Rex Moroux

about

"I've been a drunk, a lover, occasional liar, sweetheart, asshole, unemployed troublemaker, raconteur, bon vivant, wannabe Teddy boy, wannabe Bob Dylan, and on occasion a pretty goddamned good boyfriend." That's Louisiana singer/songwriter Rex Moroux's self-assessment, offered not as lyrics in a confessional tune -- though the sentence does take on a sweet little rhythm -- but in answer to a question regarding what jobs he held before embarking on his music career. Rex Moroux, started composing songs while living in Los Angeles, where he'd gone in 2000 to write for a playhouse after attending Loyola in New Orleans and the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. He'd already written a play and wound up doing some pieces for actors' workshops, but once he discovered songwriting, he knew he had found what he wanted to do. "It's such a beautiful, simple, and wonderfully enlightening form," Moroux explains. "I view songs as immortal; they are on the wind, they can't be burned or banned. I grew up in the heart of Cajun Louisiana, so it always seemed like music was in the air. It usually was, but even when it was silent, someone was crying. I think that's what it comes down to. People who write honest songs are criers." Since then Rex has been doing nothing but writing and singing, devoting himself to developing his art and his 3 studio albums: 105 and Lullaby, Royal Street Inn, and his newest release, These Bricks Are Bleeding. Produced and recorded in Brooklyn, NY by Roger Green