R. STEVIE MOORE – NEW COMPILATION ALBUM; STREAM ‘SORT OF WAY’ NOW

PERSONAL APPEAL RELEASED 5TH AUGUST ON CARE IN THE COMMUNITY RECORDINGS

“This is a great list of track choices! Finally, not the hits again, but hidden gem obscurities. I dig it lots….” – R. Stevie Moore

Personal Appeal at one both showcases why acclaim for R. Stevie Moore is several decades overdue, but in its body of material it actually goes back to way before the magazine covers and rise to cult iconicity that Moore can now justly enjoy. The 15 tracks have been taken from a period in between 1973 to 2001, an era during which he forged a deep connection – for better or worse – with New Jersey, after moving there from his native Nashville in 1978. Indeed, as one of his original band members and now respected writer Irwin Chusid says in the liner notes for this record, as Stevie left New Jersey to go back to Tennessee in 2010, his “life was crumbling: he was borderline homeless and penniless, with chronic physical maladies and a broken spirit. His NJ pals thought it would be the last time they’d see him.

The cuts on Personal Appeal all derive from Moore’s vast, largely un-catalogued well of material that he was creating and self-producing alongside his more ‘official’ output. The selection tells a story, not through comprehension (a truly exhaustive ‘Best Of’ on Stevie would clock in at days in length,) but through mood and representation. It veers through surf-rock, freak folk, touches on bluegrass and country – a nod to his formative years – and sprawls outwards to include orchestral flourishes and broader rock sounds; Moore’s writing has always been a mixed humour with melancholic sincerity, as indicated on track titles like ‘Why Can’t I Write A Hit?’ and ‘Pretend For A Second That You Are Very Intelligent.’

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