…remixed and remastered 10th-anniversary re-release of 2015 album, ‘Compromised’.
Having been around now for 38 years, while he’s never attained the superstar level of early predictions (only his first two albums ever registered in the UK Top 75, peaking at #54 and only three of his 15 studio releases have made the Billboard Top 100), Steve Forbert has maintained a substantial and loyal audience to the point where he can now pretty much record what he likes knowing he’ll have a certain level of sales.
And this sounds very much like he’s doing just that. Reuniting with John Simon, who produced his most successful album, 1979’s Jackrabbit Slim (which made #20), it’s unmistakably Forbert (that voice couldn’t be anyone else) while…