Inside Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: David Moore and Westridge on the Take

A Bedroom Studio in Rural Texas Turns Decades-Old Songs Into a Ten-Track Americana Album

Guitars ring out first on Our Trip In The Sun. Then a voice arrives with its highs and mids pushed forward, a slightly megaphone-like treatment that makes the record sound older than it is. That is the opening of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, the second album from David Moore and Westridge. The record mixes Americana, alt-country and folk rock, and it came out on 8 May 2023.

David Moore and Westridge’s title track sits in the playlist below, and every earlier feature is gathered on David Moore’s artist profile. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Hit play, then read on.

Inside Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: David Moore and Westridge on the Take

A Converted Bedroom in Knox City and the Wave of Home-Recorded Americana It Belongs To

The room behind the record is a converted bedroom in rural northwest Texas. Moore built a studio there after he retired from a 35-year career in the airline industry. Before that, he had spent 17 years away from music to raise a family. So the wave this album belongs to is easy to name. It is the songwriters who record at home, release without a label and still find listeners in dozens of countries.

Moore grew up in Dallas. He took piano lessons as a small child. After that, he taught himself everything else, starting with a Yamaha six-string acoustic his sister handed him at 16. In his thirties, he played Dallas and Fort Worth clubs in cover bands. He also cut a single on vinyl in 1984. Meanwhile, he learned multitrack production on a Tascam 34 four-track reel-to-reel.

That history explains the material. Moore told FVMusicBlog that these songs date from the 1970s to the 1990s. Most of them came out of past romances or close friendships. His first album, Seventeen, arrived in November 2022 and passed 10,000 Spotify streams within three months. Then Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow followed six months later, ten tracks long and in no hurry.

From Dallas Club Bands to a Knox City Bedroom, Where David Moore and Westridge Fits

The name carries the story. Westridge is a tribute to Moore’s best friend, Jim Patterson, who died in 2013. The two met at the Westridge House Apartments in Denton, Texas, and they wrote songs together. According to Moore, you can hear some of Patterson’s guitar playing on this album. He also learned parts of Patterson’s style from old recordings. In fact, Spotify credits Patterson on You, the fourth track.

The writing follows a simple method. Most songs start with a chord progression or a hook that turns up while Moore is just playing. A melody follows, and then the words arrive. As a result, the songs stay close to the guitar, and the lyrics deal with people: friendships, old flames and the distance between them.

Christine, Down By The Sea and the Title Track Show the Range of the Record

Christine is the storytelling centre of the album, and FVMusicBlog singled it out for its writing. Down By The Sea runs a tight three minutes and six seconds on a melody built for repeat plays. Meanwhile, Worldly Girl pushes past five minutes and takes the album in a different direction. Finally, the title track closes things in three minutes and 23 seconds.

The production matters as much as the songs. The Edgar Allan Poets review pointed to that vocal treatment, with its upper frequencies lifted, as the reason the album sounds like the 1970s. However, none of it feels like pastiche. Moore produces his own work, and his arrangements leave the guitars plenty of room.

Led Zeppelin’s Acoustic Side and Neil Young’s Harvest Sit Closest to This Americana Album

Moore names his first influence himself. Communication Breakdown hooked him on a car radio as a teenager. Soon after, the first album he bought was Led Zeppelin III. He would lie on his back with a speaker on each side of his head, studying the arrangements and the mix. Led Zeppelin matters here for a specific reason. Led Zeppelin III (1970) turned Jimmy Page’s band toward acoustic guitar on songs like That’s the Way and Tangerine. Similarly, Moore writes most of his songs on an acoustic first.

The second neighbour is Neil Young. Harvest (1972) set songs about love and getting older over acoustic guitar and a country-rock band. That pairing became the template for much of what people now call Americana. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow works the same seam. It moves between folk, country and rock from track to track, yet the subject matter stays steady.

Coverage followed the release in 2023. Beyond FVMusicBlog and Edgar Allan Poets, Illustrate Magazine ran an interview in which Moore walked through his influences, his years away from music and his return. IndieRock.News has kept up with him since, from the Hully Gully single in April 2024 to the Get The Led Out! album that June.

From the IndieRock.News Curator Team: “Put The Lemming Song on when the room has gone quiet. At six minutes and 18 seconds it is the longest track on the record, and the length gives the guitars space to stretch out. That patience is the best argument for hearing the album in order.”

Where to Hear David Moore and Westridge, From Spotify and Apple Music to Bandcamp and Tidal

Who is it for? It suits listeners raised on seventies rock radio who drifted toward Americana. It also suits anyone who prefers the acoustic side of Led Zeppelin III to the heavy one. So start with Our Trip In The Sun, stay for Christine, and let the title track close the set.

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