Artist Info: Marla Forbes

Marla Forbes is a 1940's singer/songwriter related to Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear. She died in the 1940’s from cirrhosis of the liver after having spent much of her life trying to make it in NYC as a singer. Her recordings were lost for some time, until 2000 when a relative unearthed them and transferred them to CD and mastered them. It was a few years back that Ed Droste got his first taste of her music, all 23 unnamed tracks. And track #3 always struck Ed as something he would love to reinterpret for Grizzly Bear. [read more...]