Keb' Mo' - More Than One Way Home

What this video is

Released in 1996 from the album 'Just Like You' (Epic/Sony), 'More Than One Way Home' is rooted in Keb' Mo's autobiographical storytelling about South Los Angeles working-class life — Compton summers, grocery store jobs, neighborhood characters, and the Double Rock Baptist Church. The song and video appeared at the crest of a mid-1990s blues revival that brought acoustic Delta-influenced blues back to mainstream…

Why it matters

An exemplary artifact of the mid-90s contemporary blues crossover: a blues track co-written with a longtime collaborator, produced by John Porter, and promoted via a polished but roots-honest music video under a celebrated director (Nigel Dick) with deep Sony/Epic ties. The video captures the…

The director

Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953, Catterick, North Yorkshire) is a British-American music video director and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied architecture at the University of Bath before entering the record industry at Stiff Records. He co-founded…