Daniel Martin Moore

Kentucky-based singer/songwriter Daniel Martin Moore had the rare fortune of securing a record deal through an unsolicited demo. On a whim, the Cold Spring native sent his home recordings to <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sub+Pop+Records%22">Sub Pop Records</a> in January 2007, resulting in a full-length debut for the label just one year later. Moore's amiable and engaging folk songs were lent weight in the studio by co-producer Joe Chiccarelli (<a href="spotify:artist:4LG4Bs1Gadht7TCrMytQUO">Shins</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4F84IBURUo98rz4r61KF70">White Stripes</a>), violin player <a href="spotify:artist:1hO7u836ntSuPofTfvjzr6">Petra Haden</a>, upright bass player Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and vocalist <a href="spotify:artist:0fqE57gXXTTqxXlFYVNG2u">Jesca Hoop</a>, all of whom appeared on 2008's Stray Age. He kept the collaborative spirit alive one year later by working with cellist <a href="spotify:artist:3Zzs4IqjV4b0yEFWqRv1si">Ben Sollee</a>, who had previously played alongside <a href="spotify:artist:40CfCtMnEXvvCKk8J1DniP">Abigail Washburn</a> in the folk supergroup Sparrow Quartet. Together, the two composed a number of songs inspired by the American South, and fellow Kentucky native and <a href="spotify:artist:43O3c6wewpzPKwVaGEEtBM">My Morning Jacket</a> frontman <a href="spotify:artist:1MhtYlJvUqfd2EgHSQTGK4">Jim James</a> soon joined the project as producer. The resulting album, Dear Companion, was released in 2010 under both musicians' names, followed in early 2011 by Moore's second solo effort, the gospel-influenced In the Cool of the Day. Farthest Field, a collaboration with Louisville-based singer/songwriter <a href="spotify:artist:4eR9k3I0YKCQUvvP2ojptw">Joan Shelley</a>, was released in 2012, followed in 2013 by Archives, Vol. 1, a collection of previously unreleased recordings, rare tracks, and collaborations. In early 2015 Moore helped to engineer <a href="spotify:artist:4eR9k3I0YKCQUvvP2ojptw">Shelley</a>'s lovely Over and Even LP, and later that year he issued a new studio album, the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sofa+Burn+Records%22">Sofa Burn Records</a>-issued Golden Age, which saw him once again working with <a href="spotify:artist:1MhtYlJvUqfd2EgHSQTGK4">Jim James</a>. Moore returned in 2017 with the full-length Turned Over to Dreams, which found him exploring lullabies and themes of sleep and wakefulness. ~ James Christopher Monger & Andrew Leahey, Rovi