Year/Genre: 1979, Folk Rock
Matrix #: JZ 36191
Condition: VG, plays clean; bonus 7" has a few pops

Cultural Facts:

1. Second album by Meridian, Mississippi songwriter Steve Forbert, released in 1979 on Nemperor/Epic. 

2. Features his biggest hit “Romeo’s Tune,” which reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and pushed the LP into the U.S. Top 20. 

3. Early U.S. copies included a one-sided 7" of his topical track “The Oil Song,” often missing from later copies.

4. Forbert was tagged a “new Dylan”; fans of Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Prine often gravitate toward this record. 

Price Suggestions:
NM: $16–$20
VG+: $12–$15
VG: $8–$11
G: $4–$6 

11/22/25

3/13/25 sc