Americana Highways is pleased to premiere Steve Forbert’s new release The Magic Tree (Blue Rose Music), a collection of earlier demo songs that never made earlier albums, now with new backing tracks, and produced by Karl Derfler (Tom Waits).
The album is being released with what you might well consider its companion book. The album traces Forbert’s history by resurrecting these abandoned tracks, and the memoirs, Big City Cat: My Life In Folk Rock (PFP Publishing), co-written with Therese Boyd, traces a similar trajectory. Originally envisioned as a screen play, the book chronicles four decades of Forbert’s life, with memories pulled from journals he kept. Managers Danny Fields and Linda Stein and music legends Doc Pomus and John Simon are among those featured.
All the tracks but “Only You (And Nobody Else)” were written by Steve Forbert — that one was co-written by Forbert and Robert Johnson. Here is the track listing:
- The Magic Tree (Version One)
- That’d Be Alright
- Carolina Blue Sky Blues
- Let’s Get High
- Tryna Let It Go
- Lookin’ At The River In The Rain
- Diamond Sky
- Movin’ Though America
- I Ain’t Got Time
- The Magic Tree (Version Two)
- Only You (And Nobody Else)
- The Music Of The Night
Give it a listen, here, and then check out the tour dates further below.
Steve Forbert on tour 2018/2019
September
13 – One Longfellow Square – Portland ME
14 – Iron Horse – Northampton MA
15 – Towne Crier – Beacon NY
27 – Maynard Public Library – Maynard MA (signing Big City Cat at 7 PM)
29 – Porter Square Books – Cambridge MA (signing Big City Cat at 3 PM)
29 – Club Passim – Cambridge MA
30 – Turning Point – Piedmont NY
October
05 – Hopmonk Tavern – Sebastopol CA
06 – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival – San Francisco CA
13 – Club Café – Pittsburgh PA
14 – Natalie’s – Worthington OH
20 – Ramblin Roots Festival – Utrecht NL
21 – Nell’s Jazz & Blues – London UK
27 – Split Level Concerts – Scotch Plains NJ
November
02 – Mucky Duck – Houston TX
03 – Cactus Café – Austin TX
09 – World Café Live – Philadelphia PA
15 – Capital Ale House – Richmond VA
16 – The Spot on Kirt – Roanoke VA
17 – Forty Acres – Durham NC
30 – Union Stage – Washington DC
December
01 – Godfrey Daniels – Bethlehem PA
January
11 – Red Dragon Listening Room – Baton Rouge LA
12 – Duling Hall – Jackson MS
March
01 – The Soundry – Columbia MD
02 – Havana New Hope – New Hope PA
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