7
© Copyright-forrest whitlow (erm)
(796873064200)
Record Label: independent (eternal return music)
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Forrest Whitlow is a performing/singer/songwriter residing in Kansas City. His latest album is entitled \"7\" and features 12 studio recordings of his original music. This is his seventh album, thus the name. Forrest has toured the midwest with his music for the last several years, and has had the opportunity to sing in Germany, England and Poland. He is originally from Kentucky, the son of a dairy/tobacco farmer father and a hair dresser mother. He attended college and seminary...gaining his masters degree in divinity in 1987. He moved to Texas on church assignment, after which he moved to Kansas City in 1990 and began his music career.
This album features beautiful string arrangements on 3 songs and tasty lead lap steel and guitar on others. Forrest writes about the hope of love and the despair of its loss and dealing with ever present spectre of one\'s mortality. Forrest has been very influenced by the KC folk scene (Kansas City Songwriter\'s Circle) and by his roots in church choir and hearing country and pop music on the boom box while working in the dairy. Rock influences are Neil Young, Beck, Wilco, Luna and many many of the pop music songwriters of the 70\'s like Andrew Gold and Todd Rundgren.
Forrest continues to play and turn out great music and has a very faithful following in the Kansas City metro area.
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Review from the Pitch
author: Richard Gintow
If it\'s possible to be a cult favorite in a scene as small as Kansas City\'s, Forrest Whitlow is making a good run at it. The prolific songwriter\'s seventh album — conveniently titled 7 — expands on his versatile bag of tricks. Less of an alt-country troubadour than a seasoned pop songwriter, Whitlow has an idiosyncratic voice and slightly bent melodic sense that benefit from drummer and engineer John Bersuch, bassist Jeff Harshbarger, saxophonist Mark Southerland and violist Laurel Morgan (among others). With Whitlow\'s open-tuned acoustic guitar at the forefront, 7\'s slower numbers (\"Banda Lou\" and \"Tattered Tune\") strike a mood reminiscent of Beck\'s Sea Change. \"On My Way to See Aimee Mann\" sounds like something from the Chris Stamey/dB\'s songbook, while \"Vanilla Stoli\" could have been politely taken from Alex Chilton. But the best reason to spin this disc isn\'t for its sincere flatteries; it\'s because Whitlow writes some damn fine tunes of his own. — Richard Gintow, The Pitch
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Strong enough to drive steel
author: David B Hakan
Review of Forrest Whitlow’s CD, 7
Forrest Whitlow’s CD simply titled, 7, is full of striking, unforgettable songs. Most of these acoustic rock songs are anchored by choruses strong enough to drive steel. The love songs here each wears a different face, from jaded and flirtatious to soul deep and devoted. When life becomes a rollercoaster ride, this album reminds me that even when I hit bottom it can be an opportunity to slow down and breathe.
- David Hakan, Songwriters Circle of Kansas City
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