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Steve Forbert – Perfect Stranger
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Meridian MS, United States (1978 – present)
Forbert signed a recording contract with Nemperor in 1978, and they released his debut album, Alive on Arrival, that same year. His song “Romeo’s Tune”, although “dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard” on the sleeve of Forbert’s second album Jackrabbit Slim (released in 1979), is not about Supremes singer Ballard who died in 1976. “Forbert admits that Ballard became a timely connection for “Romeo’s Tune”, written about a girl from Meridian. “That seemed like such bad news to me and such sad news. She wasn’t really taken care of by the music business, which is not a new story”. At around this time critics hailed Forbert as “The new Bob Dylan” because of a similar vocal timbre and thoughtful songwriting. The front cover of Jackrabbit Slim encourages such comparisons with its simplicity: a black and white photo of Steve Forbert playing a well-worn Martin acoustic guitar with a capo on it, his shirt tinted green. The record was recorded in Nashville and produced by John Simon who had worked with The Band.
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Top Albums
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Jackrabbit Slim
20,563 listeners10 tracks
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The Best Of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy?
12,093 listeners21 tracks
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Alive On Arrival
3,811 listeners12 tracks
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Over With You
718 listeners10 tracks
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Steve ForbertSunday 16 June 2013
Nottingham, United Kingdom
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wangyu199x
wow!
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BigDaddyrocks12
The version of Romeo's Tune here is THE WORST.
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songfactslastfm
“It is a great thing to have a good calling card, a song that's so popular and gives you some identification.” 34 years down the line and Steve Forbert still thinks highly of “Romeo's Tune.” Forbert talks us through the writing and recording (and re-recording, and re-recording) of his signature song: http://www.songfacts.com/blog/playingmysong/steve_forbert_-_romeo_s_tune_/
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tkdcoach
Deserves a much larger following.
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star_struck_one
STEVE WHAT?? I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LOUDER PLEASE.
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finlanders
GOOD
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AndoDoug
WHAT WAS YOUR NAME AGAIN?
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doctorjmo
my bro. loves this guy!!
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JaneyBaby5
I love love love Stevie! One of the best live acts EVER!!!!
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dls6464
Going to See Steve Tomorrow Night in a place that sits about 25 should be amazing
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brudenell
Friday 12th June STEVE FORBERT plus guest support at The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK Tickets £12 adv / £14 door available now from Jumbo Records, Crash Records, Seetickets and Wegottickets. Http://Www.Seetickets.Com/S.Asp?A=Steve+Forbert&P=5938 http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50308
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hellogoose
I love Romeo's Tune so much,gosh!!!
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SmilinSkullRing
Pictures added.
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SmilinSkullRing
His music is so good. I need to think about my top 5-10, but I'm In Love With You still tops the list as of now.
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tkdcoach
My top three are all off Mission of the Crossroad Palms, so much later, and then the remaining two are from Streets of This Town. The Forbert records from 1987-95 are up there with my all-time favorites by anyone.
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karish12
My Top 5 Steve Forbert 1 Romeo's Tune 2 Thirty Thousand Man 3 Going Down To Laurel 4 Something's Got a Hold On Me 5 Cellophane City __________________________________________
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