Hello folks, sorry that has been a little while since my last piece, but between school, work, and the band, I've been a little swamped. But now I'm going to take a look at the release from Mosby Ross, "Love, Lust, Loss."
"Love, Lust, Loss" is pretty well the three things most songs are written about, but not in this CD. This is more of a self-evaluation of the writer going through life. This CD is outside of what I usually listen to, as you know, I'm a huge Rush and Dream Theater fan and these songs are on the complete opposite side of that spectrum. However, the sound of this artist is very simplistic, almost in the realm of folk rock. This is the perfect music to mellow out to at three-thirty in the morning or driving around after a huge fight with someone close. Jacob "Mosby" Ross is a young songwriter, he's been playing around the local Starbucks and churches in the area. He's eighteen, but his songs are much more mature than that. If you can remember back almost a year, when Bolton High School teacher Ashley Scott was killed, the news station reporting the story featured him rallying students and singing in her memory. The song was "An Angel Over Me," which is featured on the CD. "What Will It Take" and "Mirror Images of the Same Thing" offer more of an autobiographical look at him dealing with situations like a pill addiction to his brother serving our country in Iraq.
Bottom line, give this guy a good listen. These songs are not your typical teenage songs, there are artists right now who have been writing for years more than this guy, and they can't touch the personal feeling that he has. You can find out more about Jacob "Mosby" Ross at www.myspace.com/fromelsewheremusic.
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