David Moore and the Art of Mixing His Own Americana on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
David Moore and the Art of Mixing His Own Americana on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
A Knox City Songwriter Plays Nearly Every Part on a Ten-Song Alt-Country Album
The sleeve says David Moore and Westridge, which sounds like a band. The credits tell a more personal story, because Moore plays nearly every part on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow himself. Released on May 8, 2023, the ten-song set moves between fingerpicked folk rock, Americana, rock and a touch of alt-country. It is built by someone who clearly cares where every instrument sits.
David Moore’s music is in the playlist below, including the title track, and his full coverage history sits on his artist profile. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news sites. Press play, then read on for how the record was built.
David Moore and Westridge Stack Fingerpicked Guitar, Banjo and Psychedelic Keys Into Ten Americana Songs
Start with the guitars. Music for All reviewed the album in May 2023. It singles out fingerpicked electric lines and big, ornate acoustic parts as the common thread. The same review hears psychedelic keyboards adding colour, with a steady rhythm section underneath. That mix of roots playing and studio colour is the album’s signature.
The arrangements then change shape from track to track. “All I Ask” leans on a groove, with Dave Wilhelm on drums. “Christine” opens in a dreamy acoustic haze before the beat arrives, as Muse Chronicle noted in its July 2023 review. “You” kicks off with a guitar solo, and Spotify credits guitarist Jim Patterson as a featured artist on that track.
Further in, “Evil Weed” turns to straight folk rock. The title track then closes the album with banjo. IGGY Magazine heard a far-west, country feel in that closer. It also pointed to the way Moore leaves short silences between his lines, so the words have room to land.
The longer songs give the arrangements room to stretch. Music for All picks out the easy-going groove of “The Lemming Song”. Muse Chronicle adds that the track starts on an upbeat note, while its lyric turns to people giving in to their worst impulses. “Worldly Girl” also runs past five minutes, which gives Moore space to work a love song through at his own pace.
One Musician Records, Produces, Mixes and Masters the Folk Rock, With Two Guest Players
The production story is mostly a one-person story. According to Muse Chronicle, Moore records, edits, produces, mixes and masters all of his own work. He also plays everything from guitars to drums. SongWeb adds the exceptions: Jim Patterson’s electric guitar on “You”, “Rhyme Or Reason” and the chorus of “The Lemming Song”, plus Dave Wilhelm’s drumming on “All I Ask” and “You”.
That control shows in how the record holds together. SongWeb describes warm acoustic tones from the opening track onwards. Meanwhile, The Musical Road notes that Moore writes most of his songs on acoustic guitar. It calls his style loosely folk rock, even though his writing reaches into pop, blues and progressive country. Its verdict is that the album still works as a cohesive body of work.
The title fits the process too. SongWeb describes the album as a set of songs recorded between the 1970s and the 1990s. Seen that way, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a songwriter carrying older material into the present. At ten songs and a little over 42 minutes, it suits a single sitting. “The Lemming Song” stretches past six minutes, while “Down By The Sea” wraps up in just over three.
From the AltPop.News Curator Team: “The smartest staging choice comes before a single chord is played. ‘Our Trip In The Sun’ opens on the sound of water against a shoreline and birdsong, and that sets the scene for the whole album better than any intro riff could.”
Where to Hear David Moore and Westridge, Starting With Evil Weed and Rhyme Or Reason
John Fogerty played every instrument himself on his 1973 album The Blue Ridge Rangers. Listeners who know that record will recognise the appeal of a roots album built mostly by one pair of hands. Fans of The Byrds should also find a way in. That band’s jangling folk-rock guitars and occasional psychedelic turns sit close to the fingerpicked lines and keyboard colour on this album.
This is a record for people who listen to Americana, alt-country and folk rock for the playing as much as the words. Start with “Evil Weed” for the folk-rock core, then “Rhyme Or Reason” for its chorus and Patterson’s guitar. After that, go back to “Our Trip In The Sun” and play the album in order, ideally on headphones.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is also on Apple Music. Follow David Moore and Westridge on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. His Linktree and official website carry news on newer releases.
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