Country Outlaw Dallas Moore Wins CAMMYFor Immediate Release NASHVILLE - Country outlaw Dallas Moore won his first CAMMY Award (Cincinnati Music Awards), Sunday, March 14 at the Sycamore Gardens. The awards are sponsored by the Cincinnati Enquirer. Proceeds benefit the Michael W. Bany Scholarship Fund, which provides financial assistance to collegiate music students. Moore was chosen as "Best Country Vocalist." Moore was also nominated as "Best Country Band." Moore is well known throughout the Southeast for his raw-edged brand of country music. He attended college on a jazz scholarship and after walking in unannounced to the office of a booking agent, began opening for his heroes: David Allan Coe, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, the Marshall Tucker Band, George Jones and Merle Haggard. Moore is currently attracting hoardes of fans to his sold-out shows which have been described as the "professional wrestling of country music." This is the third year of the CAMMY awards and the third year Moore was nominated. Moore said he won in typical Dallas Moore style. "The last two years we couldn't go ( to the awards) because we were on the road. This year, we'd just spent a whole week on the road with David Allan Coe and drove 5 1/2 hours through a blizzard to get there. Everyone else was dressed to the nines and I had on my black George Dickel t-shirt. Hell, I was just happy to be there. It shocked me to death when I won." Moore's two albums (My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, 1996, Chroma Tone Records and One More Ride, 1998, Chroma Tone Records) have been well received. Two songs from One More Ride, "Bad Checks" and "Every Sad Song on the Jukebox" typify Dallas' incisive songwriting abilities and have been tapped for the 1999 motion picture Nice Guys Sleep Alone starring Vanessa Marcil and Morgan Fairchild. Both albums are available regionally in stores in Ohio and Kentucky. Lisa Wysocky |