From early on, his parents, who were from Louisiana and Texas, instilled him with a great appreciation for the blues and gospel music. By adolescence, he was an accomplished guitarist.\n', '

Keb\' Mo\' started his musical career playing the steel drums and upright bass in a calypso band. He moved on to play in a variety of blues and backup bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach through an R&B group. Creach hired him when Moore was 21 years old; Moore appeared on four of Creach\'s albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I\'m the Fiddle Man and Rock Father. Keb\' Mo\'s first gold record was received for a song, "Git Fiddler", which he co-wrote with Papa John on Jefferson Starship\'s Red Octopus. Red Octopus hit number one on the Billboard 200 in 1975.\n', '

Moore was also a staff writer for A&M Records, and arranged demos for Almo - Irving music. Keb\' Mo\'s debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Records, a subsidiary of Casablanca Records, in 1980. He was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner and emerged as an inheritor of a guarded tradition and as a genuine original.\n', '

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