Daniel Martin Moore is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer.

Musical career

After leaving the Peace Corps, Moore mailed

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a four-song unsolicited demo in January 2007 and was signed by the label to record his first album ''Stray Age'', which was co-produced by

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. In 2010, Moore joined with fellow Kentucky musician Ben Sollee to record an album titled ''Dear Companion'', which was produced by and also features

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and Monsters of Folk. ''Dear Companion'' aims to create awareness of the problems surrounding mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, with Moore and Sollee donating their artist profits from the album to

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in support of the organization's national campaign to end

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. In 2010, Moore toured with Ben Sollee and

with stops in Brooklyn and at the Newport Folk Festival where Moore also performed with the

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. In January 2011, Moore released a gospel album, ''In the Cool of the Day'', which was inspired by an old in-house Steinway piano he played during a studio session at WVXU Radio in Cincinnati. To promote his new album, Moore toured the UK and Ireland with

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in March 2011. Also in 2011, Moore founded the record label Ol Kentuck Recordings. The first Ol Kentuck release was Maiden Radio's ''Lullabies''. In May 2012, Moore released ''Farthest Field'' on the Ol Kentuck Recordings label. The album is a duo-project between Moore and frequent collaborator, Joan Shelley, a Louisville, Kentucky-based singer and songwriter. In August 2013, Moore announced that his next album would be a collection of rare, previously unreleased recordings and collaborations with

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, Joan Shelley, and others. The album titled ''Archives Vol. I'' was released in October 2013 through the direct-to-fan platform

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Discography

* ''Stray Age'' (2008) * ''Dear Companion'' (with Ben Sollee) (2010) * ''In the Cool of the Day'' (2011) * ''Farthest Field'' (with Joan Shelley) (2012) * ''Archives Vol. I'' (2013) * ''Golden Age'' (2015) * ''Turned Over To Dreams'' (2017) * ''Never Look Away'' (2019)

Production credits

* ''Living Room'' - Daniel Joseph Dorff, 2011 (Produced, recorded and mixed as "DMM") * ''Ginko'' - Joan Shelley, 2012 (As "DMM") * ''The Quiltbox Sessions'' - Daniel Joseph Dorff & Ronnie Kuller, 2013 (Produced, recorded and mixed as "DMM") *''So It Was -'' So It Was, 2019 (Produced, recorded and mixed as "DMM")

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Daniel Martin American singer-songwriters Songwriters from Kentucky People from Elizabethtown, Kentucky Year of birth missing (living people) Living people