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Artist
Bill Foreman
12+ albums
acousticfolksinger-songwriterBallad
about
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 mother’s 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. After releasing one CD, 1995’s In the Choir of Primates, with the short-lived and much-loved House Carpenters, 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
