Mickey Moone is a man with a mission, as he releases "Take It Easy," the album's second single, and a love letter to rock & roll that inspired him. The song is a time capsule, sending a beam directly from the golden age of the '50s but delivered with contemporary grit.
Moone's early dose of rock was his dad's boom box, cranking those classic jukebox anthems in the '80s, and "Take It Easy" captures that same energizing spirit. A loping bassline rolls easily under a steady, trainlike drum shuffle while Moone's verb-soaked lead guitar soars like a surfer on an endless wave. His sharp vocals pierced the thick, stratified surface of the soundscape, a perfect infusion of nostalgia and nuevo energy. It keeps everything on tempo, thanks to a cowboy-strummed rhythm guitar that you will find impossible not to tap along to.
Moone plays all the instruments and records the vocals, and inspiration decides the tempo. The man known all over Southern Ontario simply as "that-folk-a-billy-country-rock-punk-guy" is taking stages across the region this year, performing Take It Easy solo and with The Murder. Feast your eyes on a Moone—this ride's only getting started.
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