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Gary Forrester (born 3 July 1946) is a musician,〔Latta, David, ''Australian Country Music'' (Random House Australia, 1991) (0 09 182581 4 ).〕〔"Capital love letter: Renaissance man Gary Forrester turns back to the novel," ''FishHead: Wellington's Magazine'', Issue 14, New Zealand, June 2012.〕 composer,〔〔 novelist,〔〔''Houseboating in the Ozarks'', Dufour Editions, 2006 (978-0802313416 ) (hardcover) (0802313418 ) (paperback).〕〔''Begotten, Not Made'', University of Nebraska Press (2007) (extended extract appears in ''Scoring from Second'', pp. 129-46 (0803259913 )).〕〔''The Connoisseur of Love'', Steele Roberts, 2012 (9781877577727 ).〕 poet,〔''See, e.g.'', "Sitting Bull Hegira", ''South Dakota Review'', The University of South Dakota, Fall 2007, p. 8.〕〔''See, e.g.'', "Unrequited", ''Poetry New Zealand'', Vol. 36, February 2008.〕〔''See, e.g.'', "Mockingbird", Poetrywall, ''Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop'', September 2007 (1-86942-095-0 ).〕〔''See, e.g.'', "Fleamarket", ''JAAM'' ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.〕〔''See, e.g.'', "Homo Sapiens Neandertalis", ''JAAM'' ("Just Another Art Movement") September 2008.〕〔''See, e.g.'', "The Thirst That Can Never Be Slaked", ''Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology'' 2009.〕〔''See, e.g.'', "Anna Searches for Her Son", ''Voyagers: A New Zealand Science Fiction Poetry Anthology'' 2009.〕〔All from ''The Beautiful Daughters of Men: A Novella in Short Verse from Tinakori Hill'', The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIII, Supplement No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 08945993 (a journal established by the American Legal Studies Association to promote humanistic, critical, trans-disciplinary writing, and featuring works of poetry, essays, memoirs, stories, and criticism).〕 short-story writer,〔''A Kilgore Trout Moment'', The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, West Virginia University (2009), ISSN: 08945993.〕〔''Tulips'', The Legal Studies Forum, Volume XXXVI, No. 1, West Virginia University (2012), ISSN: 08945993.〕 memoirist,〔''Blaw, Hunter, Blaw Thy Horn'', Mayhaven Publishing, Inc., 2011 (978-1-932278-68-2 ).〕 and academic.〔As cited in the text of this article, Forrester lectured at the University of Melbourne from 1976–80, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983–85, at the University of Illinois from 2000–03, and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007-2013.〕 He was profiled by Random House Australia (''Australian Country Music'', 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s,〔 and in New Zealand by ''FishHead: Wellington's Magazine'' as a "modern Renaissance man."〔 According to ''Fishhead'', "in addition to publishing three novels and a book of poems, Forrester is a successful bluegrass composer and musician, an advocate for indigenous rights, and a father of six children. Oh, and don't forget his day job - law lecturer in ethics at Victoria University."〔 He taught at the University of Melbourne from 1976 to 1980, at the Northwestern School of Law from 1983 to 1985, at Deakin University from 1991 to 1992, at the University of Illinois from 2000 to 2003,〔Anderson, Stephen, "Gary Forrester's novel follows odyssey of profane lawyer", ISBA ''Bar News'', Vol. 46, No. 10, April 2006. (()).〕 and at Victoria University of Wellington from 2007 to 2015. Beginning in the 1980s, he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress;〔"Lawyering down under leads to bluegrass tunes, Rank Strangers", Chicago ''Daily Law Bulletin'', 22 September 1989, p. 2.〕〔"Grand Ronde Reservation Plan" (Gary Forrester, Tribal Attorney), November 1985 (prepared under a grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, pursuant to Public Law 98-165, 22 November 1983, Grand Ronde Restoration Act).〕 authored a text on American Indian law;〔Forrester, Gary and H. Barry Holt, ''Digest of American Indian Law: Cases and Chronology'', Fred B. Rothman & Co. (1990), (083770684-x ).〕 and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, and other legal topics.