Moses Rascoe

Moses Rascoe got his initial guitar in NEW YORK at age 13 and turned professional in Pa some 50-odd years later. Among, he journeyed the roads being a time laborer and vehicle driver, playing electric guitar limited to “a money or a glass or two,” as he informed Jack port Roberts in Living Blues. But he’d found plenty of tracks over time, from outdated Brownie McGhee Piedmont blues to Jimmy Reed’s ’50s jukebox strikes, so when he retired from trucking at age 65, he provided his music a go. The neighborhood folk-music community got notice, as do blues and folk celebrations from Chicago to European countries. Rascoe documented his first record live at Godfrey Daniels, a Pa coffeehouse, in 1987.