R.B. Morris

A onetime poet and playwright, singer-songwriter R.B. Morris was being among the most literate composers to emerge from the choice country community from the 1990s. A indigenous of Knoxville, Tennessee, he grew up on old-time music, but via an old brother was later on introduced to Defeat literature, poetry, episode and the task of Bob Dylan. During his 1st honky-tonk shows, Morris was supported by string rings, but as period used on, his music started flirting increasingly more with rock and roll; after touring the U.S., Canada and European countries, he returned towards the Applachians to invest annually in seclusion dwelling inside a primitive hill cabin. After briefly relocating to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Morris returned to Knoxville to spotlight writing; furthermore to carrying out his poetry at open-mike evenings, he also edited a literary journal, Hard Knoxville, and penned a one-man play, THE PERSON Who Lives HERE’S Loony, about the life span of writer Wayne Agee. From the middle-1990s, Morris was living and carrying out in Nashville, where he found interest of John Prine; upon putting your signature on to Prine’s Oh Young man label, he released his debut LP, Consider That Trip, in 1997. Zeke as well as the Steering wheel followed 2 yrs later.