Steve Forbert - Flying At Night (2016)

Europe-only release to coincide with Steve Forbert's autumn tour; Flying At Night is a collaboration with longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Crawford. Steve Forbert travelled to New York City from Mississippi in 1976 and played guitar for spare change in Grand Central Station. He vaulted to international prominence with the folk-pop hit, "Romeo's Tune", during a time when the singer-songwriter era had all but ended and Talking Heads, Blondie, and other New Wave and punk acts were moving into the public consciousness. Still, critics raved about Forbert's poetic lyrics and engaging melodies, and the crowds at CBGB's in New York accepted him alongside those acts. Forbert says "I completed nine unfinished songs that span several decades - a couple from way back before I left Mississippi, one about my post-rehab life in a culture of alcohol advertisements, one about a rare hour of downtime I had while on tour in 1988 with Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. Anthony Crawford and I have worked together off and on since 1992. As producer of Flying at Night, he ran free with the tunes, adding whatever he wanted from his home studio toy box - lead guitar, bass, drums, fiddle, and mandolin." Crawford, a recording artist in his own right, has toured with Neil Young, Steve Winwood,and Dwight Yoakam. Forbert's autobiography "Big City Cat" will be published later this year.