Delta Moon

Delta Moon
Origin	Inman Park, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Genres	Swamp blues, blues rock, blues
Years active	Late 1990s–present
Labels	Various including Delta Moon, Fontana North, Red Parlor Records and ZYX Music
Website	Official website
Members	Tom Gray Mark Johnson Franher Joseph Vic Stafford
Past members	Gina Leigh Kristin Markiton

Delta Moon is an American swamp blues, blues rock, and blues band. They originated in Inman Park, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The group's name came to founder member, Mark Johnson, whilst on a pilgrimage to Muddy Waters' cabin near Clarksdale, Mississippi. In 2003, Delta Moon won the International Blues Challenge. They have released a number of albums on various labels, including their latest, Low Down, which Down Beat magazine named in their "best albums of 2015".

Referring to the band's twin guitar-led sound, Chicago Sun-Times stated "Gray and Johnson's double-slide style works to perfection."

One of the band's founders, Tom Gray, was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Arlington County, Virginia and Georgia. His family home is located in the North Carolina mountains. He is the former songwriter, vocalist and keyboard player of the 1980s new wave band, The Brains. Gray wrote their most notable song "Money Changes Everything" (1978), which was successfully covered by Cyndi Lauper in 1984. By the late 1980s, he started playing the lap steel guitar. He is the band's main songwriter, and his songs have been recorded by Cyndi Lauper, Manfred Mann, Carlene Carter, and Bonnie Bramlett, amongst others. In 2008, the Roots Music Association named him the 'Blues Songwriter of the Year'.

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