“Heartfelt intelligence and unselfconsciously sophisticated.”
Rolling Stone
...Mollie has long been known as a singer who doesn’t recognize a lot
of musical boundaries, and audiences love her fluid ability to make
herself at home in any genre while never sacrificing the essence of
the song she tackles. She is a singer at the very top of her game
who’s not afraid to take risks both vocally and in the material she
chooses. Mollie won a Grammy in 1997 for her participation in Sugar
Hill Records True Life Blues and is a member of the Colorado Music
Hall of Fame.
Rich, while known to produce some of the funniest onstage running
commentary, is also a powerhouse guitar player who can keep up
with O’Brien’s twists and turns, from blues to traditional folk to jazz to
rock and roll. He creates a band with just his guitar and, as a result,
theirs is an equal partnership.
“Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore are two national musical treasures. Combining blues and bluegrass (and everything in-between) with their soulful voices and stunning instrumental chops, Mollie and Rich are a constant source of joy and inspiration to me. They are truly among the best out there keeping American music alive and vital.”
Dave Alvin
Mollie O’Brien and her husband,
guitarist Rich Moore, have for
nearly 30 years quietly made it
their mission to find, mine and reinvent
other artists’ songs. They are geniuses at
the craft of interpretation in the way that
great singers, since the beginning of
popular American music, have made the songs of their era their
own. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of
American roots music they inhabit and show us they’re completely at
home with their musical selves.