Deacon John Moore
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Deacon John Moore (born 23 June 1941) is a blues, rhythm & blues and rock & roll musician, singer, and bandleader.
Deacon John was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, growing up in the city's 8th Ward. He plays guitar and is the brother of famed Creole scholar Sybil Kein.
He was active on the New Orleans R&B scene since his teens, and became a well regarded session man on many hit recordings of the late 1950s and the 1960s, including by Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, and others. His band at New Orleans' legendary Dew Drop Inn attracted an enthusiastic following, sometimes upstaging visiting national acts Deacon John was hired to open for. While highly regarded locally and by his fellow musicians, lack of hit records under his own name kept him from the national fame achieved by a number of his peers.
In 2000 Deacon John Moore was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame.
He is featured in the film "Deacon John's Jump Blues".
As of 2006 he remains a local favorite on the New Orleans music scene. On 25 July 2006 Moore became president of local 174-496 of the American Federation of Musicians, the New Orleans area musician's union.
Regarding Katrina, Deacon John says:
"The signal I look for is coming from the social and pleasure clubs," says Deacon John. "Groups like The Links and The Bunch Club - traditionally Creole - are still going to have their Carnival balls. So I don't think the tradition is completely over with. These are mainstays of the Creole culture, throwing debutante parties and Mardi Gras balls. There might be less people but they're going to go on. And several of the Mardi Gras Indian tribes are coming out. There might be less feathers and less splendor, but the show must go on."
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