Steve Forbert - Streets Of This Town

Styles: Vocal, Guitar, Folk
Year: 1988
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:19
Size: 88,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:35)  1. Running On Love
(3:34)  2. Don't Tell Me ( I Know)
(4:48)  3. I Blinked Once
(3:30)  4. Mexico
(3:20)  5. As We Live And Breathe
(3:41)  6. On The Streets Of This Town
(3:44)  7. Hope Faith And Love
(3:35)  8. Perfect Stranger
(3:51)  9. Wait A Little Longer
(4:38) 10. Search Your Heart

Steve Forbert began his career as auspiciously as any young artist could have possibly hoped a recording contract by the time he was 23, a critically acclaimed debut record, and a hit single from its follow-up. On the flip side, in just five years he found himself in record industry limbo when his label wouldn't release what would have been his fifth album, while at the same time refusing to free him from his contract. Following a drawn-out legal battle, Forbert, with the help of E Street Band bassist Garry W. Tallent, returned nearly six years later with 1988's Streets of This Town. As producer, Tallent succeeds in capturing Forbert's folk-rock at its best, with just the right mix of muscle ("Don't Tell Me [I Know]," "Wait a Little Longer"), pop ("Running On Love," "Perfect Stranger"), and insight ("I Blinked Once," "Search Your Heart"). He also brings a cohesiveness to Forbert's sound that had been lacking since his first recording. And while there are understandable bits of frustration and anger throughout, there's also a prevailing feeling of "Hope, Faith and Love" (a song title), as well as a refreshing sense of perspective. Just the fact that he kicks things off with the buoyant "Running on Love" and closes with the beautifully uplifting "Search Your Heart" lets you know that this isn't whiny, singer/songwriter fodder. At 33, Forbert is wise enough to know that what's done is done, and the only way to move beyond it is to look forward. Despite a welcome reception at the time of its release, Streets of This Town never quite fulfilled the commercial hope set for Steve Forbert back in the late '70s. Still, it was a strong comeback, and his best since Alive On Arrival was issued ten years prior. ~ Brett Hartenbach https://www.allmusic.com/album/streets-of-this-town-mw0000196340

Personnel:  Steve Forbert - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Lead Guitar on (2) & (9); Clay Barnes - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals;  Danny Counts - Bass;  Paul Erricho - Keyboards, Backing Vocals;  Bobby Lloyd Hicks - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals

Streets Of This Town

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Steve Forbert - Flying at Night

Styles: Guitar, Folk
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:30
Size: 78,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:16)  1. Flying at Night
(3:15)  2. Belle of Baltimore
(3:03)  3. Dream Song
(1:51)  4. An Hour or So
(2:27)  5. Dear Angel
(3:39)  6. Never Trust a Man Who Doesn't Drink
(2:34)  7. Listen to the Mockingbird
(3:25)  8. Out in the World
(3:40)  9. What If Her Love Should Fail?
(4:01) 10. Quiet Day
(3:16) 11. Surf's Out (Instrumental)

On October 14 singer/songwriter Steve Forbert is releasing a joyride of a new album. Flying at Night, recorded as a collaboration with his longtime friend, multi-instrumentalist Anthony Crawford, is a pleasure from beginning to end.“My booking agent in England asked me if I could possibly come up with a release to precede this year’s Fall UK tour,” says Forbert. “I completed nine unfinished songs that span several decades a couple from way back before I left Mississippi, one about my post-rehab life in a culture of alcohol advertisements, one about a rare hour of downtime I had while on tour in 1988 with Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians.” Flying at Night will be a UK-only release distributed by Shellshock. “Anthony Crawford and I have worked together off and on since he guested on my album The American in Me (Geffen Records, 1992),” says Forbert. “As producer of Flying at Night, he ran free with the tunes, adding whatever he wanted from his home studio toy box lead guitar, bass, drums, fiddle, and mandolin.” Crawford, a recording artist in his own right, has toured with Neil Young, Steve Winwood,and Dwight Yoakam.

Steve Forbert traveled to New York City from Mississippi in 1976 and played guitar for spare change in Grand Central Station. He vaulted to international prominence with the folk-pop hit, “Romeo’s Tune,” during a time when the singer-songwriter era had all but ended and Talking Heads, Blondie, and other New Wave and punk acts were moving into the public consciousness. Still, critics raved about Forbert’s poetic lyrics and engaging melodies, and the crowds at CBGB’s in New York accepted him alongside hose acts. “I’ve never been interested in changing what I do to fit emerging trends,” Forbert observes. “Looking back on it, I was helping to keep a particular tradition alive at a time when it wasn’t in the spotlight”a tradition that has since seen a thriving resurgence as the Americana genre. Forbert has amassed a catalog of well-crafted, unforgettable songs on such albums as Streets of This Town, The American in Me, Mission of the Crossroad Palms, and Just Like There’s Nothin’ to It. 

His tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004. He was inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame in 2010. “Flying at Night makes for a great companion piece to the autobiography I’ve been working on for two years.” The book, called Big City Cat, covers Forbert’s entire career with a colorful look at his midseventies experiences playing both folk and New Wave clubs in Greenwich Village. Big City Cat will be published this fall by pfp Publishing in Boston. http://www.steveforbert.com/news/flying_at_night.html

Flying at Night

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