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Steve Forbert & the Soundbenders with Jim Lauderdale

Tuesday 22nd January 2008, 7.30pm

ABC

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Bringing together two veteran stalwarts of leftfield US roots music, tonight finds both in the prime of their powers, each having released some of their finest work to date during 2007.

Mississippi-born Steve Forbert’s latest album, Strange Names & New Sensations, includes a winsome new version of ‘Romeo’s Tune’, the song that almost made him famous back in 1979 – before contractual travails stalled his career for most of a decade.

The long and winding road has proved a creatively fruitful one for Forbert, whose mix of raw-boned country-rock and gritty balladry channels a brilliantly seasoned musical intelligence.

Long acclaimed as one of Nashville’s most articulate and versatile songwriters, Jim Lauderdale has successfully pursued a parallel career in both country and bluegrass music.

His new release The Bluegrass Diaries returns to the latter fold with a set of superbly executed Lauderdale originals, described by All Music Guide as ‘a collection of heartfelt music as honest and beautifully crafted as the day is long’.