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Calling from a Country Phone

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Download links and information about Calling from a Country Phone by Robert Forster. This album was released in 1993 and it belongs to Rock, Folk Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic genres. It contains 10 tracks with total duration of 38:14 minutes.

Artist: Robert Forster
Release date: 1993
Genre: Rock, Folk Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist, Psychedelic
Tracks: 10
Duration: 38:14
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Atlanta Lie Low 3:13
2. 121 3:28
3. The Circle 3:45
4. Falling Star 4:05
5. I Want to Be Quiet 3:34
6. Cats Life 3:52
7. Girl to a World 4:18
8. Drop 4:08
9. Beyond Their Law 5:03
10. Forever and Time 2:48

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Calling From a Country Phone is sometimes referred to as Robert Forster's "country" album, but the folk-rock sound (with occasional pedal steel) recalls Felt's Me and a Monkey on the Moon more than anything that has ever come out of Nashville. Forster's no-frills production suits his idiosyncratic and dramatic style, which requires very little in terms of accompaniment for its effect. "Atlanta Lie Low" seems too low-key to open an album, but it is immediately followed by "121," an unusually straight rocker on which Forster's delivery actually suggests Elvis Presley at times. "Drop" was the album's single, a dynamic song that deserved to be heard but would have found no place on the charts of the day, and "Falling Star" is just as good. Calling From a Country Phone is the only one of Forster's solo albums that was never released in the U.S., which is both disappointing and understandable since it probably would not have gained an audience beyond the adulatory cult surrounding the Go-Betweens.