Steve Forbert - Rock While I Can Rock: The Geffen Recordings '2003

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Running On Love
02. Don't Tell Me (I Know)
03. I Blinked Once
04. Mexico
05. As We Live And Breathe
06. On The Streets Of This Town
07. Hope, Faith And Love
08. Perfect Stranger
09. Wait A Little Longer
10. Search Your Heart
11. The Only Normal People (Single Version)
12. Born Too Late (Album Version)
13. If You're Waiting On Me (Album Version)
14. Responsibility (Album Version)
15. When The Sun Shines (Album Version)
16. The American In Me (Album Version)
17. Baby, Don't (Album Version)
18. Change In The Weather (Album Version)
19. You Cannot Win 'Em All (Album Version)
20. Rock While I Can Rock (Album Version)
21. New Working Day (Album Version)

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.



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