Austin Chronicle; Austin, Tx  In the 2009-2010 Austin Music Awards, published by the Austin Chronicle in March 2010, GBmojo places in the "Top 10 Indie Bands" of Austin (7th) and Ginger Doss makes it in the "Top 10 Keyboardists" (7th)!!! (Click links to see a complete listing of this years top 10's in Austin.)

Oklahoma Gazette; Oklahoma City, OK - July 1, 2009 GBmojo's show was featured as the Editor's Music Pick in the Oklahoma Gazette  in the weekly edition of "Hey Do This":

"Join singer/songwriters Ginger Doss and Bekah Kelso as Austin roots-folk duo GBmojo returns to Oklahoma City for a 7pm show tonight at Sauced, 2912 Paseo.  The chanteuses met while gigging around South Texas in 2002 and joined together in 2007, intertwining Doss' energetic, piano-led rock and Kelso's rootsy guitar work and breathy vocals..."

Austin Singer/Songwriters Are All Up In Each Other’s (Music) Business! Cruising Through the Economic Crunch, Ginger Doss and Bekah Kelso’s Partnership Pays Off at Double CD Release Event

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Texas Star Tribune - 8/14/09

Central Texas 'duo of solo artists' gets their GBmojo on

I first saw these talented young women in 2007 at an outdoor concert in Kerrville when Bekah Kelso, together with Ginger Doss, opened for Ray Wylie Hubbard and Mark Beno. Kelso did a well crafted and powerfully performed spoken word piece called Girl Around the Way.

I was immediately hooked. After they were through with their set, I wasn’t sure they shouldn’t have been headlining the event. But in the music world dues must be paid and they were actually just starting out. Together that is.

Come to find out, Bekah and Ginger had been putting long hours, days, months, and years into their craft. Ginger had been playing with the band Dreamtrybe and was seriously thinking of launching a solo career. Bekah had been playing the solo scene for a while and was vigorously working to get herself going in an upwardly mobile direction. The two met and found they were on the same plane, not only career-wise, but on a spiritual level as well. It seemed they were both on a quest and it showed up with a vengeance in their performances, both live and in the studio.

The two are pretty well known, and not just in Texas either. They have received rave reviews in Austin, Atlanta, and Oklahoma City, as well as other places.

A recent post on www.AustinChronicle.com said, “Bekah is a great songwriter and guitarist, and absolutely beautiful, but the reason you will come back again is to hear her sing."

"I was star struck at their performance!" said Madalyn Sklar, Founder of GoGirlsMusic.com, after a recent live show.

Martee Crosson of Amazon.com said of Ginger Doss, "Soul Stirring" may be a well-worn phrase, but it is all I can think of when it comes to [Ginger's] CD. The title song, "Come Down" is fabulous! This CD is well produced, musically rich, lyrically beautiful - and the drums will rule your heartbeat! By far, my absolute favorite CD..."

Earlier this year GBmojo performed at Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta, Georgia, in their nationally renowned Open Mic Competition. The two put their GBmojo on in front of a packed house and won! This particular competition is really huge. First of all there is about a two month waiting list for the honor to perform, so getting in was feat all it’s own. However, the key to this entire experience is the fact that winning this competition has proven to be a career launcher.

Even though there hasn’t been an “official” GBmojo release to date, that isn’t entirely true either. In a recent conversation I had with Bekah she stated, “We explain our collaboration by calling ourselves ‘a duo of solo artists’. People seem to get that and it makes them laugh occasionally too.”

She went on to say, “Both of our current releases are solo albums. We did it that way because it was to be a debut release for each of us. We both had our own ideas about how we wanted our first albums to be, and it just made the most sense to do it that way. But as you may have guessed, she sings and plays all over mine and I do the same on hers. There will be a GBmojo release for sure. Ginger still has a few more things she wants to do before we get to that though.”

