Steve Forbert
March 25, 2009 by Andrew Watt
Filed under What Have You Been Doing Lately?
Steve Forbert was one of several 70’s singer songwriters that were labelled with the accolade “the new Bob Dylan”. Of course he wasn’t and didn’t even aspire to be but he was a mighty good songwriter.
He never really stopped working though and has released a steady stream of albums over the years. His latest is entitled The Place And The Time is about to be released in the US and hopefully will find its way here.
Steve Forbert was born on December 13, 1955 in Meridian, Mississippi and is best known for his song Romeo’s Tune, which reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980.
The song was lifted from his album Jackrabbitt Slim which had been recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and produced by John Simon, who had worked with The Band. A little known fact about Forbert is that he has a cameo appearance in Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun video, playing her boyfriend.
Even though he never again reached the commercial heights of Romeo’s Tune in total he has released twelve studio albums, three live sets and four DVDs since 1978 – to say nothing of the several compilations and archival releases that are available through his website (www.steveforbert.com).
His fill discography is impressive:
* Alive on Arrival Nemperor/CBS Records, 1978
* Jackrabbit Slim Nemperor, 1979
* Little Stevie Orbit Nemperor, 1980
* Steve Forbert Nemperor, 1982
* Streets Of This Town Geffen Records, 1988
* The American In Me Geffen Records, 1992
* Best of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy? 1993
* Be Here Now: Solo Live 1994
* King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents Steve Forbert
* Mission of the Crossroad Palms Giant/Warner Bros. Records, 1995
* Rocking Horse Head Giant/Warner Bros. 1996
* Here’s Your Pizza 1997
* Be Here Again: Solo Live 1998
* Evergreen Boy 2000
* Acoustic Live: The WFUV Concert 2000
* Live at the Bottom Line 2000
* Young Guitar Days 2001
* More Young Guitar Days 2002
* Any Old Time (Songs of Jimmie Rodgers) 2002
* Solo Live in Bethlehem 2002
* Rock While I Can Rock: The Geffen Years 2003
* Just Like There’s Nothin’ to It 2004
* Good Soul Food – Live at the Ark Rolling Tide Records 2004
* DVD Anthology: You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play 2005
* It’s Been A Long Time: Live Acoustic With Paul Errico 2006
* Strange Names & New Sensations 2007
* Best of the Downloads Vols. 1 + 2 2008
* The Time and The Place – release date 3/31/09