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Bill Foreman: Seventeen Miles Past Indio
Bill Foreman has good roots. Paul Westerberg, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Shane MacGowan.all of these artists had a hand in Foremans singing, song-writing and instrumentation. They are all accomplished independent artists themselves, men with ideas about music, and Bill Foreman is following in their footsteps. A multi-instrumentalist, Foreman writes and performs all of his own material on the vast majority of the tracks on Seventeen Miles Past Indio. The result, though poorly recorded (there is hiss throughout much of the disc), is the boiled-down psyche of one person, very pure, very simple and very compelling. His writing depicts a life on the frayed fringes of society, the crisscrossing paths of outsiders in America. Slice of life songs with titles like Queens, St. Louis, and San Diego are new love letters in the ongoing affair with the American city. Foreman explores the grittier parts of city life, the underbelly of America and all of its sinning, fleeing and deliverance. The depth and breadth Foreman achieves in his descriptions of humanity is what makes this release so gripping. Foreman describes a world where shortcomings are routine, failures frequent, and salvation a constantly pursued dream, embodied in the unobtainable. The obligatory phantom of a long-lost Girl haunts the tracks, her face is fading from memory, but the pain she inflicted still drives the songs. Foreman, on all fronts, is a talented musician with a story to tell and the ability to tell it well.
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