BBC Article on Skip Moses

I just found an interesting article on Skip Moses, which explains a lot to us about him, who he is, and what else he does. Skip Moses is really Jonny Black from rising band LaFaro, which is interesting because we alreay know a bit about LaFaro who is also one of Small Town America's bands.

Here's the article, and a link can be found below too.

Jonny Black is an occasional legend who plays with LaFaro and helms a fascinating side project called Skip Moses. He was once a hired guitar for Martin Corrigan and he seems to like the process best when its veering on the edge of irreversible meltdown.

With LaFaro, he uncoils the great riff and makes a peculiar lyric into some towering notion of folly, In this respect he has inherited some of the Andy Cairns dynamic. He cultivates the stories of the local eccentric, the trainee psychopath, and he imagines them at their worst. Like the kid who survived a house fire but was fused onto a synthetic settee. Or he pictures the scenes in some old dive bar and expands the vision into a horrendous vision to out-brutalise Brueghel.

Then again, his Skip Moses skin gives Jonny the chance to revisit Elizabeth Cotton and Freight Train, a meditation on death and the rumble of the Number Nine engine. He plays his Mississippi delta blues with grace and feeling and you sometimes wish that he was more outwardly ambitious and ruthless. But then again, that was never the way of LaFaro and it may not prevent Skip Moses from leading us into a land flowing with milk and Mudhoney.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stuartbailie/2010/03/heres_jonny.shtml