〔''See, e.g.'', "Aboriginal Land Rights", Melbourne University ''Law Review'', 1986; "U.S. Indian Legal Services", Australian ''Legal Services Bulletin'', 1982; "The Himalaya", Melbourne University ''Law Review'', 1978; "Judicial Approval of Ritual Spearing", Melbourne University ''Summons'', 1976; "Illinois' Capital Punishment Statute", University of Illinois ''Law Forum'', 1975; "Recovery for Economic Loss", Melbourne University ''Summons'', 1977; "The Credit Contract & Consumer Finance Act", ''New Zealand Lawyer'', Issue 50, October 2006; "Know Your Rights", New Zealand Law Society ''Law Talk'', Issue 671, July 2006; "Illinois' Respondents' in Discovery Statute – Federal Implications", ''The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association'', Summer 2005; "Respondents in Discovery and the Statute of Limitations", ''The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association'', Winter 2001; "Conflicting Statutes of Limitation and Municipal Liability in Illinois", ''The Trial Journal of the Illinois Trial Lawyers' Association'', Spring 2001; "The Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act", Illinois Causes of Action – Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 2, ''Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education'', 2002-2014; "Removal and Remand from Federal Court", Illinois Causes of Action - Elements, Forms and Winning Tips: Estate, Business & Non-Personal Injury Actions, Chapter 55, ''Illinois Institute for Continuing Education'', 2008-2014; "Decisions Interpreting Chapter 735 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes, 5/2-801 through 5/2-806", ''American Bar Association Class Action Survey'', 2002-06 editions; "American Nightmare" (regarding the visionary architect Buckminster Fuller), ''Pacific Ecologist'', 2009, Issue 19.〕 ''Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry'' (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Gary Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer."〔Elkins, James, ''Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry'', http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/intro/contemp_pt1.html.〕 ==Bluegrass, Folk, and Americana music== Forrester's musical compositions were recorded (under his "nom de guitar" Eddie Rambeaux) on the albums ''Dust on the Bible'' (RCA Records, 1987), ''Uluru'' (Larrikin Records, 1988) and ''Kamara'' (Troubadour Records, 1990).〔''Bluegrass Unlimited'', October 2011, p.40.〕〔''Bluegrass Unlimited'', June 1990, p. 67.〕〔''Bluegrass Unlimited'', May 1989, p.69.〕〔''Bluegrass Unlimited'', April 1989, p. 59.〕〔"Melbourne Australia's Rank Strangers Play It Straight", ''Bluegrass Unlimited'', December 1988, pp. 54-57 (feature article).〕 In 2015, Forrester issued his first solo album, ''Alma Rose'' (Te Ahumairangi Records, 2015), featuring 12 new compositions and three cover songs. In 1988, his single "Uluru" (the Aboriginal name for Australia's central Ayers Rock) was featured on two national commemorative albums by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC), as "the cream of a very rich mix" of Australian country music.〔''That's Australia'', Larrikin Records, 1988 (produced by ABC television).〕〔''Music Deli'', Larrikin Records, Larrikin LRF 227, 1988 (noting that "the Rank Strangers from Melbourne play their own style of contemporary bluegrass").〕〔"Strangers' band with a bluegrass mission", ''The Sun-Herald'' (Australia), 4 December 1988, p. 140.〕 The ABC observed: "Like our landscape, the history of Australia is best told by our poets, and this recording offers a unique slice... of our bushland, our people, our dreams, and our extraordinary sense of humour."〔〔The song ''Uluru'' tells the story of the Azaria Chamberlain disappearance, one of Australia's most notorious murder mysteries. Forrester based his song on the 1985 book by lawyer colleague John Bryson, ''Evil Angels'' (ISBN 0-670-80993-4). Bryson's book became the basis for a major film, A Cry in the Dark, starring Meryl Streep and New Zealander Sam Neill, directed by Australian Fred Schepisi. See ''Bluegrass Unlimited'', October 2011, p. 40.〕 Forrester's music also appeared on the Larrikin Records 1996 composite album, ''Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees'', along with Australian country-folk icons Eric Bogle, Judy Small, The Bushwackers, and others.