One of R. Stevie Moore's occasional releases on an outside label (in this case, the Minnesota-based avant-garde imprint Innova, better known for releases by the likes of Harry Partch and Anthony Braxton), the 2003 compilation Nevertheless Optimistic is closest in style and intent to 1993's excellent Contact Risk. These 23 songs include many of Moore's poppiest and most accessible tunes, but by including tracks like "The Holocaust Parade" (the first half of which is a bewildering s   [ read more ]

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A full 40 years after Nashville high school student Robert Steven Moore received his first multi-track tape recorder from his session musician father Bob Moore, Meet the R. Stevie Moore is the highest profile release so far by the father of D.I.Y. home recording. Given the sheer volume of songs Moore has recorded in the intervening decades -- the online catalog at his website now lists over 400 CDs, all but a handful self-released -- no single anthology can cover the best of his work. Even limit   [ read more ]

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