Steve Forbert - Here's Your Pizza '1997

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
02. What Kinda Guy? / Rockin' Robin
03. One After 909
04. Years Ago
05. Everybody Does It in Hawaii
06. You're Darn Right
07. Runaway Train of Love
08. All Because of You
09. Song for Katrina
10. Honkytonker
11. Samson and Delilah's Beauty Shop
12. You Cannot Win (If You Do Not Play) / Polk Salad Annie
13. Tribute to Richie Valens: His Was the Sound / La Bamba
14. Sweet Pea
15. Backin' Up Boys
16. You Cannot Win 'Em All

Steve Forbert may have been Alive on Arrival (the title of his 1978 debut), but
it took him another 19 years to get around to releasing a live album. He dug
into the vaults to do it, waxing a concert he recorded with his band, the Rough
Squirrels, in a small Florida club back in 1987. "Yes there's some tape hiss
here, some distortion," Forbert admits in the liner notes, but there are also
performances that "more than make up for any technical imperfections." For the
most part, that's true, although you do have to wade through a few throwaways to
get to the goodies. Don't look here for "Goin' Down to Laurel" or many of
Forbert's other best-known tunes; with a couple of exceptions -- most notably a
great version of the midtempo "Song for Katrina," one of his best love songs --
this is an album of covers and obscurities, not greatest hits. There's a taste
of the '50s (a cover of Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin" and a tribute to Ritchie
Valens that includes a snippet of his "La Bamba"), a nod to the Beatles ("One
After 909"), and a surprisingly successful version of Tommy Roe's 1966 bubblegum
hit "Sweet Pea." There's also ample evidence of Forbert's wacky sense of humor
on "Everybody Does It in Hawaii," the yodel-spiced "Years Ago," and his own
"What Kinda Guy?" Keep listening after the last listed track, and you'll hear an
unadvertised bonus: affecting versions of "If You're Waiting on Me" and "You
Cannot Win 'Em All," both of which first surfaced on Forbert's The American in
Me album.



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