{"id":1318580,"date":"2020-03-05T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/moors-mccumber-return-to-steves-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:56:00","slug":"moors-mccumber-return-to-steves-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/moors-mccumber-return-to-steves-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Moors & McCumber return to Steve\u2019s on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moors & McCumber will perform at Steve’s Guitars on Friday starting at 8:30 p.m.<\/strong>
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When James Moors began playing one of his original songs in 2005 at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Song School in Lyons, Kort McCumber couldn\u2019t resist joining in on bouzouki and harmony vocals.<\/p>\n

Afterward, the two young musicians introduced themselves to each other and decided to try performing together. They had each been pursuing solo careers, but their collaboration went so well they began inviting each other to perform at their solo gigs.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can play with so many different people, but when you find somebody you really click with and your voices blend in that perfect way, you know the universe is telling you something,\u201d McCumber said. \u201cRight away we realized that our voices meshed so well together, it was almost like from another mother, we had sibling harmonies right away. You don\u2019t get that very often outside of family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moors & McCumber returns to play at Steve\u2019s Guitars this Friday night starting at 8:30 p.m. It will be the \u201csixth or seventh\u201d time the duo has played the intimate Carbondale venue since 2012.<\/p>\n

Both Moors and McCumber continued their solo careers for several years after their initial collaboration, but following a musical\/sightseeing tour of Ireland in 2011, they decided to commit more to performing together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we came back from that we said \u2018we should really make the duo our No. 1 priority,\u201d McCumber said. \u201cWe started to realize we did have some great camaraderie together and built a friendship that makes all the touring possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve played with a lot of other musicians in my career and it\u2019s easy to get along with everyone onstage, but offstage you have to put up with somebody, and we realized that our friendship has really driven the duo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since making the decision to join forces, McCumber said the duo\u2019s sound has evolved through their collaboration.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames is the main lyricist of the duo, and it helps that we have opposite strengths. My strengths are harmony and arrangements,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat it\u2019s evolved into is that, even if he feels like he\u2019s got a song finished, he always runs it by me, because if we put it through that Moors & McCumber filter, it always ends up making the song a little better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cMoors & McCumber sound,\u201d he said, incorporates elements of various American roots music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues, and more recently of Irish music.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve probably done over 20 tours of Ireland,\u201d McCumber said. \u201cWe do four 10-day trips a year over to Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo weren\u2019t playing Irish music at all when they first started performing together, but once they traveled to the Emerald Isle and immersed themselves in its traditional music, it inspired them to blend some of it into their own sound, McCumber said. And that sound has been well received by Irish audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a mutual admiration \u2014 we loved what they did and were incorporating it into our music, and they just wanted to hear our Americana music and harmonies, because they don\u2019t get that much over there,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have phenomenal virtuoso instrumentalists, and great singers, too, but they\u2019re not so harmony driven.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Steve\u2019s on Friday, expect to hear a Moors & McCumber sound built around harmonies, multiple instruments, and many memorable original songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople tell us \u2018every time I hear you guys I have one of your songs stuck in my head for weeks,\u2019 and we\u2019re like \u2018sorry, not sorry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

jbear@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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