Artist: Steve Forbert
Title: Mission Of The Crossroad Palms
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Giant Records
Genre: Folk-Rock, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 40:06
Total Size: 105 Mb
Tracklist:
01. It Sure Was Better Back Then (02:58)
02. It Is What It Is (And That's All) (03:31)
03. Is It Any Wonder? (03:21)
04. Lay Down Your Weary Tune Again (03:08)
05. So Good To Feel Good Again (02:57)
06. Oh, To Be Back With You (04:42)
07. Real Live Love (03:49)
08. The Trouble With Angels (03:51)
09. How Can You Change The World? (03:01)
10. Don't Talk To Me (02:34)
11. The Last Rays Of Sunlight (03:36)
12. Thirteen Blood Red Rosebuds (02:40)
With Mission of the Crossroad Palms, Steve Forbert turns in an album of craftsmanlike tunes on his seventh album, including story-songs such as "It Sure Was Better Back Then" (a working man's reminiscence) and "The Trouble with Angels" (in which an ex-beauty queen robs the till to pay for her infertility treatments). There is also one of Forbert's philosophical treatises ("It Is What It Is [And That's All]") and the humorously multi-referential "Lay Down Your Weary Tune Again" (risky territory for a former "new Dylan"). But the best song may be Forbert's ode to infidelity, "Don't Talk to Me." The point, though, is that he has flowered into a distinctive, broad-based songwriter and that, in E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent, he has found a sympathetic producer able to showcase his voice and lyrics properly. Now, if he could just reconnect with his audience.
