Rock While I Can Rock:The Geffen Years

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2 LPs On 1 CD: STREETS OF THIS TOWN (1988)/THE AMERICAN IN ME (1992). Personnel includes: Steve Forbert (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica); Clay Barnes (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Nils Lofgren, Pete Anderson (guitar); Paul Errico (keyboards, background vocals); Skip Edwards (keyboards); Danny Counts, Dusty Wakeman, Bob Glaub (bass); Bobby Lloyd (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jeff Donovan (drums); Lenny Castro, Alex Acuna (percussion); Anthony Crawford (background vocals). Producers: Garry Tallent, Pete Anderson. Compilation producers: Mike Ragogna, Steve Forbert. Recorded at Shorefire Recording Studio, Long Branch, New Jersey and Track Record Studios, North Hollywood, California. Personnel: Steve Forbert (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica); Clay Barnes (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Nils Lofgren, Pete Anderson (electric guitar); Paul Errico (keyboards, background vocals); Skip Edwards (keyboards); Bobby Lloyd Hicks (drums, percussion, background vocals); Jeff Donovan (drums); Ernest Carter, Lenny Castro, Alex Acuna (percussion); Ralph Forbes (drum programming); Andrea Robinson, Anthony Crawford , Tommy Funderburk (background vocals). Audio Mixers: David Leonard ; Michael Frondelli; Bob Clearmountain. Liner Note Author: Scott Schinder. Recording information: Shorefire Recording Studio, Long Branch, NJ; Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, TN; Track Record Studios, North Hollywood, CA. Photographers: Lee Thomas; Richard Litt; Jeff Morris . Arrangers: Pete Anderson ; Steve Forbert. It's easy for folks to think of Steve Forbert as a singer/songwriter who burned out early -- after all, his debut album, 1978's Alive on Arrival, was his strongest critical success, and the follow-up, 1979's Jackrabbit Slim, was his biggest seller (and featured his only hit single, "Romeo's Tune"). But while his next two albums were hit-and-miss and Forbert dropped off the radar after record company troubles kept him out of the studio for six years, 1988's Streets of This Town found him in fine form, with a set of new songs that revealed an intelligence and maturity that bested most of his previous work. The American in Me was an equally strong follow-up in 1992, but it suffered from the same problem that dogged Streets of This Town -- Geffen, Forbert's new label, wasn't sure just how to promote either album, and neither found the audience they deserved. Geffen has been good enough -- 11 years after The American in Me fell on deaf ears -- to give the two albums a second chance with the compilation Rock While I Can Rock: The Geffen Years, which features both sets in their entirety on one disc. Digital remastering has done wonders for the audio quality of the material, and the passage of more than a decade as been kind to this music; Forbert's wordplay is stronger, more subtle, and less callow here than on his early sides, and the musical accompaniment (anchored by Forbert's road band the Rough Squirrels on Streets of This Town and by a studio crew fronted by producer Pete Anderson on The American in Me) is strong and sophisticated without sounding pretentious, and rocks out with easy confidence. This collection also includes a U.K.-only B-side, "The Only Normal People," which is a sharp and witty find that fans will doubtless enjoy. Rock While I Can Rock: The Geffen Years captures an underappreciated artist during a creative high point that more than a few listeners missed, and it's well worth a backward glance for both fans and newcomers. ~ Mark Deming
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