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steve forbert early morning rain

5/15/2020

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​Steve Forbert  (from the album Early Morning Rain available on Blue Rose Music)
A wizened storyteller of his own tales, Steve Forbert collects the songs of fellow musicians, re-imagining their words and music on his recent release, Early Morning Rain. Even if the album did not benefit from the care and consideration that Steve Forbert gives each and every note, his vocal the perfect mix of hope and heartache for the Judy Collins hit “Someday Soon”. If the charisma of a sideshow barker seducing with a smile in The Kinks “Supersonic Rocket Ship”, the bartalk gossip Blues of “Frankie and Johnny”, or the sad cowboy crooner in Richard and Linda Thompson’s “Withered and Died” cannot make you a believer, there is a prize still needed to be handed over. Steve Forbert deserves some sort of plaque, commemoration, or horseshoe flower trophy for his record collection.
 
The songs that Steve Forbert has collected are gems with tracks that have run along divided musical lines in their original form. Steve Forbert pays back the kindness offered him to the songwriters that have given him lifelong friends by stamping the tunes on Early Morning Rain with a style the NYC songman has polished during his twenty-album, forty-plus year career. Steve Forbert shares the simple rational behind the album as ‘I recorded this album to renew people’s appreciation for the fine craftsmanship these songs represent and as an acknowledgment of how much good ‘ol songs like these have meant to me’. The cuts span decades going back to 1958 for the Charlie Walker hit, Harlan Howard-penned “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” to Bob Dylan’s 1994 release, “Dignity”. The first hits for two of his fellow songwriters are added to the listing for Early Morning Rain with “Suzanne” from Leonard Cohen and “Your Song” from Elton John included in the Steve Forbert covers. A song that mirrors the times closely, Steve Forbert offers a fine version of a Danny O’Keefe cut, his voice perfectly pinning the isolation of “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blue”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Steve Forbert from AMAZON
 
For more information, please visit the Steve Forbert website
 
 
 

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