Label: Bella Terra Records (South Korea), BTR020
Style: Rock, Folk Rock
Country: Texas, U.S.
Time: 41:51
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 232 Mb
Rex Foster, musician, type-setter author interprets, but also
craftsman joailler, comes us from the hills of the south-west of Texas
where it lives. On the road in Texas, in California, in New York, in
Europe, for thirty years, it has been a musician of heart, a craftsman
of heart. If you know the music of Texas, you already heard the name of
Rex Foster among those of Gary P. Nunn, Willie Nelson, B.W stevenson.
Jerry Jeff Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark. It tells the life of
tous. les. jours, sorrow, the joy, the lost moments, the first love, the
last sigh, the sunbeam in winter, the days of rain in summer. Leaving
its native Texas, Rex made its beginnings in the world of the music in
California of the Sixties. The summer 1969, it joined a group of
musicians who were creating a film following the first festival of
Woodstock. They crossed the country in the caravan presenting of the
spectacles and the free concerts. To make a documentary film of it,
Warner Brothers Films A urges Francois Reichenbach, directing very
famous French director. Francois and his team became integral part of
this ((family “ artists. The final destination of the voyage and the end
of film were the festival of the Island of White in England. 11s
divided the scene with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and the other large ones of
the music ((folk ”. Their part of the festival had as a head of poster
Rod Stewart and its Faces group. Then, there was Saint-Tropez before Rex
does not join Paris. It found in the capital Francois Reichenbach and
Milan Melvin, its own American producer, which were making the drafting
of film. Reichenbach presented Rex at colleagues whose influence in the
music would be significant Thereafter for Rex., Herve Thousand (Paris
Match, Radio Europe 1) arranged an appointment for Rex with Eddie
Barclay and Leo Missir (Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday). Barclay
immediately considered one ((Bob Dylan texan “. In two months they
completed, in Paris with American musicians and French, the first disc
of Rex Foster Roads Of Tomorrow (Ways of Tomorrow) Roads of Tomorrow was
a great success in Europe on Barclay and England on RCA, but it never
left to the UnitedStates. I started out playing for folks at a
coffeehouse in San Antonio, Texas called the Gatehouse. I had grown up
listening to rock and roll but my dad wouldn’t buy me an electric
guitar, so I became a skinny-kid-folkie hanging out behind the joint
between sets, nursing a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill wine and
waiting for the Revolution to begin. It never did. One night in ‘70 or
'71, a trio of what appeared to my young eyes to be Gypsies stumbled
through the door all buckskin and beads and leather guitar bags and
tales to tell of their travels in the Great Out Yonder. As it turns out,
they weren’t foreigners at all but local heroes returned to the fold.
Rex Foster, Don Harding, and Merrily Weeber had come out of one of my
favorite local rock bands, Rachel’s Children, gone acoustic, traveled to
France (!) and recorded a record (!!!). They were the first people I
ever knew that had ever been anywhere or recorded anything and I was
spellbound. (This was my first solo album, "Roads Of Tomorrow” r.f.) At
15 years old, I sometimes struggled for credibility in the local folk
scene. Don and Rex never dissed me like that. They treated me as an
apprentice artist, always glad to see me, always supportive. I never
forgot it. Today, when I’m approached by a young songwriter and I’m
tired and just want to get on the bus, I remember that night and my good
fortune to find teachers along this long weird highway, and I try to
smile like Rex did back then and say “What you got there, man?”
(johnkatsmc5.blogspot.com/2018/02/rex-foster-with-don-merrily-roads-of.html) 2001 Steve Earle.
(johnkatsmc5.blogspot.com/2018/02/rex-foster-with-don-merrily-roads-of.html) 2001 Steve Earle.
01. Roads Of Tomorrow (03:11)
02. Today's A Sunny Day (01:35)
03. Turn The Page Over (02:41)
04. In The Spring (03:30)
05. Guadalupe River Song (05:56)
06. Lighted Window Lady (05:40)
07. Lemon Aide Ditty (02:02)
08. Busted In The Grass Blues (02:36)
09. Don't Throw Your Life Away (03:01)
10. Climb (02:57)
11. Friend (01:55)
12. Roads Of Tomorrow 2004 (03:11)
13. Song To Don Earl (03:30)
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