Forest Wayne Allen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

On the stages of Cheatham Street Warehouse, Luckenbach, Tavern in the Gruene, The Austin Airport, Rowdy Float Trip 2008, The Mean eyed cat, Hill's Cafe' and The Austin and San Antonio Rodeos is where Forest has been cutting his musical teeth.He moved to San Marcos in Janary of 2007 and has been playing his tunes and making friends ever since. Forest, orignially from Mechanicsville, Virginia graduated from Virginia Tech in May of 2006. Instead of finding a career in Environmental Science, he came to teach Outdoor Education on Possum Kingdom Lake. On a short vacation, he came down to Gruene, Blacno, Austin and San Marcos to see the lights and hear the sounds. When he came down for good, the closest person he knew lived in Dallas.Since then, he has found a home at Cheatham Street Warehouse while recording a record with the legendary Kent Finlay and Cheatham Street Records. "On the Outskirts of Nowhere" will be his third self-released record in 5 years.While in the Hill Country for a short year-and-a-half, Forest has opened for Stoney Larue, Mickey and the Motorcars, Two Tons of Steel, Doug Moreland, Ryan James, Drew Kennedy, Owne Temple, Rodney Hayden, Josh Grider, Texas Renegade, Zach Walther and the Cronkies and Keith Davis. He has also played alongside Kent Finlay, Ryan Turner, Mike Ethan Messick, Tres Womack, Bill Rice and Jimmy Kaiser. He will be opening for Billy Joe Shaver at Winterfest in Beaumont on January of 2009.

My Interests

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Member Since: 19/06/2005
Band Website: www.forestwaynetrain.com
Band Members: Seth Bruton on Bass and harmonies Josh Milligan on Drums and harmonies (also plays with "Yellow Lady Slipper") www.yellowladyslipper.com Allan Goodman on rhythm/lead guitars and harmonies (also plays with Jordan Minor (www.myspace.com/jordanminormusic), Claire Cunningham (www.myspace.com/clairecunningham) and Stephanie Briggs (http://www.myspace.com/stephaniebriggsmusic) Forest Wayne Allen on lead vocals and acoustic guitars
Influences: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ryan Adams, Robert Earl Keen, Ben Harper, Wade Bowen, Roger Creager, Kevin Fowler, Steve Miller Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jack Johnson, Black Crows, Randy Rogers Band, Dirks Bentley, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Recklass Kelly, Shane Rogers and the Roadhouse band, In The Red, Dan Foxx, Divided Highway, Garth Brooks, Deana Carter, Gary Allen, Jason Aldean, Lapdogs, Steve Earl, Joe Walsh, Gin Blossoms , Graham Parsons, David Lee Murphy, Third Day
Sounds Like: Americana, Classic Rock, Folk, Folk Rock, Country, Alt country, Bluegrass, GospelI've been told I sould like: Ryan Adams, Tom Petty, Ben Harper, Damien Rice, David Lee Murphy, Gary Allen, Alan Jackson and Ronnie Van Zant. Quite a combo.
Record Label: http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1634919/
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Your Heart, your mind and your flesh

I believe that all humans posess three things. They will have them until they die. They were given to us, I believe by God, but others may believe by nature. Our three posessions tha...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:36:00 GMT

Love. I would do it again.

He had mistreaded his love and their unwed baby son in the recent weeks. Even though he was young, he'd thought he was near the end of his life. He was confused ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:25:00 GMT

Is the left side of my body cursed?

Here are all the scars/injuries to the left side of my body. Three screws in my left shoulder from tearing my labrum in a backyard football game A ligament problem in my left knee, when I put a...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:45:00 GMT

My little trip

I've been inside way too much since I got burned. When you have Tic disorder and you are ADD, you have to wiggle. I've been wanting to get outdoors for days. There really isn't an excuse, ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:43:00 GMT

new song i wrote while i should have been doing organic chem

This is a new song I wrote, cause' the shoulder never gets the girl. Either love me or get away I got things that I cant say Around your friends My hand I can not lend Be...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:27:00 GMT

I've been in school for 19 years...here's a little something from Kindergarden.

Dear Ms. Allen Forest had a very bad day at school today. He seems to think that everything we do is a joke. Even when I have to move his monkey on the tree, he laughs. We had a test...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:04:00 GMT

my prayer last night

why do i stay up so latejust to do the things i hatewhy do i cry out for my kingand then curse him with what I bringwhy do i wreck the things i lovewhy do i bury the things i trust why do i waste the ...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:35:00 GMT

A new song

Here's a new song I've been working on, just the lyrics. Baby we can leave our handprints There's wet concrete in every town I keep hearing everybody say that you two gotta settle down B...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 22:00:00 GMT