VIA PRESS RELEASE | Troubadour Steve Forbert’s acclaimed 1988 album, Streets of This Town, will be back in print on CD and 140-gram vinyl for the first time in 28 years. The reissue, Streets of Town: Revisited has been remixed and remastered and will be released through Blue Rose on June 2; the CD format contains a bonus track, “They’re Out To Break Us.” The album is notable as Forbert’s first opportunity to record and release an album after several years of legal struggles with his then label, CBS Records.
Forbert is sharing the original 1988 video for “On the Streets Of This Town,” filmed in Los Angeles. The video features the newly remixed and remastered audio. Forbert says, “The video for “On The Streets of This Town” was filmed in downtown Los Angeles in 1988. Whenever I happen to be on those sidewalks again, I feel like I’m still seeing those same people traversing about, on the go to who knows where.”
Moving to NYC from his native Mississippi, Forbert burst on the international scene with his 1979 hit “Romeo’s Tune” and put out several more albums with his label, CBS, before reaching an impasse with them. The songs on Streets Of This Town: Revisited were written between 1984 -1988. During this time, the Meridian, MS native had moved from Greenwich Village to Nashville, TN, continuing to write and tour with his band, The Rough Squirrels.
Forbert caught the ear of E Street bassist Garry Tallent, who brought the band into his Long Branch, NJ studio to produce the original recordings that became Streets Of This Town. The songs chronicle the trials and tribulations of four years of a recording-artist purgatory and became Forbert’s first album for Geffen Records.
Streets Of This Town got an enthusiastic reception on its original release—Rolling Stone called it “arguably the best record he has ever made” in their 4-star review, and the Washington Post dubbed it “the most moving and consistent album of his career.”
