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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Steve Forbert |
| Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:58:44 -0400 |
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At 06:42 PM 6/19/2003 -0600, Lee Elliott wrote:
>> There are a lot of cheesy 70s radio songs that I really liked and still
>do:
>
>I heard a snip of 'The Romeo Song' by Steve Forbet and I had to order it -
>there was only a little bit of the song and now I have to hear the entire
>album and research the artist before I can be honest with myself about
>whether I like it or hate it. I think I like it (alot) - but I suspect that
>I'm not supposed to for some reason.
As Gary said, there's not much at all to dislike about Steve Forbert; poor
guy got tarred with that same New Dylan brush that screwed up Loudon
Wainwright III and Elliott Murphy (is there a similar death knell for a new
performer this decade?), but just about all of his albums have at least a
handful of good-to-great songs. There's a solid compilation of his four or
five CBS albums, WHAT KINDA GUY?, that came out on Columbia Legacy about
ten years ago.
S
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