 For years, SAM MOORE had been best-known as the trademark lead voice of legendary `60s soul duo Sam & Dave, responsible for such classic Pop and R&B hits as "Soul Man," "Hold On! I'm A-Comin'," "I Thank You," "Wrap It Up," "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby," "You Got Me Hummin'," "You Don't Know Like I Know," "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" and "Soothe Me." And that's just for openers... Now, SAM MOORE steps out of his own estimable shadows with Plenty Good Lovin': The Lost Solo Album, which was released via an EMI-distributed label on August 13, 2002 and received the only 4**** Star review all year in USA Today together with considerable other similar critical acclaim and raves. Astonishingly, this is SAM MOORE's first solo album. Equally astonishingly, this record was his first solo album languishing in the vaults at Atlantic Records' New York headquarters for 32 years. Most of the album's contents are covers; some familiar ("Shop Around," composed by Smokey Robinson for the Miracles; "Get Out Of My Life Woman," written by Allen Toussaint for Lee Dorsey; and the aforementioned Clay Hammond-authored "Part Time Love"); some more obscure (everyone who owns copies of the Detroit Emeralds' "If I Lose Your Love," the Soul Sisters' "I Can't Stand It," and Lee Michaels's "Heighty Hi" is too hip for the room and is hereby excused.), but all radically rearranged in a proto-funk/soul style that enabled MOORE to showcase his cinemascopic range, glass-shattering power, burnished tone, and quicksilver melisma across hitherto unexplored musical boundaries: gospel, jazz, blues, and country. Since then, MOORE has lent his inimitable vocal skills to such platinum discs as Bruce Springsteen's Human Touch, Don Henley's Building The Perfect Beast, and the Don Was & Tony Brown-produced Rhythm, Country & Blues concept LP, which featured MOORE's duet with the late Conway Twitty on "Rainy Night In Georgia" and was nominated for Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association, and TNN Music City News awards. As a recording artist, MOORE has been honored with everything from a Grammy--"Soul Man" took Best R&B Duo Performance in 1967; the disc and MOORE have also been inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame--to membership in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992). In May, 2003 SAM MOORE will be accepting a NARAS Governor's Award from the Miami Chapter of NARAS. He previously was awarded one of the coveted crystal sculptures from the Memphis Chapter.
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