R. Stevie Moore
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R. Stevie Moore performing in New York in 2013.
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| Birth name | Robert Steven Moore |
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January 18, 1952 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1959–present |
| Associated acts | The Marlborough, Ariel Pink, Jad Fair, Mike Watt, Jason Falkner |
| Website | rsteviemoore |
Robert Steven Moore (born January 18, 1952), also known as R. Stevie Moore and RSM, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. In addition to having numerous albums released on labels around the world, Moore has self-released over 400 cassette, CD-R and digitally online albums since 1968, as well as dozens of home videos, mostly through the R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club, his home-based label. His eclectic work incorporates a variety of musical styles, both popular and experimental. From 1978 to November 2010, Moore lived and recorded in his apartment studios in Montclair, New Jersey, and then Bloomfield, New Jersey, before relocating to his native Nashville in December 2010. He is the oldest son of Bob Moore, veteran Nashville A-Team bassist, producer, and orchestra leader, as well as a longtime sideman for Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and many others.
In February 2005, newspaper writer Tammy LaGorce praised Moore, dubbing him a "lo-fi legend" in the New York Times.
Moore, born in Nashville, Tennessee, made his commercial recording debut at age seven, an overdub 1959 session arranged by his father—legendary Music City session musician Bob Moore (not Presley guitarist Scotty Moore, as many articles mistakenly claim)—singing a duet with popular country recording artist Jim Reeves entitled "But You Love Me, Daddy." The novelty song was withheld from commercial release until 1969 (five years after the death of Reeves), when it became a hit single in the UK on the RCA Victor label.
Moore is proficient on guitar, electric bass, keyboards, percussion, and in songwriting. In 1966, he began pursuing what would become his lifelong passion, home recording as a one-man band, using reel-to-reel tape decks set up in his parents' basement in suburban Madison. In 1967, he and some high school buddies formed a rock combo called The Marlborough. He later began working for his father as a studio musician, and as an assistant at Mimosa Music, his father's music publishing company. His credits during these early years include playing bass on a rare 1973 Perry Como single recorded in Nashville.
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