About

Once described as a “musician who shouldn’t be a musician,” Mesa, AZ-based singer/songwriter/musician Gene Moran may be hard to categorize but he sure isn’t hard to listen to. 

Take some old classic country 45s from the Hank Williams school of lonesome, add a heavy dose of alt-rock, grunge and fuzz (ala Dinosaur Jr. and the like) and throw in some old school Arizona desert rock of the Naked Prey, Greyhound Soul and Giant Sand variety. Multiply all that by some better-than-average free childhood guitar lessons by a talented relative and divide it by an accident at birth, subtract the use of fine and gross motor skills (cerebral palsy), and add a wheelchair which results in a unique and distinctive playing style.

Now transmute the sound in your head and make it a dozen or so times better than what you’re already imagining. Yeah. This guy’s the real deal. 

“There’s peeps that write about themselves and peeps that write about the world around them. Gene Moran has an attention to detail about the world around him…a perspective that most of us miss. Of late this guy inspires me of what writing songs is supposed to be about. He conjures up not just his own world but those of others as well. You’d be lucky if you were a part of it and if you weren't you'd feel as if you were there.”

- Joe Peña, Greyhound Soul