Daniel Martin Moore is back, and I guess he never really left now did he? After a long 2009 which saw Daniel touring with friend Ben Sollee promoting their album Dear Companion, Daniel is ready to release his second solo album early in 2011. The new album, titled In The Cool Of The Day will be publicly available January 18th, once again from Sub Pop Records. Daniel won new artist of the year in 2008 at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards for his debut album, Stray Age.

Here is what fellow Kentuckian and friend Jim James from My Morning Jacket had to say about In The Cool Of The Day.

Daniel Martin Moore’s “In The Cool of the Day” all started with an old piano, situated in the heart of cincinnati’s WVXU studios. what had been scheduled to be a routine interview and in-studio performace turned into otherworldly inspiration when moore sat down and plunked away at the old 9 foot steinway, once used as the main instrument by the Cincinnati symphony orchestra. god spoke to moore that day thru the ancient piano’s reverberant tones- and expanded upon an idea that had already planted itself in the young singer-songwriter’s head some time before: to make a “spiritual” album of time tested family gospel favorites remembered from growing up, but to also add a few new tunes of his own in the same vein. said god to moore thru the bass notes resounding off the old soundboard: “make this album for your family- but also release it unto the world as your next studio recording.”

You can grab the first song from the new album right now, and all it will cost you is an email address, you can do that below.