Keith Forrester was born in Atlanta Georgia to a working class family. His love for music started with listening to his dad, who was a jazz and rock musician, play guitar and piano. At the age of eight he began his own experimentation on a very poorly made classical guitar that, for reasons unknown, had steel strings on it and ridiculously high action. Keith’s formative years involved a lot of time listening to old 45’s (or “funny records” as his dad called them) of Louis Armstrong and Hank Williams along with a horde of 33’s of The Ventures, Chet Atkins, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers, and Lynyrd Skynyrd to name a few. Living in Bible Belt country, Keith was raised in charismatic churches that preached in every style short of snake-handling. He became quickly disillusioned with these churches as a teenager and eventually forsook their hell fire and brimstone dogmas as a young adult. After the release of two solo steel string instrumental albums in the American Primitive style Keith was encouraged to record a vocal album by his best friend who had noticed him singing during a group picking session in a cabin in Alabama. Subsequently Little Horn was born and the bare bones “Such Pretty Houses” was recorded. Struggles with the lingering haunts of peculiar religious doctrines as well as personal experiences with joy and sorrow are the main emotional drivers behind Little Horn and the musical style is a shimmering southern-style gothic folk. Recording for the next Little Horn album will begin sometime in the fall/winter of 2010. Keep your eye out.