Alexander Herman "Whistlin' Alex" Moore (November 22, 1899 – January 20, 1989),[1] was an American blues pianist, singer and whistler.

[3] At the age of three, his family moved to El Paso, Texas, but returned to Dallas three years later for his father's job, who was a professional candy maker.

[1] He toured with the American Folk Blues Festival in 1969, performing on the same bill as Earl Hooker and Magic Sam.

[5] The same year he recorded a session in Stuttgart, Germany, which led to the release of the album Alex Moore in Europe.

Throughout the course of his adult life, his nonmusical jobs included hauling gravel, driving mule teams, washing dishes, working as a hotel porter, and as a custodian at office buildings.

By the time he became moderately well-known on the international blues scene of the 1960s and 1970s; his always singular style had burgeoned into florid eccentricity, and he would reminisce tirelessly in a foggy half-shout about youthful high times in his hometown, over skipping blues and boogie-woogie piano patterns with occasional bursts of shrill whistling.