Ace Mo is all heart and soul and it shows in his music, and this latest album is no exception. “Give it to Get it,” as we all know is a
Steve Gaines song, and the album is a fitting tribute to the late Skynyrd guitarist. We are proud to present an exclusive inter- view with one helluva lead guitarist and an awesome all around talent and person, Ace Moreland.
homa, especially Tulsa. Yeah. When I first moved to Tulsa, most of my band already lived there. And Junior Markum owned a club there called The Para- dise Club. I produced an album on Junior that came out about a year ago. Anyway, Jun- ior grew up with Leon Russell and J.J. Cale, they were in their first band together back in the early ‘60’s. They all went to California to- gether. Junior actually got better offers from the record companies than Leon did, only Junior turned them down and Leon took ‘em. (Laughs) By the late ‘70’s Junior was back in
Tulsa and he owned the club, and he had a band that played in it, but they didn’t want to play six nights a week every week, so he was the first club owner in Tulsa to give me and my band a job. Bonnie Raitt started coming in. She came in and jammed with my band about twelve times. A couple of times we hung some microphones down, we thought we were making a record with a cassette deck. But I’ll be damned if I can find the tapes. I wish I could find it. It’s a great tape. It’s got her and Junior singing “Honest I Do,” and “I Got My Mojo Workin’” with Bonnie playing slide, and I’m mainly chunking rhythm gui- tar.
There was a band there that was on
Ace, tell us a little about where you were bon and raised. Well, I was born in Miami, Oklahoma. I was raised three miles away in Commerce, Okla- homa. That’s also the home town of Mickey Mantle. I grew up with Steve and Cassie Gaines (Lynyrd Skynyrd), I knew them since I was about eleven years old. I was real good friends with Steve, I played in some bands with him.
There were a lot of great musicians that came out of your home state of Okla-
tour from England called The Fabulous Poo- dles, and one of ‘em jumped up on stage with a harmonica right in the middle of our deal, and Bonnie turned to me and said,”Somebody needs to get them limey’s off the stage.” (Laughs)
You were talking about Steve and Cassie Gaines earlier. Tell us a little about Steve. He was a really good person. He wouldn’t put anybody down. Like this one guy I knew, he was kind of a country singer, a young guy. He played rhythm guitar. He went up to Stevie at
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