Chevy w/Balding Tires

1. Chevy w/Balding Tires

2. A Man and His Laboratory

3. When My Wife Takes Me by My Hand

4. My Favorite Recipe (for Dawn)

5. The Man from Manila

6. To an Angry Pot Farmer

7. The Desert

8. Target Practice

9. Out and Upward

10. The Caddy

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist
Deep in the heart of Riverside, CA lives independent music's secret storyteller, and he goes by the name of Bill Foreman. He writes loose-limbed garage folk, melodic and keenly insightful with socially thought-provoking and inspiring characters that each have a story to tell. Foreman blends his soft, crackled growl perfectly with an acoustic guitar: nothing stands between the singer, the listener, and the song. His repertoire draws from seven albums of independently released songs from over the last 12 years, most recently 2004's Chevy w/Balding Tires, a collection of 10 songs which each take place in Riverside. In solo performance, his personality brings an air of levity, buttressed by his pure love of playing, adding to the songs' satirical edge and digging deeply into his characters' lives without a trace of heaviness.

Product Description
Deep in the heart of Riverside, CA lives indie rock's secret storyteller, and he goes by the name of Bill Foreman. He writes loose-limbed garage folk, melodic and keenly insightful with socially thought provoking and inspiring characters that each have a story to tell. Foreman captures the particular nature of his hometown in his latest and strongest release to date, Chevy w/Balding Tires. Chevy w/Balding Tires is an album set in a very real place in Foreman's mind and the United States. Foreman experiences this place—Riverside, CA—from the middle of it, as a high-school history teacher. After work, the troubadour takes his eloquent stories and sets them to a backdrop of Springsteen-Nebraska mode melodies, or as Left Off the Dial put it, "a small-town musical version of 'Magnolia' or 'Short Cuts'." "No one ever talks about this part of California. It's either about Hollywood glamour or beauty and the beach." Foreman continued, "American politics is always about keeping the rich people rich and the poor people poor, distracting them with patriotic rhetoric and racism. I want my music to make clear what this means to people, including myself, in their daily lives."

Tracks:

Chevy w/Balding Tires
A Man and His Laboratory
When My Wife Takes Me by My Hand
My Favorite Recipe (for Dawn)
The Man from Manila
To an Angry Pot Farmer
The Desert
Target Practice
Out and Upward
The Caddy

Album Description

Deep in the heart of Riverside, CA lives indie rock's secret storyteller, and he goes by the name of Bill Foreman. He writes loose-limbed garage folk, melodic and keenly insightful with socially thought provoking and inspiring characters that each have a story to tell. Foreman captures the particular nature of his hometown in his latest and strongest release to date, Chevy w/Balding Tires. Chevy w/Balding Tires is an album set in a very real place in Foreman's mind and the United States. Foreman experiences this place—Riverside, CA—from the middle of it, as a high-school history teacher. After work, the troubadour takes his eloquent stories and sets them to a backdrop of Springsteen-Nebraska mode melodies, or as Left Off the Dial put it, "a small-town musical version of 'Magnolia' or 'Short Cuts'." "No one ever talks about this part of California. It's either about Hollywood glamour or beauty and the beach." Foreman continued, "American politics is always about keeping the rich people rich and the poor people poor, distracting them with patriotic rhetoric and racism. I want my music to make clear what this means to people, including myself, in their daily lives."

Rock Music:

Rock Music