Over With You

Steve Forbert | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2012)
• Original Release Date: 2012
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Corn Music
• ASIN: B008M9DGP2
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,982 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Over With You, Steve Forbert's first studio album in three years, is an earnest account of the often-mixed emotions involved in personal relationships. The album takes the lyrical brilliance of Forbert and pairs it with a cast of accomplished young musicians who add a layer of supple, empathetic support. 34 years after his first album, Steve Forbert is releasing an exciting new one. ''This is an album that has taken a lifetime to make,'' explains Forbert. ''You don t just pull these songs out of thin air you have to live them.'' And these songs make the case that Forbert should be considered in the first rank of American songwriters.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars an under-appreciated songwriter makes a moody masterpiece September 11, 2012

By chuckles

Format:Audio CD

this is a 'break-up' album, and a really fine one. its spare instrumentation puts the emphasis on the lyrics and forbert's always-unique delivery of them. the cello work from ben sollee is outstanding, and the ben harper guitar solo on 'that'd be alright' really makes that song. the songs are about relationships - mostly crumbling ones it seems, although there are some rays of light. this album really hangs together - its like a novel rather than a collection of short stories (which is what forberts last couple of albums felt like). these songs are accessible and, in some cases downright catchy, but with a lot of depth. as a long-time forbert fan, i'd call this his best album since 'mission of the crossroad palms' and that one was 1995!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Forbert at his very best September 12, 2012

By Andrea S. Hershatter

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I really, really love this! I am a long term fan and this new release is definitely way up there for me. While it is impossible to tap into all the things going on in Forbert's music on a first time listen, here is my opinion, song by song for those who are interested

All I asked of you
Pretty dark without being too depressing lyrically. This is a really interesting, multi-layered song that does an amazing job of setting an unsettling mood

All I need is you
Really fun song. Has that instant familiarity that typifies hits and I could see this one getting covered by someone. Melodically reminiscent of "so good to feel good again" I pretty much love it

In Love with you
Really awesome guitar playing at the front end. Nice and sparse musically. I can actually feel the glass shards he's singing about. I find this song very moving and truly deeply beautiful

That'd be alright
An instant upbeat favorite. i love that thing he does at the end of the last two lines of each verse where he slides his voice up. Very forbert-esque! Nice rhythm instruments on this one too....as well as the instrumental bridge which is really nice and not that typical of his songs

Baby I Know
This kind of song is what I think earned him his reputation as a consummate songwriter. It is amazing that he packs so many thoughts, ideas, and clever rhymes (and words!) into such a short time. I also LOVE the harmonica. Nice!

Over With You
Opening line is fabulous. It's kind of bitingly sarcastic and sweet at the same time. This is a perfect title track and definitely one of my favorites

Don't look down Pollyanna
Love the music and the Shreveport orientation; the whole thing actually has a Louisiana Texarkana feel, great alignment of music and lyrics in a truly authentic way

Can't we get together
Classic Forbert that feels like every reason that I love him. Lyrics, music, melody all come together in a way that is refreshingly new but also obviously familiar and right when you hear it. For my taste, this is another one of my very favorite tracks.

Metal Marie
To me this is sort of a twisted Forbert version of "Maggie May" Something about this song seems like it will grow on me more and more over time.

Sugarcane Plum Fairy
I'm glad he picked this one to end the album because it leaves you wanting more. I know Forbert never bought into that "next Dylan" stuff but this song makes you realize why people said it. (especially when both artists released a new album on the same day!) I think this song is particularly remarkable and one I look forward to hearing many, many more times. Maybe starting with right now.....

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Over With You September 24, 2012

By Randy Patterson

Format:Audio CD

The name, Steve Forbert, may not immediately ring a bell with some of you. However, to many baby boomers, you will immediately remember his signature 1980 hit, Romeo's Tune. That was thirteen studio albums and nine live albums ago.

Forbert is ready with his fourteenth solo project, Over With You and is his first studio album in three years. The album is a ten song autobiography of genuine stories of personal relationships weighed with mixed and often bittersweet emotions and angst. The ten new songs are written with straight-forward honesty and introspection that some would think makes a songwriter vulnerable. "This album is very personal," Forbert says. "The songs are about what people feel in deep relationships -- mainly love and friction." Forbert explained, "This is an album that has taken a lifetime to make. You don't just pull these songs out of thin air -- you have to live them." Some have said that "these songs make the case that Forbert should be considered in the first rank of American songwriters".

I tend to agree.

The three randomly picked songs highlighted are:

That'd Be Alright is a fun, upbeat tune featuring a great Ben Harper solo that makes the song worthy of repeated slaps of the "repeat" button.

The title cut, Over With You, has the kind of melodic and lyric hooks that is guaranteed to create the kind of pleasant earworms that you would never want to be rid of.

Finally, the song about a long distance love affair called, Can't We Get Together. Fun, quizzical lines like, "Can't we get together in the same time zone? I could wait forever but it's all that time alone" make this song a love song for any and all who have found themselves in that kind of relationship.

Lovers of easy-listening, great American songs - love songs, even - will want to own their own copy of Over With You. It should wind up being a great American musical classic.

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