William (Bill) Moore

Half of the recordings done by this artist may have gone the way of Jimmy Hoffa's corpse, but the eight tracks that were released in the late '20s and subsequently reissued time and time again easily maintain the reputation of William "Bill" Moore as an elite country blues multi-instrumentalist in the elaborate syncopated East Coast blues or Piedmont blues style. There is also a blues conspiracy theory in which two different people named William Moore actually created the body of work more often attributed to one, yet even in this case the instrumental dexterity of half of the...