〔''Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees'', Larrikin Records, 1996.〕 Random House Australia's 1991 profile declared that "the most striking aspect of the albums, apart from their frequency, is the exceptionally high standard of songwriting."〔〔"Bluegrass artist from Tuscola gains fame down under", Champaign-Urbana (IL) ''News-Gazette'', 24 January 1992 ("''etc./Music''" section).〕 ''Australian Country Music'' observed that the bluegrass band fronted by Forrester (as lead singer and guitarist), the Rank Strangers,〔"Good story, good songs", ''Country Beat'' (Australia), 2 December 1987.〕〔"Riding high on gospel-country boom", ''Daily Telegraph (Australia)'', 8 October 1987, p. 25.〕〔"Strangers rank with the best", ''Weekly Times'' (Australia), 4 November 1987, p. 55.〕 "have a musical immediacy that typifies the best of bluegrass and recalls such players as The Stanley Brothers and Bill Monroe."〔 According to ''Country Beat'', Australia's country music journal, ''Dust on the Bible'' was "one of the best bluegrass-country albums released in Australia" in 1987, and Forrester was "one of the best songwriters living in Australia."〔〔〔 In 1988, the Rank Strangers swept the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Tamworth, New South Wales, winning Best Group, Best Male Vocalist, and Best Composition.〔〔〔 In 1989 and 1990, ''Dust on the Bible'' and ''Uluru'' were finalists (top five) in the overall Australian Country Music Awards (ACMA).〔 The Rank Strangers were edged out in 1989 in ACMA's "best new talent" category by future country star James Blundell, and in 1990 in ACMA's "song of the year" category by country legend Smoky Dawson. In 1990, the Rank Strangers finished second in the world (to a Czech band) in an international competition sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), Nashville, Tennessee.〔〔〔 Forrester led the Rank Strangers on tours of Australia and America,〔〔〔〔〔"Joining the front ranks", Champaign-Urbana (IL) ''News-Gazette Weekend'', 8 September 1989, p. 14.〕 sharing billings with bluegrass legends Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss,〔Krauss, like Forrester a native of Champaign, Illinois, loaned her bass player John Pennell (a Tolono, Illinois, native and a successful Nashville songwriter) to the Rank Strangers for their appearance at the International Bluegrass Music Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, and elsewhere. See ''Bluegrass Unlimited'', October 2011, p. 24.〕 Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Tony Rice, and many others.〔 The American tour included "successful appearances at the Station Inn in Nashville〔 (country-folk icon Townes Van Zandt ) and the IBMA Fan Fest in Owensboro, Kentucky,"〔〔〔"Die-hard fans call for more as bluegrass festival ends", Owensboro (KY) ''Messenger-Inquirer'', 25 September 1989 (incl. photo).〕 as well as headlining at the Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest in Kentucky, then "the largest () music festival in the USA."〔"Louisville Bluegrass and American MusicFest", Louisville (KY) ''Courier-Journal'', MusicFest advertising section, 31 August 1989, p. 2.〕 ''Bluegrass Unlimited'', the oldest and most influential journal of bluegrass music〔Neil V. Rosenberg, in ''Bluegrass: A History'', University of Illinois Press (1985) (ISBN 0-252-00265-2), sets out the history of ''Bluegrass Unlimited'' (continuously published since its inception in 1966) at pp. 224-227, and thereafter notes (at 263, 278, 280, 285, 299, 315, 329, 334, 344, 354, 362 and 367) its prominence and influence as the oldest of the nationally-distributed bluegrass magazines. As Bill C. Malone observed in ''Country Music USA'', University of Texas Press (2002) (ISBN 0292752628), at p. 542, ''Bluegrass Unlimited'' magazine was established by highly-regarded musicians Peter Kuykendall and Richard Spottswood. It is almost exclusively devoted to bluegrass music in the United States and abroad, with occasional reference to old time country music. It is a treasure trove of information on every phase of bluegrass music - biographical articles, discographies, record and book reviews, concert and festival dates, interviews, classified ads, and songs.