Wayne Moss
{{Short description|American session guitarist (b. 1938)}}
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Wayne Moss (born February 9, 1938, in South Charleston, West Virginia, United States){{cite web|title=Nashville Cat: Wayne Moss|url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/exhibit/dylan-cash-and-the-nashville-cats-a-new-music-city/the-nashville-cats/wayne-moss/|website=Country Music Hall of Fame|access-date=27 September 2024}} is an American guitar player, bassist, record producer and songwriter best known for his session work in Nashville. In 1961, Moss founded Cinderella Sound recording studio.{{cite web|title=Wayne Moss|url=https://www.wvmusichalloffame.com/hof_moss.html|website=West Virginia Music Hall of Fame|date=2013|access-date=27 September 2024}} In 2011 it was Nashville's oldest surviving independent studio.{{cite web|last=Fiegel|first=Eddi|title=Wayne Moss: Cinderella Sound, Nashville|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/wayne-moss-cinderella-sound-nashville|website=Sound On Sound|date=October 2011|access-date=27 September 2024}} Moss was one of the founders of Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry, both bands made up of Nashville session players.
Biography
Moss was born in 1938 in South Charleston, West Virginia. As a teenager he played in bands in nearby Charleston before eventually moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1959. He became friends with Kenny Buttrey and Charlie McCoy. Hargus "Pig" Robbins hired him as a session musician,{{cite web|last=Halsey|first=Derek|title=All the Good People Down in Tennessee are Digging Barefoot Jerry... An Interview with Wayne Moss|url=http://swampland.com/articles/view/title:wayne_moss|website=Swampland.com|date=February 2002|access-date=27 September 2024}} leading to Moss playing on recordings by artists including Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Joan Baez, Steve Miller Band, and Linda Ronstadt.{{cite web|title=Nashville Cat: Wayne Moss|url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/exhibit/dylan-cash-and-the-nashville-cats-a-new-music-city/the-nashville-cats/wayne-moss/|website=Country Music Hall of Fame|access-date=27 September 2024}}
The first number one hit song that Moss played on was Tommy Roe's "Sheila" (1962).{{cite web|last=Halsey|first=Derek|title=All the Good People Down in Tennessee are Digging Barefoot Jerry... An Interview with Wayne Moss|url=http://swampland.com/articles/view/title:wayne_moss|website=Swampland.com|date=February 2002|access-date=27 September 2024}} He also played guitar on Roy Orbison's hit song "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964), and played guitar and bass on Bob Dylan's acclaimed album Blonde On Blonde (1966). He also played on Joe Simon's 1969 album The Chokin' Kind (album), as well as guitar on Dolly Parton's signature song "Jolene" (1973).{{cite web|last=Childs|first=Zac|title=The Guitars of Dolly Parton's "Jolene"|url=https://www.askzac.com/post/the-guitars-of-dolly-partons-jolene-featuring-chip-young-wayne-moss-ask-zac-124|website=Ask Zac|date=17 April 2020|access-date=27 September 2024}}
Other artists whose recordings Moss has played on as a session musician include Charlie Daniels, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Lefty Frizzell, Leo Kottke, Kris Kristofferson, Dennis Linde, Charlie McCoy, Moon Mullican, Mike Nesmith, Carl Perkins, and Nancy Sinatra. He also played with Brenda Lee as a member of her touring band.{{cite web|last=Herrmuth|first=Bronson|title=My Interviews - Wayne Moss|url=http://www.bronsonsmusic.com/wayne_moss.html|website=Bronsonsmusic.com|date=21 August 2010|access-date=27 September 2024}}
Cinderella Sound
When the Sack, a Nashville nightclub Moss and McCoy had been running, went out of business in 1961, they used the equipment to build a recording studio in Moss' garage in Madison.{{cite web|title=Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City - Part 4: Artists That Followed|url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/exhibit/dylan-cash-and-the-nashville-cats-a-new-music-city/beyond-the-nashville-skyline/|website=Country Music Hall of Fame|access-date=27 September 2024}}
The studio, which Moss named Cinderella Sound, has hosted recording sessions by artists including Jackie DeShannon, Steve Miller Band, Linda Ronstadt, Grand Funk Railroad, James Gang, Tracy Nelson, and Mickey Newbury.{{cite web|title=Nashville Cat: Wayne Moss|url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/exhibit/dylan-cash-and-the-nashville-cats-a-new-music-city/the-nashville-cats/wayne-moss/|website=Country Music Hall of Fame|access-date=27 September 2024}}
Selected discography
- Blonde On Blonde, Bob Dylan, 1966 (notably guitar on "I Want You" and bass on "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"
- Roy Orbison, "Pretty Woman"
- Stan Beaver, "I Got a Rocket in my Pocket"
- Tommy Roe, "Sheila"
- Joe Simon, "The Chokin' Kind", #13 and "Yours Love"
- Kai Winding, Modern Country (Verve, 1964)
References
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External links
- [http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/wayne-moss Wayne Moss Interview] at NAMM Oral History Library (2017)
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Category:Musicians from Charleston, West Virginia
Category:Musicians from Nashville, Tennessee
Category:Record producers from West Virginia
Category:Record producers from Tennessee
Category:American session musicians
Category:Country musicians from West Virginia