“I never had the inclination to completely go up against my dad – writing blues never came naturally up until this point”: How Jack Moore is expressing his own sonic identity with Marshall amps, wah pedal extremity – and his father's signature Les Paul

Jack Moore frets a chord on his black Les Paul Standard.

Growing up the son of a blues and rock legend, Jack Moore knew he’d eventually be compared to his father, Irish blues master Gary Moore. But it’s never been a struggle for the 37-year-old guitarist.

“You can go with what your dad did and take that route, but I never had the inclination to completely go up against him in terms of going into the blues,” he says. “I've always had a huge passion for guitar, so whatever I was gonna do would always be supplemented by that, but writing blues never came naturally up until this point.”