Biography

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“Bart Moore’s unique voice, rapid-fire strumming and surrealistic lyrics separate him from other folk and Americana artists”. - Cyrus Rhodes, INDIE MUSIC REVIEWS

Wild Flora, Bart Moore’s third album, chronicles his passions for baseball and trains, God and dreams, distant stars, and Ireland in the spring. A brighter, more playful collection than its predecessor, Graveyards, Wind, & War. It was recorded from September 2023 thru January 2024 at Corey DeRushia’s Troubadour Recording Studio in the depths of Lansing, Michigan. Featuring eight fine guest musicians (playmates in the sandbox), Moore’s formative-years songwriter influences such as Bob Dylan, Robyn Hitchcock, and early 70s Ian Anderson guided Wild Flora. Musically, it pays homage to the Pogues, the Beatles, and perhaps the Sam Bush-New Grass Revival collaborations of days gone by.

“Bart Moore’s third album, Wild Flora, is really something else; crazy, impudent singing and genius writing, a love for Ireland and nine tracks to make you laugh and shout with joy, from the opening ‘Molly Bloom’, ‘The Railyard Ghosts’, ‘God Is Just Plain Lazy’ and the beautiful closer ‘Mattie’s Song (She’s Walking On Time)’. His excellent band is to die for and Grant Flick executes some jaw-dropping violin – what an absolute corker.” - Mick Tems, FolkWales Online Magazine

Moore’s approach to the songs and arrangements on Wild Flora was driven by his insatiable desire to poke and prod at his chosen genre. As he said on Baruch Zeichner’s PARADIGMS podcast: “There’s altogether too much introspective naval-gazing and self-affirmation in modern folk and acoustic music…no one’s writing songs about flying dinosaurs. Or loose women on the Dublin streets. Or girls dancing on clocks. All that territory has been ceded to me.”

“No one sings like Moore….. Imagine it’s 1:55am in some far off tavern and the man who ate the last 13 pickled eggs stands up on his corner table and starts singing with this special combination of resonance and enunciation and everyone drops their glasses.” - Kevin Curtin, music editor, Austin Chronicle

Once a veteran of the San Francisco alt rock scene, Moore, a Michigan native, relocated to the Lansing area “to escape the Big City club scene and postpone ultimate deafness.” Eschewing his Les Paul for an acoustic guitar, he settled on a farm in nearby Grand Ledge and made himself a presence in the local clubs. In 2017 he released his well-received debut album, Curse of Los Lunas. 2022’s Graveyards, Wind & War, though often thematically dark and foreboding, received a decent slate of folk-radio airplay, claiming a #1 spot on the NACC Top 5 Folk Adds Chart.