A little over 43 years ago, Meridian, MS, native Steve Forbert boarded a train bound for New York City. Twenty-one years old at the time, Forbert, with his guitar and harmonica, spent two years ...
Call it a comeback. In 1988 folk-rocker Steve Forbert returned from a mess of music business legal matters preventing him from releasing new music. His previous self-titled album in 1982 wasn’t well ...
Sky-high gas prices are not only making life on the road more expensive for singer-songwriter Steve Forbert, they also are informing his show. Forbert wrote a tune called "The Oil Song" back in the ...
Those 40-plus years are documented in Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock, which began life as a stage play and morphed into a book with co-author Therese Boyd. Forbert drew from his own remembrances ...
Steve Forbert's brush with superstardom came in the late 1970s with his hit song "Romeo's Tune." It was a case of the right thing at the wrong time, as the reign of great singer-songwriters like ...
While daylight savings time may be the practice of advancing clocks so darkness falls at a later time during the summer months, it also served as the title and inspiration for Steve Forbert’s newest ...
Steve Forbert (born Samuel Stephen Forbert, December 13, 1954 in Meridian, Mississippi) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached No. 11 on the ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Steve Forbert will be in Buffalo on Sunday for a show at Babeville. Forbert, known for his second album, “Jackrabbit Slim,” which produced the ...
Upon his emergence in the 1970s, Steve Forbert was grouped with a crop of new talents hailed as “the new Dylans,” and there’s no greater compliment for a singer-songwriter. But being measured against ...
Building on 26 years and 10 studio albums since his 1978 debut, Alive on Arrival, Steve Forbert has matured into a canny observer of the human comedy, capturing his subjects with the sharp-eyed ...
Always in the shadow of neighboring New York, New Jersey often doesn’t get its due. The Garden State, though, will always be close to the heart of singer-songwriter Steve Forbert. Forbert, whose new ...