Sam Moss (from the album Blues Approved

​Sam Moss (from the album Blues Approved available on Schoolkids Records)
For up-and-coming Rock kids in North Carolina, Sam Moss was the go-to goal. Let’s Active and The db’s both give a nod to mentor Sam Moss while Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids remembers that ‘Sam was one of the hippest guys we knew – our Guru of Groove, the Maharishi of Mojo’. In 2020, with a lot of downtime, producer Chris Stamey discovered the forgotten masters of Blues Approved at the end of an old tape. The album, produced by Mitch Easter in 1977, receives a proper release, the first, via Schoolkids Records. Peter Holsapple of The db’s explains that ‘Sam Moss was an inspiration to so many of us; with the release of Blues Approved, now people everywhere will understand why’.
Soulful Blues fills the grooves of Blues Approved. Sam Moss stomps into Marvin Gaye’s “Ain’t That Peculiar”, presenting a version of Buck Owens “Act Naturally” as an echoey taped recording, and bonus cut “Pleasant Valley Sunday” gets the garage band makeover the original hit could have tapped in to. Jangly Funk, sweet organ breaths, and stop/start beats lay out the red carpet for Blues Approved, opening the album with “Rooster Blood”. A hefty Rock rhythm struts into Blues Approved via “To Those Still at Sea” as “Vida Blanche” cops every Rock nuance, hammering out a tribute to a memorable, though lost, woman while rampaging beats clear a course for “Nightflight to Berlin”. A rambling Blues cacophony arrives via contemporary Bluesman Mike Bloomfield’s “If You See My Baby” as confidence strides alongside the groove-based questions found in “Trying to Do Better”.
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