January 1, 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Friends and fans, The New Year has begun and with it I hope we will open a new chapter of productivity as a band.  2012, to be quite honest, was very rough and I for one teetered on the edge of complete burn out wondering why I keep this dream of music playing alive.  However, our last show this year brought us warm support and much needed encouragement from all of you in attendance and it helped me out of that.  In addition I have the benefit of the tried and true evidence that when I don’t write/play, I become depressed, hence the necessity.  I have always hoped that this necessity I feel translates somehow into something meaningful to others and as all of your support and kind words have attested I am feeling more and more confident that it does.  That’s all that matters to me.  If we floundered in obscurity for thirty years I would just want to know that the music, the words, spoke something very needed to even just one person.  Something they had been looking for and finally found.  A yearning fulfilled.  I am now witness that this does, and has indeed happened and it has been for more than just one person.  In my mind’s eye I see all the people this has happened to slowly but surely forming an interconnected web of support that is the very foundation of our existence offering proof that the process of living room song writing to full band stage performance and recording is not just a selfish masturbatory exercise. We had hoped to be well on our way to releasing our full length album to follow up 2011’s EP Twelve but as it is now nothing has been recorded.  We have however been honing our healthy body of new material into something that we hope will be well worth the wait when it finally hits the air waves.  The current goal is to begin recording by Spring 2013.  In the meantime we hope to have a much more robust gigging schedule this year so you will have plenty of opportunity to hear what we’ve been up to.  Our band consists of a collective effort of balancing the demands of making ends meet via regular (and demanding) jobs, parenthood (in the case of DJ and I) and having enough energy and money left to make the music.  This year I plan to be more creative and team oriented in transforming Little Horn into something that will stay on your radar and provide you with a unique soul enriching, multifaceted product that you won’t find anywhere else.  Thank all of you for your support and believing in us when we didn’t even believe in ourselves. See you out there from a stage somewhere sometime very soon. Cordially, Keith Forrester

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Friends and fans,

The New Year has begun and with it I hope we will open a new chapter of productivity as a band.  2012, to be quite honest, was very rough and I for one teetered on the edge of complete burn out wondering why I keep this dream of music playing alive.  However, our last show this year brought us warm support and much needed encouragement from all of you in attendance and it helped me out of that.  In addition I have the benefit of the tried and true evidence that when I don’t write/play, I become depressed, hence the necessity.  I have always hoped that this necessity I feel translates somehow into something meaningful to others and as all of your support and kind words have attested I am feeling more and more confident that it does.  That’s all that matters to me.  If we floundered in obscurity for thirty years I would just want to know that the music, the words, spoke something very needed to even just one person.  Something they had been looking for and finally found.  A yearning fulfilled.  I am now witness that this does, and has indeed happened and it has been for more than just one person.  In my mind’s eye I see all the people this has happened to slowly but surely forming an interconnected web of support that is the very foundation of our existence offering proof that the process of living room song writing to full band stage performance and recording is not just a selfish masturbatory exercise.

We had hoped to be well on our way to releasing our full length album to follow up 2011’s EP Twelve but as it is now nothing has been recorded.  We have however been honing our healthy body of new material into something that we hope will be well worth the wait when it finally hits the air waves.  The current goal is to begin recording by Spring 2013.  In the meantime we hope to have a much more robust gigging schedule this year so you will have plenty of opportunity to hear what we’ve been up to. 

Our band consists of a collective effort of balancing the demands of making ends meet via regular (and demanding) jobs, parenthood (in the case of DJ and I) and having enough energy and money left to make the music.  This year I plan to be more creative and team oriented in transforming Little Horn into something that will stay on your radar and provide you with a unique soul enriching, multifaceted product that you won’t find anywhere else. 

Thank all of you for your support and believing in us when we didn’t even believe in ourselves.

See you out there from a stage somewhere sometime very soon.

Cordially,

Keith Forrester

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November 12, 2012
We’re playing the day after Thanksgiving. Lots of new material. Be there!

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July 22, 2012

Here we are playing “Letter to Josey” unplugged on a roof in Saint Louis.

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June 22, 2012

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May 23, 2012

Plush Saint Louis

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April 22, 2012
Ok St. Louis, we are coming to love on you. https://www.facebook.com/events/208199045949470/

Ok St. Louis, we are coming to love on you. https://www.facebook.com/events/208199045949470/

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March 10, 2012
Thanks to everyone who came out last night.  In my absent mindedness I forgot to put up this fine poster for it so, in hindsight, here it is.  Would hate for ya’ll not to see it.  // Keith

Thanks to everyone who came out last night.  In my absent mindedness I forgot to put up this fine poster for it so, in hindsight, here it is.  Would hate for ya’ll not to see it.  // Keith

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February 22, 2012
LITTLE HORN RELEASES "BOARDS AND COLORS"

whaleheartrecords:

We’re proud to bring you the new release from Little Horn and Whale Heart, Boards and Colors. While hard at work on their follow up LP, Little Horn has decided to offer here the remaining tracks from the Twelve sessions, their lauded sophomore release.  ”Cheyenne” starts Boards and Colors in a lovely and familiar fashion. Just Keith and his guitar, it recalls the first Little Horn album, Such Pretty Houses.  ”Cheyenne” is followed by the heroic bombast of “Array of Colors”, the instrumental throw down of “Trestleboards” and the majestic “After Darkness Light”. This release closes a chapter for the band as they continue to play shows, develop and record new material. Download it, (name your price) enjoy it and be sure to catch Little Horn at their show in Atlanta on March 9th!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

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February 13, 2012

Live @ 529.  Feb. 7, 2012

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January 12, 2012
Awesome Review of Twelve. Not sure how we overlooked it before but here it is.

“Lullaby for the Working Class’ Blanket Warm is one of my favorite records, a pre-Saddle Creek Mike Mogis’ finest hour. There are few sets since that match that album’s well-churned mixture of blue-collar gruffness and arrangement elegance. Little Horn’s debut EP, Twelve, comes extremely close. Its best song is “Bridges Break,” a song that fits more sober depth into three-and-a-half minutes than most bands manage in an hour; don’t mind the “Champagne Supernova” guitar lick that opens the song. The initial sense of boozy indulgence is dried up by the nervously tapping drums, which contrast neatly with the lush triumph of the chorus’ guitar/horn break. That sense of internal conflict extends to the lyrics, which find singer Keith Forrester at odds with himself: “Your righteousness would be nothing without my sin,” he admits in “Morning Star,” while “Thief” opens with the crucial lines, “You know guilt is a thief in the night / It’ll take your life away.” Forrester’s oak-sturdy baritone anchors the sprawling guitar-centric arrangements, nodding toward the National’s Matt Berninger or Centro-Matic’s Will Johnson as well as Mogis.

It’s impressive, dynamic stuff, richer and more emotionally vivid than, say, Fleet Foxes or Midlake’s most recent offerings. (Listening to this, I’m pretty sure I’m hearing what most people do when they put on Bon Iver.) Five more songs and we’d be having a year-end list discussion; with Twelve in hand, though, we can wait another year.  David Greenwald, rawkblog.net (Nov. 1, 2011)

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