You can tell the two are very proud of what they have done and are doing. Bekah said, “GBmojo is really special to the both of us and we are very proud of what we’re doing.”

I saw on their website (www.GBmojo.com) that they had been traveling and playing all over the country. They had even done a few house concerts, which seem to be all the rage of late. I asked if there were any plans in the near future of going on the road. She replied, “We are home in Central Texas until the end of September. Then we leave for a ten week tour of the Midwest and Gulf Coast.

The duo just released two new records of solo material, Bekah Kelso’s Mud Blossom and Ginger Doss’ This Cocoon. You can obtain both records by going to their website where they also have some pretty far out looking T-shirts you may want to add to your T-shirt collection.

This has been an enormously entertaining article to write. It’s always fun to meet, and get to know young up and coming artists here in Texas. There is definitely something very special going on here and I can’t wait to see what these two very talented young ladies have in store for us in the future.

I’ll have my ear to the ground as always, listening for the music.

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rames@texasstartribune.com

Atlanta Public Radio - 2/3/09

Last night (2/2/09) GBMOJO performed for the very first time at the famous Eddie's Attic open mic competition. They played to a packed room along with some other amazing performers (Shadowboxer!) and won! If you're not familiar, the competition, which has received national attention due to its long standing contribution to the Atlanta music scene, has a two month waiting list and has served as a spring board to many successful songwriter's careers.

"We heard about the competition from our friend and fellow songwriter Eric Nasseau in Colombus, Ohio. He told us if we were ever in Atlanta to check it out. So we did. We signed up months ago and were very excited."

Atlanta public radio WABE 90.1 was there doing a story on the event.  Click the link above to hear the full story recently broadcast on WABE, featuring the music of GBmojo and the story behind this historic open mic competition.  Also within the next 24 hours, live MP3's of the winning performances will be made available for download on www.GBMOJO.com - so keep checking the site.

"We were surprised and honored to win. We will be back at Eddie's on the first Saturday in June competing in their bi-annual, grand prize "Open Mic Shoot Out" with all the other winners."

Bekah and Ginger now continue with the last couple of weeks of their Traveling Fates tour, which adds the incomparable talents of SJ Tucker to their mix . Soon after they will be going home to prepare for their long awaited Double CD release in March.

Citypages Magazine - June 2005

'This Texas girl with a round about way lives her life directed by moments and spirit. She is not the formal education type or a brilliant young novice. What she is, is beautiful, passionate, and one of the most real people I have had the pleasure of meeting. Talking with her conjured the question in me, how can one body hold so much soul? Then of course the answer followed, her music is part of her that is too much to keep inside. It is a soul set free if you will. Her indirect path that has shaped her into a young woman who is not afraid of the road less traveled.'

'As much as talking with her moved my spirit, hearing her music moved my soul. I suppose now I understand better how music can be defined as soul. Her voice is full and strong, full of power and life.'

GBmojo Buzz:
"I was star struck at their performance!"
          - Madalyn Sklar - Founder of GoGirlsMusic.com commenting after attending a recent live show

Bekah Kelso Blurbs:
Austin Chronicle Music Website 12/11/08:
"Bekah is a great songwriter and guitarist, and absolutely beautiful, but the reason you will come back again is to hear her sing."

Ginger Doss Press:
"Soul Stirring" may be a well-worn phrase, but it is all I can think of when it comes to [Ginger's] CD. The title song, "Come Down" is fabulous! ... this CD is well produced, musically rich, lyrically beautiful - and the drums will rule your heartbeat! By far, my absolute favorite CD..."
- Martee Crosson, Amazon.com

Awards for Ginger:
The Austin Chronicle Music Awards:
In Best Keyboards category (with band Dreamtrybe) Ginger places 2nd - 2002
In Best Keyboards category (with band Dreamtrybe) Ginger places 6th - 2001
In Best Keyboards category (with band Dreamtrybe) Ginger places 3rd - 2000