10 songs/stories documenting Riverside, CA in garage rock and folk.

10 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Folk Rock, ROCK: Acoustic



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Bill Foreman has worked the past two decades making beautiful, unique music for a small, but dedicated and growing, audience. His formative years were spent in Del Mar, California, listening to his father play Johnny Cash songs on his guitar and hearing his motherâs Beatles records. Hoping to channel his adolescent rebellion in a positive direction, his parents rented 12-year old Bill a drum kit and sent him for lessons. Their plan worked: the boy was hooked. By 18, he was fluent on drums, bass, piano, and guitar.

Though he played in rock bands and jazz combos in high school, it was as a student at Pitzer College in Claremont, California that Bill began his work in earnest. Whether playing in his own blues or rock groups, backing jazz singers, or collaborating with like-minded musicians, Bill expanded his musical vocabulary with each partnership. All the while, Bill was writing and recording music, sharpening his skills and creating demos for bands.

Bill met fellow multi-instrumentalist Peter Giuliano in 1989, and the two formed a musical partnership that would last 8 years. The band would release one CD, In the Choir of Primates in 1995, before self-destructing while making their second album.

Bill took the bandâs end as an opportunity, however, and released a series of solo albums beginning with 1997's The Bathroom Mirror, each lovingly hand-packaged in ziploc bags with photocopied artwork. Following Tangerine, a 1997 collection of old 4-track recordings, 1998âs The Duck Hunter and 1999âs Building St. Petersburg brought Billâs 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.

Acceding to numerous requests, Bill compiled Poison Against Poison: Recordings 1990-2003, a massive, 3-CD retrospective of his work, save Chevy, in mid-2005. After relocating to San Francisco in 2006, 2007 saw the re-release of his solo back catalogue and the beginnings of what portends to be a fruitful collaboration with singer-songwriter Anthony Pulsipher and bassist John Hansen in the trio, Spidermeow.