MOORE, JERRY - Life Is a Constant Journey Home

'Originally released in 1968. Jerry Moore was working as a folksinger in Greenwich Village when ESP-Disk' artist Randy Burns brought him to the label's attention. Recorded in August 1967 at Impact Studios, NYC, the soulful Life Is a Constant Journey Home (also issued at one point as Ballad of Birmingham, acknowledging its most famous and important song) is so legendary that we'll just let the press quotation below describe it. But please also consider this: that's a heckuva band Mr. Moore's backed by. Eric Gale, who had the chops to play with both jazz and soul legends, was an elite session guitarist until his premature demise of lung cancer. By the time Warren Smith played this date, he'd already recorded with Miles Davis, Gil Evans, and Charles Mingus, and he has gone on to a legendary career as a jazz drummer, composer, and bandleader. Bill Salter, if less famous, still boasts credits with everyone from Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Herbie Mann to ESP-Disk's own Pearls Before Swine. Ralph