Steve Forbert

Though he made a living busking on the streets of New York City before signing his first record deal, Steve Forbert was born in Meridian, Mississippi. So was Jimmie Rodgers, as it happens. On this Grammy-nominated collection, Forbert charms his way through the oeuvre of "America's Blue Yodeler." His genteel interpretations leave no room for doubt that Forbert is once and for all a Southern boy with an easy, reed-throated voice worthy of his elder.