Steve Forbert"Baby boomers have been blessed with an embarrassment of riches when it comes to autobiographies from their musical heroes. ...In the category of musicians writing about moving from the hinterland to NYC, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith have been at the to of the list. Now we can add a third....Steve Forbert pulled out of Meridian, Mississippi and did look back. ...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. ...His perspective on what life was like for a 20-something recently arrived in NYC is sharp. ...Forbert offers a sparkling observation about the pull of music as excellent as any I have seen."
-Entertainment Today

"Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock is an enormously entertaining and endlessly touching memoir of where Forbert started and where he is now. ...the book turn(s) the sunshine on a man who is one of the best friends American music ever had."
- Bill Bentley, The Morton Report

"Steve Forbert tells great stories. ...[his]memoir may be one of the best of the year... Big City Cat focuses on the power of songwriting, the power of music to shape a life, and Forbert's continuing passion for writing songs and the way that music inhabits him. ...Reading [it] is like sitting down with an old friend, listening to him spin out stories as you'd listen to some old familiar, favorite music. ...Big City Cat, offers a glimpse into the ways that Forbert continues to develop this gift of creativity that has sustained him all these years."
-- Henry Carrigan, No Depression Read More Read Less