Keith Moseley (born February 5, 1965) is an American musician and

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, who plays

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among other instruments for

The String Cheese Incident The String Cheese Incident (SCI) is an American jam band from Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang (acoustic/electric mandolin, electric guitar, and violin), Michael Travis (drums and percus ...

, a

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from

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, of which he is a founding member. He has written and provides vocals for a number of songs for the band, including "Resume Man", "Joyful Sound" and "Sometimes a River". Before forming The String Cheese Incident, Moseley played guitar in the band Whiskey Creek Warriors, which played around the Colorado ski scene. Equipment Moseley primarily plays a Lakland 55-94 that he got in 1999. However, he also plays a variety of Fender Precision Basses. For amplification, Moseley uses Aguilar. He currently uses a pair of Aguilar DB751 heads and a pair of DB412 speaker cabinets. He occasionally will perform solo acts, playing acoustic versions of String Cheese Incident songs, and covers. He plays a Martin Dreadnaught acoustic while playing these gigs.

Side projects

In February 2006, Moseley recorded ''

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'', a

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under the band name Grateful Grass, featuring fellow musicians

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and

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(

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). Available only for digital download, the album featured non-traditional bluegrass versions of songs by the

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, with 100% of the proceeds going to the Rex Foundation. In 2007 he joined Keller Williams' for a project called The WMD's, or Keller Williams with Moseley, Droll and Sipe. In 2010 Keith released a record with The Contribution, a band whose collaborators include Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth as well as members of New Monsoon.

References

External links

String Cheese Incident official websiteKeith Moseley interview from 2006
1965 births Living people Songwriters from Oklahoma 20th-century American bass guitarists The String Cheese Incident members American rock bass guitarists {{US-bass-guitarist-stub