The voice of Ian Moss has modestly purred beneath his searing
guitar playing for more than 30 years – but no longer. For his
sixth solo album, Soul on West 53rd, Ian’s sweet, soaring
vocal is the pivot around which famed American producer
Danny Kortchmar has built a rich, soulful sound, drawing on
classic songs from the likes of Sam Cooke, Al Green, Otis
Redding and Bill Withers. Unleashing this surge of soul power
has unlocked a whole new chapter in Mossy’s performing
career, which ironically was triggered by his appearances on
the television series It Takes Two that highlighted vocal duets.
“When I put aside the guitar and sang a few soul ballads on
that show, people were suddenly listening to me differently.
They’d say ‘Yeah, we knew you sang, but we didn’t know you
could really sing’. It was both flattering and frustrating. I kept
wondering what they thought I’d been doing for past 30 years.
It showed that there was a different side of my music that hadn’t
really been heard by enough people before.”
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