Music Review

Mission of the Crossroad Palms (1995)

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: Steve Forbert

The production on Forbert's seventh album, by E Street Band bassist Garry Tallent, is impeccable but monotonous. The guitars shimmer, the keyboards sparkle, but the tempos propelling Forbert's poetic songs rarely make it past an easy-listening saunter, allowing perhaps too much time to focus on the singer's love-it-or- leave-it rasp.

Originally posted Apr 28, 1995 Published in issue #272 Apr 28, 1995 Order article reprints

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