"Everything is Falling" is the latest music video from Retro / Factory Underground recording artist Tom "The Suit" Forst, which premiered on April 4, 2020 in Elmore Magazine.
The song and video features outstanding performance by vocalist Christine Allman, aka "Queen of the Hive"
... Ohlman, who leads the band Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez, is a longtime vocalist on the Saturday Night Live Band, and appears annually on the W.C. Handy Music Festival in Florence / Sheffield / Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The cinematic Everything Falls was filmed at the historic Wall Street Theater in downtown Norwalk, Connecticut.
directed by Mark Alan and John Schlesky, the Factory Underground team that directed Forst's video for his song "Late Night Train".
"World of Broken Hearts," Forst's latest EP featuring blues rock "Everything is Falling," was recorded at Factory Underground Studios and produced by Ethan Isaac. Album,
Highly praised by American magazines Blues Scene and Maximum Volume, features guest musicians including Ohlman, Grammy-winning Paul Nelson (Johnny Winter), guitarist Ryan Hommel (Amos Lee), drummer Travis McNabb (Better Than). Ezra, Sugarland),
blues harp player James Montgomery and vocalist Tiffany T'Zel.
“Serendipity lit me up right after I returned to the world of music 11 years ago - I met Christine (Ohlman), who helped me hone my vocal skills and educated me in the new music business. Since then we have become friends
sometimes we play together and do studio sessions. I cannot tell you how thrilled I was when she readily agreed to join me to record the song “Everything Falls,” which I wrote when I was 17 years old. She is an icon and of course she did a great job on the song and video, ”Forst said.
Now 68, Tom Forst
former vice president of Cox Media, which is the root of his professional nickname "Suit". He left this world at the age of 57, giving notice exactly one day after paying the last college bill for his youngest child. It's time to return to your first love of music.
“Not that I never stopped playing, but I went up the stairs, put food on the table, took care of my family. I would take it home with me from anywhere in the country if that meant it was going to be a concert. But I always knew that one day I would return to music full-time, and when the time seemed right, I jumped with both feet. "
- said Forst.
“Not the sanest financial decision I've ever made,” he says with a laugh. "But I never looked back."
When he is not recording or performing, Tom Forst, who is a member of the Connecticut and New York Blues Hall of Fame, hosts the popular blues podcast called Chasing the Blues.
The first season of the podcast, released in December 2019, only 50 episodes featured interviews with fellow blues performers, including Mike Zito, Anthony Gomez, Joe Louis Walker, Dana Fuchs and more. The podcast, endorsed by the Blues Foundation and sponsored by Blues Festival Guide magazine, will begin its second season in April 2020.
