to the critical acclaim from these releases, Sonny is the 2007 International Blues Challenge Solo/Duo 2nd place, 2008 Solo/Duo "Blues Artist on the Rise" – Blues Festival Guide Magazine, and he and his band were finalists in the 2010 International Blues Challenge. Noted music Journalist Randy McNutt may have said it best, "He can flat-out play—and sing... Sounds have been passed from blues giant Freddy King to Lonnie Mack to Sonny Moorman."

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01 - Drowning On Dry Land 07:39
02 - Crossroads 05:45
03 - Born Under A Bad Sign 05:12         play
04 - Rock Me Baby 05:49
05 - Blue Jean Blues 05:15
06 - A Fool For Your Stockings 06:33
07 - CC Rider 06:41
08 - Old Slow Blues 05:34
09 - Cincinnati Shuffle 03:04            play
10 - Dust My Broom 05:12
11 - You Shook Me 04:54
12 - Have You Ever Loved A Woman 07:21
13 - Sonny's Blues 05:27

Personnel:
Sonny Moorman - guitar & vocals, 
Marc Hoffman - bass, 
Jamie Combs - drums & vocals.

Sonny Moorman is an American power blues guitarist from Cincinnati, Ohio. His style is sometimes compared to that of the Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Lonnie Mack, Gov't Mule, and occasionally Warren Haynes. He also owns a music lesson studio in Fairfield - OH, called Rock School.

The band was formed in 1994 and was signed to its first recording deal by 706 Records/Sun Studio at the 1994 Crossroads in Memphis. Since then the band has played 300 nights a year and has performed at regional festivals and clubs and toured the US with Easyriders Magazine, performing at all their events.

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