Artist:     Sharon Kay Moore

Album:     Chapters

Label:     Self-released

Release Date:     3.10.19 

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Former Nashville artist by way of San Antonio, singer songwriter Sharon Kay Moore returned to music city to record her third CD. During the decade she resided here, she leaned to a jazzy cabaret style. She hasn’t completely closed the book on that form in Chapters, but has done mostly a 180 here in exploring her folkier side.

To help her do that, Ms. Moore called on tunesmith, Buddy Mondlock to produce this set. M&M have kept things very basic, with just her rhythm guitar, Tim Lorche’s violin and cello, Dana Cooper’s, harmonica, anchoring it all with the return of her first producer, Charlie Chadwick on downright-upright bass.

Chapters results in a sort of a country cabaret coloring book. The colors run the gamut from breezy blue skies on “A Good Days Sleep” to the midnight-blue torch song “Be Good” (co-written with blues guitarist Chris Clifton), all the way into the black of a nasty night on the Appalachian murder ballad, “ Petticoat Lace.” Moore closes her book with an a cappella intro to Hank Williams’ immortal “ I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”

What Sharon and her friends have brought to the table, in the chapters of her cookbook, might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but isn’t this why Whitmans makes their Sampler and Kelloggs their Variety Pack?

—Ken Spooner