Artist's albums
Walking My Blues Away
2021 · album
Blues Masters: Gatemouth Moore
2014 · album
Gatemouth Moore, Did You Ever Love a Woman
2012 · album
The Very Best of Gatemouth Moore
2011 · compilation
Pioneers of Rhythm & Blues, Volume 10
2007 · album
Hey Mr. Gatemouth
2005 · album
Cryin' And Singin' The Blues
2004 · album
Revival!
1960 · album
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Biography
Blues shouter and later gospel preacher, Gatemouth Moore got his start in Kansas City while still a teenager, singing for the bands of Bennie Moten and Walter Barnes. Graced with a smooth but powerful voice similar to Charles Brown, Moore spent the 1940s penning and recording songs, most notably "Have You Ever Loved a Woman," which would later be covered by B.B. King and the previously mentioned Charles Brown. Others would revisit Moore's songs, too, with Rufus Thomas covering Gatemouth's "Somebody's Got to Go" and Jimmy Witherspoon adopted "Christmas Blues." In 1949 Moore gave up secular singing for the gospel trail. He still sang and recorded -- but almost exclusively gospel material -- and spent most of the ensuing decades working in churches and promoting gospel music through radio programs that he hosted. In 2003, Moore appeared in director Richard Pearce's film Road to Memphis singing a latter-day song he wrote titled "Beale Street Ain't Beale Street No More." The following year, the singer dubbed Gatemouth because of his massive voice passed away from natural causes at the age of 90. ~ Wade Kergan, Rovi