Search - Bill Foreman :: Chevy With Balding Tires

Deep in the heart of Riverside, CA lives indie rock's secret storyteller, and he goes by the name of Bill Foreman. He writes loose-limbed garage folk, melodic and keenly insightful with socially thought provoking and inspiring characters that each have a story to tell. Foreman captures the particular nature of his hometown in his latest and strongest release to date, Chevy w/Balding Tires. Chevy w/Balding Tires is an album set in a very real place in Foreman's mind and the United States. Foreman experiences this place?Riverside, CA?from the middle of it, as a high-school history teacher. After work, the troubadour takes his eloquent stories and sets them to a backdrop of Springsteen-Nebraska mode melodies, or as Left Off the Dial put it, "a small-town musical version of 'Magnolia' or 'Short Cuts'." "No one ever talks about this part of California. It's either about Hollywood glamour or beauty and the beach." Foreman continued, "American politics is always about keeping the rich people rich and the poor people poor, distracting them with patriotic rhetoric and racism. I want my music to make clear what this means to people, including myself, in their daily lives."