Steve Forbert is a true American treasure, a fact underscored by his 21st album, Daylight Savings Time. Like all his albums of original songs, it’s suffused with what venerated rock journalist Robert Christgau discerned as his “omnivorously observant” songwriting, marked by Steve’s gift for finding the deeper meaning and magic within the spectrum of everyday moments, as well as his abundant melodic and poetic enchantment.

As Forbert approaches the milestone of his 70th birthday, Daylight Savings Time contemplates and celebrates the proverbial ‘extra hour of daylight’ that comes with the time change. “Yeah to chirping crickets and to daylight savings time!” he sings on the album’s first single “Sound Existence,” “The best ain’t yet to come, but you could still get by just fine.”

Steve arrived in New York City from his Meridian, Mississippi hometown in 1976. He slotted seamlessly into the “new folk” revival in such Manhattan clubs as Folk City, The Bitter End, and Kenny’s Castaways while taking the stage at CBGB, ground zero of the burgeoning new wave/punk movement. He also busked on the streets of Greenwich Village and in the elegant confines of Grand Central Station.

He quickly won a major label deal with Nemperor/CBS Records and released his heralded debut, Alive on Arrival, in 1978. His next album, Jackrabbit Slim, released in 1979, brought wider renown to Forbert with its #11 pop chart hit “Romeo’s Tune.” It provided the stature for his troubadour existence, which has kept him active ever since as “a striking performer, very much worth seeing and hearing,” according to the New York Times. 

The Kenn Morr and long-time multi-instrumentalist, Tom Hagymasi, are touring in support of their new album “Open Field” featuring ten new original songs in the Folk/Rock/Americana style for which the band has become known.

Highlighted by their vocal harmonies and unique instrumentation (guitar, violin, mandolin, accordion, violin and bouzouki) the KMB’s music has been described as “uplifting” seemingly coming “right from American’s heartland…”

The UK’s “Folk Words” wrote: “Life offers some certainties – they include the flow of memorable melodies and deeply-thought themes that permeate Kenn Morr’s mix of folk rock Americana. The Kenn Morr Band serves up a selection of laid-back warmth, involving softly embracing songs and pin-sharp observational lyrics.”

With airplay across the country and Europe (England, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, among other countries), “Open Field” is set to bring the Kenn Morr sound to new listeners.