Now this sounds like a solid bet
for a night of great music in a cozy venue. Steve Forbert and his trio will
make their way to the Towne Crier on November 24 in support of the Daylight
Savings Time, the singer-songwriter’s 21st(!) album.
The Mississippi-born tunesmith
lit out for New York in 1976. It was the peak of the punk explosion, and he
began gigging at CBGB, where his honest, stripped-down take on folk rock fit right
in with the minimalist approach of club habitues like the Ramones, whose managers,
Danny Fields and Linda Stein, signed him up.
“Television used to cover ‘Knocking
on Heaven’s Door’ by Bob Dylan, and so it wasn’t all that clear cut, everything
going on there wasn’t sounding like the Dead Boys or the Damned,” Forbert told Please
Kill Me in 2018. “It’s not as odd as it looks on the surface for me to be
able to sing in there.”
Forbert’s 1978 debut, Alive on Arrival, had the music
press pegging him as “the new Dylan,” but he hit the big time with its followup,
1979’s Jackrabbit Slim, home to his signature song number-one single of
that year, “Romeo’s Tune.”
The Steve Forbert Trio
will play at the Towne Crier in Beacon on November 24 at 7pm. Tickets are $40. Reservations
are recommended.
This article appears in November 2024.
