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| From | "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald@attbi.com> |
| Subject | Steve Forbert |
| Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:20:21 -0700 |
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Stewart on Steve Forbert:
> 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.
It IS a good comp, but my favorite Forbert is still his first, ALIVE ON ARRIVAL. Haven't spun it for a while, but I can still play that sucker in my head all the way through. "Goin' Down To Laurel," "What Kinda Guy," "You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play," ---great stuff. "It Isn't Gonna Be That Way" STILL almost makes me cry.
I bought it the same day in 1978 that I bought John Prine's BRUISED ORANGE. Those two albums and Aztec Two Step's debut are probably my favorite singer/songwriter records ever.
Drew
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