〕 (based in Warrenton, Virginia), declared that "the Rank Strangers have a unique angle on bluegrass music, and ought to be proud of making their own brand of music come out on top in the Land Down Under."〔 ''BU'' described ''Uluru'' as "one of the most intellectually stimulating bluegrass works of recent years, and it cannot be restricted to mere national boundaries."〔 The Rank Strangers were the subject of a feature article in the December 1988 issue of ''Bluegrass Unlimited''.〔 In a 2011 retrospective, ''BU'' featured the career of the Rank Strangers' banjo guru Peter Somerville, and recalled Forrester as "an excellent songwriter" of "challenging original material."〔 Britain's country music newspaper, ''International Country Music News'', noting the band's successes at Australia's National Country Music Festival in Tamworth, New South Wales, found the compositions contained "archetypal elements of nostalgia, humour and religion", as well as themes that were "contemporary and Australian in influence."〔"Blue Skies: Roots & Branches", ''International Country Music News'' (England), January 1989, p. 10.〕 International music critic Eberhard Finke, writing in the German magazine ''Bluegrass-Bühne'', identified the source of some of the compositions: "In 1987 when his grandfather died in Illinois, he put his grief into writing songs. Not that they are sad songs - there are swinging happy ones, with plenty of religious overtones that brought him closer to his grandfather's legacy. He tuned his guitar to double drop-D, DADGBD, making the G-run more difficult, but better suiting his words and melodies."〔"The Rank Strangers", ''Bluegrass-Buhne: Old Time & Bluegrass Magazine'', 8 Jahrgang, Nr. 46, August–September 1988, pp. 34-35 (translation by Vera Christmann).〕 ''NZ Musician'', New Zealand's magazine devoted to the national and international music scene, described Forrester's 2015 solo album in the following terms: "With a steely yet gentle voice that at times reminds me of Johnny Cash or Leonard Cohen, Gary Forrester's neatly constructed songs and dulcet tones will lull you along his album's entirety. His lyrics have an aged air, the word choices interesting without being corny or melodramatic. Stories range over a lot of topics and he uses nice rhyme schemes that don't follow his finger patterns. His rhyme and rhythm provide plenty to listen to in an uncomplicated way, the choice of chords, and the mixture of major and minor shapes come together beautifully without being something heard before - despite this being folk music. Choruses build nicely and verses flow down like rivers. The whole album is almost solely performed by Forrester and his guitar, with only small additions of banjo and mandolin. Engineer Thomas Lambert did a great job of capturing the guitar's dynamic and when other instruments do come in they are not invasive. A lovely, surprisingly complex album.".〔"Gary Forrester: Alma Rose", ''NZ Musician'', Vol. 19, No. 1, June/July 2015, p. 35.〕 Music critic Jeff Harford, writing in the ''Otago Daily Times'', commented: "For every nugget of truth in a great song, a corresponding seam of life experience is commonly found in its writer, and Wellington-based Illinois-born Gary Forrester brings a hatful of both to this Americana-folk release. The composer, novelist, poet, academic, and legal advocate for indigenous peoples takes a sideways step from his bluegrass past with the Rank Strangers to deliver a no-frills set that is, for the most part, nothing more than the man, his guitar and harmonica. That his 12 originals sit comfortably alongside covers of Bob Dylan, Nanci Griffith and Gillian Welch songs says much about their strength."〔"Album Reviews: Gary Forrester", ''Otago Daily Times'', 4 May 2015.〕 Music critic Colin Morris, writing in the Wellington's ''The Dominion Post'', wrote that "Gary Forrester is a damn fine guitar picker .. with an innate sense of rhythm coupled with fine lyrics and a story to tell. His ''Rosa Sharon'' is redolent of Johnny Cash singing ''Hurt''. Seek it out."〔"Wellington Renaissance man Gary Forrester hits the mark with new album", ''The Dominion Post'', 11 August 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary Forrester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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