Live music picks for TUESDAY MARCH 6 through TUESDAY MARCH 13, 2012. TUESDAY MARCH 6 / MOE. / THE MOD CLUB / 722 COLLEGE / $29 / ALL AGES Hardcore fans of jam band moe. refer to themselves as "moe.rons." Not the most clever handle, but there's certainly no disputing their taste in music. This is a band that really must be seen live - as good as their studio albums are (with this year's Whatever Happened to the LA-LA's continuing the trend), their [...]
XPN Welcomes Steve Forbert to the Tin Angel tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the 21+ shows are $25. Watch a couple of our favorite Forbert tunes below including a performance of "It Isn't Gonna Be That Way" from the Old Grey Whistle Test from May, 1979.
Steve Forbert has a new song called "Set The World Ablaze" " that you can download for free below . Forbert explains the song: The song, mastered in October 2011, is a protest piece about those who profited the most from the events leading up to the 2008 financial meltdown - and those who have profited "big time" from its taxpayer bailout aftermath. Steve Forbert is playing two shows at the Tin Angel on Friday, November 25th and Saturday, Noevmeber 26th. Tickets and information [...]
Steve Forbert : Big City Cat [ purchase ] I'm sure there will be a stronger feline presence here as the week goes on. The "cat" in Big City Cat is thoroughly human, and the word only comes up at the end of the lyrics. But Big City Cat is a song about beginnings, so it seemed like a good place to start. Steve Forbert arrived in New York City from Meridian, Misissippi, intent on making a living as a musician. His material was well suited to the New York City [...]
Steve Forbert : Born Too Late [ purchase ] Steve Forbert is one of those artists whose early career is a case study in major label mismanagement. His debut album in 1978 was Alive on Arrival. The album revealed a young man full of optimism who had hooks galore and played a sunny brand of folk-pop. He was also a talented songwriter who had a gift for evoking a sense of place, and whose songs radiated warmth and good humor. Jackrabbit Slim, the follow-up, showed production that was somewhat more heavyhanded, [...]
Steve Forbert - Settle Down The Mud Hut
It's always fascinated me how, as social animals who can both project future possibilities and mutate our environment to our benefit, we're nonetheless driven to make peace with our own foibles, accommodate small stumbling blocks, and work around difficulties otherwise solvable and surmountable. A case in point: the 9 key on my laptop keyboard has been broken since last winter, and - as removing the key cap to clean underneath it proved ineffective - I have been forced to conclude that there is something electronically awry here, somewhere in the circuitry. [...]
Steve Forbert: Goin' Down to Laurel Off Alive on Arrival , Forbert's debut produced by John Simon (who did the same for The Band). Forbert, aside from apparently drawing comparisons to Bob Dylan, played Cyndi Lauper's tuxedo clad boyfriend in the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" video.
I'm down in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina once again, just like last year, on the cusp of a whole week of for what is fast becoming an annual gathering of extended family and friends. We left just after school on Friday, and I did the lion's share of the driving, just over twelve hours of overnight while the kids and spouse napped in the car; since we hit the sandy soil of Kitty Hawk just before sunup this morning, we've hit up sand and surf, sucked down breakfast barbecue and beer, [...]
I don't think of Steve Forbert ( here , here and here ) as a lighthearted or particularly funny songwriter, but this new song from the upcoming LP The Place And The Time is just that. It reminds me more of a Loudon Wainwright song than a classic Steve Forbert tune. Pre-order an autographed copy here from Steve Forbert. {Abbreviated post due to a nasty intestinal bug - you don't want to hear the details!} [...]
My latest strategy for getting the kids off to school with the least amount of stress is to simply walk out the door, hop into the car, put on some music, open a book and wait for them to catch up. Saves me having to say (400 times): "will you please put on your X, pick your Y and get your A out the door". I had this one rolling when my 10-year old got in the car this morning and it stopped him dead in his tracks. He didn't say anything until the song was over then picked up [...]
Steve Forbert : Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977 [ purchase ] Joni Mitchell : For Free [ purchase ] As the holiday season begins to wind down, I hope it has brought joy and love of family to all. Part of our theme this week is fellowship, and it seems to me that there can be no greater act of fellowship than the giving of a gift. In these hard times, I am starting to see accounts [...]
My interest in Harry Nilsson came through coversong, most specifically 1995 covers album For The Love Of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson , which I picked up when it was new in order to gain access to otherwise-unavailable rarities from Marc Cohn, Aimee Mann, and a solid roster of other perfectly tuned oddities (like, say, Fred Schneider of the B-52s doing a pitch-perfect version of Coconut , or the infamous nasal harmonies of The Roches applied to a space-age Spaceman ). Purchasing the album was a revelation: here was a set of tunes that [...]
My interest in Harry Nilsson came through coversong, most specifically 1995 covers album For The Love Of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson , which I picked up when it was new in order to gain access to otherwise-unavailable rarities from Marc Cohn, Aimee Mann, and a solid roster of other perfectly tuned oddities (like, say, Fred Schneider of the B-52s doing a pitch-perfect version of Coconut , or the infamous nasal harmonies of The Roches applied to a space-age Spaceman ). Purchasing the album was a revelation: here was a set of tunes that [...]
This is from Young, Guitar Days, released in 2001. It is a collection of outtakes and B-sides recorded during his days with the Nemporer label from 1978 to 1981. I don't get why they weren't released as I think some are his best. MP3 File
There's a new(-ish) radio station in town here, WRXP - New York's Rock Experience , that has single-handedly renewed my interest in the art of radio programming. In fact, I've resisted more than once the urge just to post a set of 5 or 6 songs in a row they've played just to comment on how nicely done it was. They do most of the things I like, such as not relying on big artists' crutch hits (they play a bunch of Zeppelin but I've yet to hear "Stairway to Heaven," tonight they played The Beatles' [...]
This Bob Dylan song just seemed perfect for my own mood today. I didn't have Bob, but I did have Steve. MP3 File
It's school vacation, and we really needed a change of scene. So we headed down south to North Carolina's Outer Banks , just me, the wife and kids, and a whole host of other relatives from both sides of the gene pool: my father, my wife's parents, siblings on both sides, even a few great-aunts and grandparent-in-laws. None of us live here, but it's as good a neutral midpoint as any; we've rented two houses down the street from each other just to fit everyone comfortably, and the trip promises to be memorable no matter what [...]
Steve Forbert moved to New York from his native Mississippi in 1976 and busked Grand Central Station from whence came his first record deal. This song is from his first album, Alive on Arrival, released in 1978. Romeo's Tune in '79 was probably his biggest hit. He has had some low points in his career and has bounced around a few recording labels. Just Like There's Nothin' To It was released in 2004. Forbert also released two compilations around the same time, Young, Guitar Days and More Young, Guitar Days. [...]
There may occasionally be a line in a song that you identify with but rarely do you hear an entire lyric and think it describes your life. Following an up-tempo, Asbury Jukes style, intro Forbert steps up and opens his latest album Strange Names & New Sensations by stating ' middle age is different/now you're someone else '. At 52 his exploration of what it means to be ' further to the end' is both accurate and understated without ever being bitter or romantic. Such songwriting is why, thirty years after Alive on Arrival [...]
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