Listen | Lyrics and Chords | Press Release Release Date: April 3, 2020 Order yours here now or through a contribution to the Be a Pain Education Fund Learn more about the new album HERE. Read a feature article in The Boston Globe here. “How lucky we are to have Alastair Moock around these days! When too many adults are role modeling the pursuit of fame, fortune, or personal gain, Alastair’s songs encourage our kids… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics | Press Release A Top Ten Folk DJ Album for June, 2017 Rich Warren, The Midnight Special (Nationally Syndicated) “Moock reemerges as the best new, old singer-songwriter on the scene.” A Top 12 Favorite Pick of the Year John Weingart, WPRB, Music You Can’t Hear On The Radio “I love it! One of my favorites of the (not so) new year.” Doug Gesler, WMBR, Lost Highway “What a really fine new album Moock has put… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics and Chords | Press Release 2015 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal 2015 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal 2015 ASCAP Joe Raposo Children’s Music Award 2015 Fids & Kamily Industry Poll #2 Album of the Year Parents’ Choice Foundation “This is everything children’s music can and should be.” National Parenting Publications Awards “An excellent album. Moock has a gift for writing songs with humanity, humor and fine musicianship. Songs here bust stereotypes, promote… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics and Chords | Press Release | Testimonials 2013 GRAMMY Nomination, Best Children’s Album 2013 Parents’ Choice Gold Medal 2013 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal 2013 People Magazine Best Kids’ Album Pick 2013 Fids & Kamily Industry Poll #3 Album of the Year In 2012, one of Alastair’s twins was diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia). “Singing Our Way Through” is the album they made in the wake of the diagnosis. Over… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics and Chords | Press Release 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal 2012 Parents’ Choice Silver Medal Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Best of 2011 Time Out New York Best of 2011 (Honorable Mention) Fids & Kamily Industry Poll Best of 2011 (Honorable Mention) Scott Alarik, Music Writer, Boston Globe and Sing Out!: “These real-life family songs are as sweetly satisfying as a mouthful of caramel, sung in an affable leap-froggy… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics and Chords 2010 National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Medal 2010 Parents’ Choice Recommended A 2009 Boston Children’s Music Favorite Album of the Year A 2009 Iguana Music Fund Grant Winner Parents’ Choice: “An ebullient debut children’s album from respected folk musician Alastair Moock. Inspired by his toddler twin daughters, Moock offers dad-savvy empathy, humor and warmth delivered in his trademark gravel rasp and foot-stomping, American roots music instrumentation.” NAPPA (National Parenting Publications… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics The Boston Globe “On a new album, Fortune Street, Moock sings about urban isolation, a land of plenty rotting on the vine, and love’s many moods with insight, defiant idealism, and a survivor’s hard humor. If Woody Guthrie grew up in 21st-century Boston, he’d sound a lot like Moock.” Sing Out! “With each of his five albums, this Boston-based singer-songwriter has honed his signature ability to write songs that sound joyfully homespun… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics The Boston Herald “Thanks to Michael Dinallo’s dynamic production and gorgeous, exciting work from, among others, guitarists Kevin Barry and Steve Sadler, the sound of Let it Go is shot through with rugged clarity. But it’s the songs themselves that really lift this project… Moock has become simply one of the top songwriters in the region.” [A Top 10 Album of 2004] Worcester Magazine “Let it Go slyly delivers thoughtful lyrics over thick swamp-blues and… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics The Boston Globe “A Life I Never Had is the CD that fans of rootsy local songwriter Alastair Moock knew he had in him. He displays the gifts the best folk songwriters have: romantic without seeming mawkish, clever without seeming precious, brooding without seeming self-pitying. The new CD is an aural feast, richly melodic, set to a propulsive groove, brimming with eloquent riffs and evocative moments, including stunning reinventions of classics by… Read more »
Listen | Lyrics A 1999 CMJ New Music Report “Must Hear Album” Dirty Linen “Boston singer/songwriter Alastair Moock is an anachronism in the best sense. He’s a young man with the wizened sound of someone much older, often sounding a lot like Steve Forbert in both voice and arrangements, and he mixes his rootsy, confident originals with covers of old songs by people like Woody Guthrie and the young Bob Dylan. He writes hook-filled country… Read more »