Just Like There's Nothin' To It

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:45:50
Personnel includes: Steve Forbert (vocals); Edie Brickell (background vocals). Personnel: Steve Forbert (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Steve Forbert; Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin); Dan Dugmore (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, lap steel guitar, pedal steel guitar); Marc Muller (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, mandolin, piano, organ, synthesizer, bass guitar, drums, background vocals); Mark Stuart (acoustic guitar, electric 12-string guitar); Jason Lehning (electric guitar, piano, electric piano, synthesizer, loops); Viktor Krauss (upright bass, bass guitar); Hugh McDonald (electric bass, bass guitar); Garry Tallent, David Jacques (bass guitar); John Deaderick (piano, electric piano, organ, keyboards); Ethan Eubanks, Shawn Pelton (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Edie Brickell, Wes Hightower (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Jason Lehning. Recording information: House Of David; Moondog Music, Nashville, TN; Pool Room, Neptune, NJ; the Compound; Wolf Music. Photographers: Ed Rode; John Mazzello. After more than a quarter-century of making records, Steve Forbert sounds as engaged as ever on JUST LIKE THERE'S NOTHIN' TO IT, his first studio album since the Grammy-nominated Jimmie Rodgers tribute ANY OLD TIME. After that brief country dalliance, he's back to form, mining a rich folk-rock vein. His muscular band of session men is fully capable of rocking out, as on the working-man's-ennui lament "I Just Work Here," and churning out sparkling pop ("Autumn This Year"), but there's some effective balladry from this veteran singer/songwriter as well. The wry humor that's always been part of Forbert's charm is at the center of the piano-based tune "The World Is Full of People" and the gentle-but-unsentimental "I Married a Girl," a riposte to a tumultuous relationship. Whatever the mode, it's the small surprises of lyric and melody that catch the listener by the ear and the heart here, just as it's always been with Forbert's music.