Where You From?

Health is real American music. The weird, old music of drunken colonists, steel bit confederates, self-educated gentleman slaves and whiskey-stained maps followed upside-down. As long as parts of America remain wild this music will be around and bands like Health will play it. The germ of Health formed when Jonathan Moore, a young song-writer from Maryland, split from the green, green campus of Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. After a month or two of study and academia, Moore packed up his acoustic guitar and hitchhiked west and kept south, dropping down into Mexico. Busking, working odd jobs and keeping in motion he began adding to an already sizeable arsenal of American folk songs - those of Mexico and as he kept moving South, those of the people of South America. After an undetermined amount of time he returned with new songs, a new and deeper understanding of music and a very different outlook.