[SIGNED] Paperback: "Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock"

SIGNED copy of a memoir by Steve Forbert. "In the category of musicians writing about moving from the hinterland to NYC, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith have been at the top of the list. Now we can add a third." - Entertainment Today Like the earlier Dylan and Smith books, Forbert has a warm way of describing the pull of NYC and the ensuing challenges of getting traction, against the context of a small-town upbringing. Forbert describes his younger days venturing out of Meridian with his family, opening his eyes to life over the horizon. He takes music lessons from a cousin of Jimmie Rodgers, the prior musician of note from Meridian. Forbert gets early exposure to the songs of Hendrix and Cream via a junior college concert performance by The Royal Guardsmen, who quickly expired their repertoire of “Snoopy vs The Red Baron” songs. I enjoyed his description of “curveballs,” unique songs which kept coming across the radio, as songwriters like Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman and Bob