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Forrest Whitlow : Patch of Blue
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Americana, folk-rock, alt-country... whatever you wanna call it, it's all here. Neil Young meets David Lynch with a ray of Wilco mixed in. Cut the watermelons.
Genre: Folk: Modern Folk
Release Date: 2001
Patch of Blue Record Label: Eternal Return Music
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Blue Brains 2:36 $0.99
After Breakfast 3:11 $0.99
Madagascar 3:15 $0.99
On the Fly 4:19 $0.99
Wendall's Farm 3:17 $0.99
Ready For the Corn 3:53 $0.99
Big Oak Tree 3:42 $0.99
Less Than Zero 2:56 $0.99
Depression's Highway 4:12 $0.99
Wishin' For Snow 3:45 $0.99
Ingrid 3:44 $0.99
Hey Hey 2:19 $0.99
And Now Here We Are 3:04 $0.99
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Album Notes

Forrest is originally from Kentucky. He now lives and plays out of Kansas City. He is a skillfull, perceptive songwriter who has made a strong presence on the Kansas City music scene with his first two releases "Vacation" '96 and "Love and Garbage" '98. "Patch of Blue" released in 2001 is his third album and first with his backing band "The Crash". This was followed in 2002 with a solo acoustic album called "Into The Gloaming". And his most recent release is also with his band "The Crash" called "Land of X" (August 2003).

Forrest has been playing the coffee house and bar circuit in the KC and surrounding area for over a decade with an assortment of backing bands (The Big Trees, The Futility Gods, and currently The Crash). Forrest does alot of solo gigs and grew up musically playing weekly with the Kansas City Songwriter's Circle, a group that meets publicly at coffee houses and bars to play their new songs. Forrest continues to present new songs in this twice monthly event.

Forrest draws alot from his experiences growing up on a dairy and tobacco farm. He also has a master's degree in theology and once served as an associate minister in a parish in Fort Worth, Texas. Forrest also has a sense for subject matter, images and experiences in his songs that touch a common chord with alot of people of all ages. His angst flows through unpretentious lyrics and familiar melodies that explore love, longing and loss.

Forrest's album, "Patch of Blue", is a heart felt exploration of relationships, vocations, and dreams that takes one from country rock to folk to rock-pop. Barry Lee of KKFI radio called it "a fucking masterpiece." Check it out.

His latest cd "Land of X" is quite a departure from the folk and americana renderings of past years. This is more of a rock/pop album exploring the seedier side of life...drugs, murder, perverion and the margins of society. It's a disturbing albiet satisfying musical experience.

Forrest is a prolific writer and has lots of songs waiting to find their way onto a record. Good to know for his fans that there is plenty of music still to come.

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REVIEWS

Every Mellencamp fan, every Steve Earle fan, and especially every Neil Young fan
author: Rechelle Malin
Patch of Blue is a great American record. My only wish is that more people could hear it. Forrest writes songs dealing with manic depression and tobacco farming. Lost love, and wanderlust. Every Mellencamp fan, every Springsteen fan, every Steve Earle fan, and especially every Neil Young fan will love this record. It is as solid, simple and as everyman as they come.
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This one has my very favorite Whitlow songs to date.
author: David Hakan, Founder Of Songwriters Circle Of Kc
Forrest Whitlow's CD, Patch of Blue, establishes Forrest as a vibrant new genre all unto himself. Fans of singer/songwriters will have plenty of great images, rich language and lyrical gems here. Yet you can, also, crank this CD up and dance or fly down the highway, singing along to the rock 'n roll choruses. Coproducer and engineer Steve Phillips has successfully reined in the Crash so the band gives lots of energy and drive to the CD without stomping all over the lyrics. With Todd Wiseman on bass, John Bersuch on drums and Scott Mize on electric guitar, Forrest has plenty of talent behind him to crash on to the national charts. Rechelle Malin, a talented songwriter herself, gives fine vocal support on harmonies without interfering with Forrest's awesome vocals on this CD. Forrest's signature song, "Depression's Highway," starts out with a nasty, dissonant chord pounding away to cynical hopeless lyrics when all of a sudden a melodic, folksy "patch of blue" comes into the song to pull us out in time. When I'm stuck in a hazy fog of sound-alike music, I reach for Patch Of Blue. I'd rather be in Madagascar.
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using the brush of Neil Young, and a color pallete that embraces Nick Drake, Jon
author: Peter Max Lawrence
This was an amazing listening experience. Forrest has drawn a musical masterpiece using the brush of Neil Young, and a color pallete that embraces Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. It actually frightens me that a record this good could be released in the first year of this century. You owe it to yourself to hear the ear candy that he has created. Patch of Blue is obviously a sparkeling diamond in the rough that is the current American musical landscape. I fucking loved this album and you will too.
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...And the song is sung. The truth be told
author: Ian Charles~(Singer/Songwriter)
I look at this disc as one of the desert island indie cd's in my collection. For various reasons many of which fall to a bunch of rhetoric but, the truth be told... I have listened to this disc as much as I have listened to other singer/songwriters discs. Including classic, and mainstream.Though, Forrest is a different creation. He reaches to this place of ache and finds humor and a seemingly freeform redemption in the song he is writing. That fact alone is the the thing that keeps bringing me back.
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