Steve Forbert

Steve Forbert “Moving Through America”

June 7, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0

New collection from one of America’s most distinctive voices. Steve Forbert is one of the great unsung troubadours of American music from the past forty years or so. His first album ‘Alive on Arrival’ was released […]

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Forbert songs

May 6, 2021 Jim Finnie 10

Despite intense pressure from my Americana UK writing colleagues (which I have to say at times bordered on psychological torture and which has caused me to consider legal remedies), I am not going to cover the […]

A Night to Remember – Three great nights at the famous “Duck”

April 27, 2021 Jim Finnie 0

Give an AUK writer an inch and they’ll take a mile – certainly this one has in the interpretation of ‘A Night to Remember’ as it covers 3 nights and 3 different artists, but they all […]

Classic Americana Albums: Steve Forbert “Streets of This Town” (Geffen, 1988)

January 8, 2021 Richard Phillips 1

Forbert’s melancholy, introspective, lyrically intriguing songs are delivered with a passionate honesty that has won him many loyal fans over the years. BBC Radio 2’s Bob Harris has described Forbert as having, “One of the most […]

Steve Forbert “Jackrabbit Slim Live In Ashbury Park” (Blue Rose/Time Life, 2020)

December 17, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

During the seventies, there was a debate raging about who will be the next Bob Dylan. Music weeklies and monthlies were constantly compiling their lists, with the names of Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits to be […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers