Artist: Steve Forbert
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #70 July-August 2007
Steve Forbert – Strange Names & New Sensations
When “Romeo’s Tune” bubbled out of late ’70s car radios, it was a wide-eyed kid from the small-town south trying to get the girl with every innocent fiber of his being. Three decades later, Steve Forbert — the Mississippi troubadour and one more casualty of the New Dylan follies — removes the desperation and makes [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Steve Forbert – The possible dream
“Tomorrow is Arlington, Virginia, then Shirley, Massachusetts, Pittsfield Mass. — it just goes on and on,” Steve Forbert says during a day off on the Jersey shore. “The last month has been pretty busy. Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Lafayette, Indiana, Champaign, Illinois, Chicago, and I got out to Texas.” There’s no tallying the miles for the [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #42 Nov-Dec 2002
Steve Forbert – Any Old Time: Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers’ body of work, some 100-odd tracks culled from a recording career cut short by tuberculosis, cannot be overestimated. Artists through the years, from 1997′s tribute platter of heavy hitters (Bob Dylan, Dwight Yoakam, Van Morrison) to perhaps the best of the lot, Merle Haggard’s epic, heartfelt 1969 double album, Same Train, A Different [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Steve Forbert – Valentine’s (Albany, NY)
Three songs into Steve Forbert’s solo set, in the middle of “Going Down to Laurel”, a middle-aged, Mike Ditka look-alike in a golf shirt is swooning against a speaker at the side of the stage, exclaiming “Sheesh!” over and over to himself. As the applause subsides, he blows out through his thick brush of a [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Steve Forbert – Young, Guitar Days
From the first note of Young, Guitar Days, you’re re-immersed in that Alive On Arrival sound — a loose, earthy mix of acoustic guitar, piano, pedal steel, and Steve Forbert’s wispy, whispery, distinctly Southern voice, an awkward instrument that, through absolute precision, intimacy, and unorthodox phrasing, manages to convey untold emotion. The devastating “House Of [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Steve Forbert – Evergreen Boy
On Steve Forbert’s first studio album since 1996, producer Jim Dickinson adds his own mix of laid-back Memphis soul and experimentation to the singer’s streetwise folk music. “Something’s Got A Hold On Me” kicks things off, echoing Forbert’s earlier rollicking style with his trademark cracked voice and trilling harmonica. After this familiar beginning, however, Dickinson’s [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Steve Forbert – An Old Dylan rocks his horse head to a New Sincerity
I can’t recall the year. Steve Forbert is playing a solo show at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, North Carolina, and in the front row sits a man and his two sons. Dad’s in a Beatles T-shirt, and the two boys are honoring Jimi Hendrix and Rage Against the Machine — kind of a 100%-cotton rock [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Steve Forbert – Rocking Horse Head
The tenderness and longing expressed on Steve Forbert’s new album, especially the way he wraps these emotions up in his warm, sandpapery vocals, at times recalls early Rod Stewart classics such as “Handbags and Gladrags” and “An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down”. The record’s musical settings — electric folk-rock with country textures and [...]
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