billforeman

Bill Foreman

Master songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and iconoclast, Bill Foreman takes a dizzying array of stylistic influences from Delta blues, Irish folk, to 60’s rock and beyond and makes a music unmistakably current and his own.

Bill Foreman has worked the past two decades making beautiful, unique music for a small, but dedicated and growing, audience. Bill began his solo career in 1997. Armed with a large back-catalog of recordings and an expanding repertoire of new songs, he released a four solo albums between 1997 and 1999 on his own label, General Ludd Music, each lovingly hand-packaged in ziploc bags with photocopied artwork. Taken as a group, these discs brought Bill’s craft to new heights. The results began, more so than ever before in his career, to attract the attention of musicians, growing audiences, and a small coterie of journalists.

2002 saw the release of Seventeen Miles Past Indio, a collection of 12 songs drawn mainly from Bill's prior releases. This paved the way for 2004's Chevy w/Balding Tires, a series of 10 songs, each taking place in Bill's then-hometown of Riverside, CA. The album, by intent, crystallizes the various techniques, musical and lyrical, that Bill had developed over fifteen years of songwriting. Poison Against Poison: Recordings 1990-2003, a massive, 3-CD retrospective of his work, excepting Chevy, followed in mid-2005.

Newly-relocated to San Francisco following an 8-month stint living in Dakar, Senegal, Bill began a writing spree in April 2007 the likes of which he hasn’t had in years. To begin with, Bill released the seven-song mini-album Begging Bowl, a little gem of typically melodic, lyrically penetrating Bill Foreman music, in July 2007. Writing for his next full album should be complete by the end of 2007, to be recorded in released in 2008.

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