Steve Forbert remains the great American troubadour, crisscrossing the country, guitar slung over his back and harmonica rack over his shoulders, celebrating the colorful diversity of life along America’s highways and byways. The swaggering title track of Forbert’s new album, […]
Particularly if you’ve been listening to Steve Forbert’s music for many years, you’re bound to have some fun with his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock. The book—which lifts its title from that of a track on Alive on Arrival, […]
Steve Forbert tells great stories. In his new memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock (PFP Publishing), he ambles at a leisurely pace over the terrain of his life, from his childhood and youth and first musical adventures in […]
For three years, the prevailing theme of my Best I’ve Ever Seen column has been musicians talking about the best concerts they attended by other artists. To mix it up a bit, I decided to broaden the theme and from […]
We’ve made it to the end of a rough week – the senseless murder of dozens of people gathered to enjoy music together, the death of beloved rock icon Tom Petty, [insert your preferred target of outrage here]. Thank heavens we have […]
In my last column, I asked several music writers what books have shaped, and continue to shape, their writing. Originally, I had planned on devoting one column to the books both music writers and musicians were reading, but the questions […]
Earlier this year, the music industry made a major shift to a universal release date. For years – decades, even – albums had been released on Tuesdays, with a different date set for international release. But now, all over the […]
I think it’s safe to say that I love and possibly thrive on music, like a big ugly weed that has this gigantic root system. No matter how many times you pull, another one comes back a day later, only […]
Steve Forbert will never forget the performance of Bob Marley and the Wailers with the I-Threes at New York’s Madison Square Garden in June 1978. It was “the best rock show I ever saw,” says Forbert. “Those girls in their […]
