A Sample of I'm Happy With The One I've Got Now 

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I’M HAPPY WITH THE ONE I’VE GOT NOW

Label - Farish Street Records of Mississippi 

This is an exciting and dynamite album.

Producer Dorothy Moore, Arranger, Kimble Funchess, Recorded and Mixed at Hummingbird Recording Studios, Vicksburg Mississippi by Buzz Pickens and Kimble Slaton and mastered by L Nix Mastering.            

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Nominations for Blues Music Awards 

2016 37th Blues Music Awards 

Soul Blues Female Artist

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2014 35th Blues Music Awards 

Soul Blues Female Artist

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2013 34th Blues Music Awards

Soul Blues Female Artist

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2013 34th Blues Music Awards

 Dorothy Moore Soul Blues Album “Blues Heart”

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 I'm Happy With The One I've Got Now

MUSICIANS

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Rhythm

Caleb Armstrong - Guitar

Quinous Johnson - Drums

Charles Scott - Keyboards/Organ

Johnny Hubbard - Bass

Strings

Samuel Sarpong - Violin I – II

Monquez Ford - Viola

Ebony Sutton - Cello

Horns

Dr. Jessie Primer, iii - Tenor Sax

Steve Kincaid - Baritone Sax

David Ware - Trumpet/Trombone

Kimble Funchess - Trumpet/Flugelhorn

Sherrill Holly - Tenor Sax/Alto Sax

Background Vocals

Angela Walls

Latonya Polk

Photo Cover Credit

Kat Armendariz   

 I'm Happy With The One I've Got Now

SONGWRITERS

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1. I’M HAPPY WITH THE ONE I’VE GOT NOW

EG Kight, Joanna Cotton, Johnny Neel, Georgia Songbird Music, (BMI), On Top Of It Publishing (BMI), The Reel Neel Music (ASCAP)

2. YOU DON’T SAY NO

Eddie Floyd, Knock Wood (BMI Publishing)

3. THERE COMES A TIME

Gregory Abbott, Grabbitt Music (BMI)

4. EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR LOVIN’

im Cashion/Craig Woolard, Cottage Lake Music, (ASACP)

5. SAD, SAD, SUNDAY

EG Kight, Tom Horner, Georgia Songbird Music (BMI), Starhorn Music (ASCAP)

6. CRAZY

Willie Nelson, Sony ATV/Tree Publishing

7. YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL ME

Jim Wheatherly, Bright Leaf Music, ASCAP, adm. By words and Music (Big Deal Music)

8. I’LL GET BY

Eddie Floyd, Knock Wood (BMI Publishing)

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Click on Video above for previewing  a performance of Dorothy Moore at The Claude Gentry Theater. 

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RECENT PERFORMANCES

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*2020  June on the Mississippi Stage at the Chicago Blues Festival

*The Life and Career of Dorothy Moore, Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series, Feb. 2020

* David Gest's Soul Legends The Legacy Tour In the UK

*The Valentine's Day Super Love Jam- California

*Mississippi Governors Inaugural Ball

* Thacker Mountain Radio -Live Show

 *2nd Sat Live @ Claude Gentry Theater

*Kingston, Jamaica Live Show

*Jamaica Day, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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HONORS

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Dorothy Moore has several BLUES MUSIC AWARDS

2013, 2014,  & 2016

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She received the JAMES BROWN HERITAGE JUS' BLUES AWARD 2009

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The 1996 MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR’S AWARD for Excellence in the Arts

 The NATRA Female R&B Vocalist of the Year

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 She has been inducted into the MISSISSIPPI MUSICIANS HALL OF FAME.

She has received a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Monterey Bay Blues Festival.

She is on noted on several Mississippi Blues Markers and on one Country Music Marker.

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Dorothy Moore’s Misty Blue is still is on the top of the charts in the UK and has sold millions worldwide.

RECORDINGS

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1966: Lullaby of Love (Epic)

1976: Misty Blue (Malaco) - U.S. #29, R&B #10

1977: Dorothy Moore (Malaco) - US #120, R&B #26

1978: Once Moore with Feeling (Malaco)

1979: Definitely Dorothy (Malaco)

1980: Talk To Me (Epic)

1984: Just Another Broken Heart (Streetking)

1986: I'm Givin' It Straight To You (Rejoice) - Gospel #23

1988: Time Out for Me (Volt)

1989: Winner (Volt)

1990: Feel the Love (Malaco) - R&B #49

1991: Talk to Me (Malaco)

1992: Stay Close to Home (Malaco)

1996: Misty Blue & Other Hits (Malaco)

1996: More of Moore (Malaco)

1998: Songs to Love By (601)

2002: Please Come Home For Christmas (Farish Street)

2005: I'm Doing Alright (Farish Street)

2005: Gittin' Down Live (Farish Street)

2012: Blues Heart (Farish Street)[4]

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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Dorothy Moore’s early chart toppers were Misty Blue, Funny How Time Slips Away, I Believe You, For Old Time Sake and With Pen in Hand.

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Misty Blue climbed the US charts to number one for R&B and to number one single in the UK. It went gold in Canada and has sold millions worldwide. Misty Blue went platinum for the soundtrack of Phenomenon (1996), movie starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, and Forest Whitaker. Her song is also played in Black or White with Kevin Costner (2015), Made of Honor (2008), Jesus’ Son (2000), and on the small screen in a Sopranos episode (2004).

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I Believe You, released in 1977, earned Dorothy Moore one of Record World’s Top Female Vocalists of the year. The song made the number one single R&B and the top 10 single in the US, and went to number one single in the UK.

Dorothy Moore started her own label in 2002, Farish Street Records of Mississippi, for which she has recorded four albums, the last being Blues Heart. She served on the Board of the Blues Foundation, Memphis, for six years and was the chair of the Hart Fund for which she still volunteers actively.

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She has performed on stage with Lou Rawls, Al Green, B.B. King, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Ben E. King, Eddie Floyd… She has also appeared on prestigious shows, including Soul Train and The Midnight Special. She has toured internationally to Japan, Jamaica, Switzerland and the UK for three trips, continuing to wow fans with her gospel —”I have been singing gospel practically all my life, and I never have really left it. I really love singing gospel”—, with her new music, and with her classic Misty Blue.

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CONTACTS

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RADIO PROMOTION & PUBLICITY

 Mississippi Delta Blues, Inc. Carol Marble, President deltablues@bellsouth.net 

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 EXCLUSIVE BOOKING

Peggy Brown, CEO Hit the Road Entertainment: htrprb@gmail.com 

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MANAGER 

Marcia Weaver