Rex Foster - Roads Of Tomorrow (1970)

Rex Foster, musician, type-setter author interprets, but also craftsman joailler, comes us from the hills of the south-west of Texas where it lives. On the road in Texas, in California, in New York, in Europe, for thirty years, it has been a musician of heart, a craftsman of heart. If you know the music of Texas, you already heard the name of Rex Foster among those of Gary P. Nunn, Willie Nelson, B.W stevenson. Jerry Jeff Walker, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark. It tells the life of tous. les. jours, sorrow, the joy, the lost moments, the first love, the last sigh, the sunbeam in winter, the days of rain in summer. Leaving its native Texas, Rex made its beginnings in the world of the music in California of the Sixties. The summer 1969, it joined a group of musicians who were creating a film following the first festival of Woodstock. They crossed the country in the caravan presenting of the spectacles and the free concerts. To make a documentary film of it, Warner Brothers Films A urges Francois Reichenbach, directing very famous French director. Francois and his team became integral part of this ((family “ artists. The final destination of the voyage and the end of film were the festival of the Island of White in England. 11s divided the scene with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and the other large ones of the music ((folk ”. Their part of the festival had as a head of poster Rod Stewart and its Faces group. Then, there was Saint-Tropez before Rex does not join Paris. It found in the capital Francois Reichenbach and Milan Melvin, its own American producer, which were making the drafting of film. Reichenbach presented Rex at colleagues whose influence in the music would be significant Thereafter for Rex., Herve Thousand (Paris Match, Radio Europe 1) arranged an appointment for Rex with Eddie Barclay and Leo Missir (Charles Aznavour, Johnny Hallyday). Barclay immediately considered one ((Bob Dylan texan “. In two months they completed, in Paris with American musicians and French, the first disc of Rex Foster Roads Of Tomorrow (Ways of Tomorrow) Roads of Tomorrow was a great success in Europe on Barclay and England on RCA, but it never left to the UnitedStates. I started out playing for folks at a coffeehouse in San Antonio, Texas called the Gatehouse. I had grown up listening to rock and roll but my dad wouldn’t buy me an electric guitar, so I became a skinny-kid-folkie hanging out behind the joint between sets, nursing a bottle of Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill wine and waiting for the Revolution to begin. It never did. One night in ‘70 or '71, a trio of what appeared to my young eyes to be Gypsies stumbled through the door all buckskin and beads and leather guitar bags and tales to tell of their travels in the Great Out Yonder. As it turns out, they weren’t foreigners at all but local heroes returned to the fold. Rex Foster, Don Harding, and Merrily Weeber had come out of one of my favorite local rock bands, Rachel’s Children, gone acoustic, traveled to France (!) and recorded a record (!!!). They were the first people I ever knew that had ever been anywhere or recorded anything and I was spellbound. (This was my first solo album, "Roads Of Tomorrow” r.f.) At 15 years old, I sometimes struggled for credibility in the local folk scene. Don and Rex never dissed me like that. They treated me as an apprentice artist, always glad to see me, always supportive. I never forgot it. Today, when I’m approached by a young songwriter and I’m tired and just want to get on the bus, I remember that night and my good fortune to find teachers along this long weird highway, and I try to smile like Rex did back then and say “What you got there, man?”
(johnkatsmc5.blogspot.com/2018/02/rex-foster-with-don-merrily-roads-of.html) 2001 Steve Earle.