Link to Kickstarter
Mose Jones stuff on Skydog's Elysum:
Mose Jones - Mose Knows (1974)
Mose Jones - Get Right (1974)
Mose Jones - Blackbird (1978)
Jimmy O'Neill - Popular Car (1984)
Bryan Cole interviews for Bands Of Dixie:
First interview
Second interview
Steve McRay :
"The moment Fate and Purpose walked into my life was towards the end of
2012...long time friend and Mose Jones alumni Bryan Cole passed, and
went on to join Randy Lewis and Jimmy O'Neill onstage in the next life.
While the feelings of losing my good friend were fresh, the master
recordings of the 4th Mose Jones album, which had recently found their
way into my hands, came forward to finally be released...these were the
final and last recordings of Mose Jones! And with them, the fruition and
legacy of our Southern Rock band Mose Jones.
I instinctively knew that this privilege had fallen on me and I called
on Mose Jones alumni Marvin Taylor. It is our honor to dedicate the
"Lost / Found" project in memory of Randy Lewis, Jimmy O'Neill, and
Bryan Cole (friends and original members of Mose Jones) and Tad Bush
(friend, engineer extraordinaire and co-producer on the Blackbird LP
plus "Lost /Found"), and Chuck Fowler (our friend and stage tech).
It is now our pleasure to offer these once lost and now found recordings
of the 4 men who were known as "Mose Jones" 1977 to 1980...and help us
fulfill the undeniable Mose Jones legacy while solidifying our place in
the history of Southern Rock bands.
I know that we had many devoted friends and fans that bought and
listened to our first RCA album BLACKBIRD - and we still have many
friends and fans that would love to hear these final Mose Jones
recordings, especially since many heard us play these songs live before
we broke up in 1980.
The "Lost / Found" album will take you back to a time when Mose Jones
was serving up their signature brand of Southern Rock, and adding their
own spicy flavors and funk to the organic rock songs of the day - a CD
to share with friends who never heard of us before...you know, and maybe
make some new friends and turn on some new listeners along the way.
WHAT IS ON THIS FINAL MOSE JONES RECORDING?
Listen to one of our songs that will be on the LOST / FOUND CD. Randy
Lewis on lead vocal (this is Randy doing what he used to do, belting out
a song!!) "Dead End Street" (Buie/Lewis/McRay)
Mose Jones features Marvin Taylor (Guitar), Randy Lewis (RIP)
(Vocals/Bass), Steve McRay (Vocals/Keyboards), and Chris Seymour
(Drums). The album was produced by Buddy Buie, engineered and
co-produced by Tad Bush (RIP) and Mose Jones. All songs written by Buddy
Buie, Randy Lewis, and Steve McRay as well as Marvin Taylor and Chris
Seymour. The album was recorded in analog at famed Studio One in
Doraville, GA, where Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 38 Special,
Journey, Joe South, Alicia Bridges, Stillwater, Crusados, and many more
artists recorded; except for the Muscle Shoals Horns, which were
recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound, Muscle Shoals, AL.
Eight songs plus one or two bonus tracks
Alien
Darlin' Come Back
Slip Away
Dead End Street
I'd Rather Live On The Moon
Working Girl
Coming Back For More
Instrumental Interlude
Plus, we have 8 bonus songs, all recorded in the same time period and
for this project. Some of these bonus songs are original and some are
cover songs. We will have these bonus tracks mixed and mastered, and
have them available in our REWARDS incentives area.
The songs reflect that 70's/80's time - infectious bass and drums
grooves with rock, disco, funk, and r & b style - fantastic guitar
solos, keyboards with Fender Rhodes and Hammond B3, and topping off with
soul inspired vocals and harmony laden choruses. Another bonus; we had
the Muscle Shoals Horns add their awesome horns on a few of the tracks -
plus, we called in our friend Randall Bramblett to play soprano sax on
one of our songs, "Darlin' Come Back"!
Rock history is filled with stories of recording executive's blunders.
No one knows what would have happened had fate taken a different
turn...RCA choose not to release Mose Jones' final album, aka "Lost /
Found". To their ears, there wasn't a top 40 "single" on the album. In
1981, the Atlanta Rhythm Section proved the recording executives wrong
when they recorded our song "Alien" (with our enthusiastic blessing) for
their Quinella album (Columbia). Alien was released as a 45 single and
made it's way to a top-40 hit, climbing to #29 on the Top-40 Billboard
charts and sending the song to #16 in Adult Contemporary Billboard
charts
http://www.billboard.com/artist/280161/atlanta-rhythm-section/chart.
We've always been very grateful to the Atlanta Rhythm Section for coming
to us and taking our song to the top 40. Now, we'd like for you to hear
it the way we played it!
