Reaching for the Blues

VVMusic have recently completed mastering work on "Reaching for the Blues", the second album by Sam Ray Moore (aka Ragtime Sam). Sam is currently on a summer tour of the states. Having finished his New York dates, Sam is currently in Chicago playing the "Windy Cities" famous Blues and Jazz clubs before heading down to the blues heartland of New Orleans and Memphis.

Ragtime Sam is an English solo acoustic artist well practiced in a vast range of traditional idioms. His influences draw heavily from the music of the 1920’s and 30’s in the Southern States of America. Sam has amassed a large repertoire of Ragtime and Delta Blues music from this period. The influence of such musicians as the Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Blake and Ry Cooder have remainded the backbone of Sam’s sound, also drawing on more contempary artists such as Bob Brozman and Cassandra Wilson.

Sam adds his own modern spin on the way that blues and ragtime is played whilst maintaining a strong link with the musics roots. Sam is known for his passionate, heartfelt and eclectic live performances. Donning a full suit and sporting a trilby hat (a style reminiscent of Robert Johnson) Sam has been busy gigging throughout the northwest of England, London, Paris and now the US.