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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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