Forrest Whitlow

7 Forrest Whitlow

Forrest Whitlow is a performing/singer/songwriter residing in Kansas City. His latest album is entitled \'7\' and features 12 studio recordings of his original music. This is his seventh album, thus the name. Forrest has toured the midwest with his music for the last several years, and has had the opportunity to sing in Germany, England and Poland. He is originally from Kentucky, the son of a dairy/tobacco farmer father and a hair dresser mother. He attended college and seminary...gaining his masters degree in divinity in 1987. He moved to Texas on church assignment, after which he moved to Kansas City in 1990 and began his music career. This album features beautiful string arrangements on 3 songs and tasty lead lap steel and guitar on others. Forrest writes about the hope of love and the despair of it's loss and dealing with ever present spectre of one\'s mortality. Forrest has been very influenced by the KC folk scene (Kansas City Songwriter\'s Circle) and by his roots in church choir and hearing country and pop music on the boom box while working in the dairy. Rock influences are Neil Young, Beck, Wilco, Luna and many many of the pop music songwriters of the 70\'s like Andrew Gold and Todd Rundgren. Forrest continues to play and turn out great music and has a very faithful following in the Kansas City metro area.