Carmaig DeForest: Biography

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• Violent Femmes
• Jonathan Richman
• The Velvet Underground
• Bob Dylan
• John Hiatt
• Billy Bragg

• Apostle of Hustle

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Rock Music

Decades Active:

1980's|1990's

Bob Dylan meets Tiny Tim -- a bizarre idea, but one that finds its closest expression in the work of Carmaig de Forest, a folky singer/songwriter originally from San Francisco who mixes a Billy Bragg-ish political sensibility with the willful naiveté of Jonathan Richman and the Violent Femmes, the latter characteristic often underlined by his frequent self-accompaniment on ukulele. de Forest debuted in 1987 with I Shall Be Released, on the Good Foot label; he quickly followed it in 1988 with a French-only live EP, 6 Live Cuts, recorded over a pair of late-'87 shows in San Francisco. de Forest was quiet for a few years, then returned in 1993 with a backing band called the Death Groove Love Party, whose name also provided the title for his largely ukulele-less album. Again laying low for several years, de Forest next surfaced in 1997 with El Camino Real.

- Steve Huey, All Music Guide