Discography

Maria Forde Solo

'Maria Forde Solo' is a recording my listeners have been requesting for years – 'We just want to hear you singing without lots of backing... it's your voice we want to hear'. This recording has given me the opportunity to sing songs as you may hear them at one of my solo concerts. It is also an opportunity to re-visit some of my most requested songs, introduce you to some new ones, and indulge in a few of my personal favourites. True, there are 'live' moments with a few stray notes, but I hope that you get the spirit and sincerity of my storytelling – and the raw emotion behind every word.

Maria Forde is a fine singer and a gifted songwriter. Like all good songwriters her lyrics often reflect an understanding of, and compassion for the human condition, with all it's triumphs and disasters, all it's bright peaks and dark corners........at her live performances she presents her songs with sincerity, passion and more than a dash of humour, and these very human attributes, along with her fine singing voice, is why she invariably establishes such a seemingly effortless rapport with her audiences.... ERIC BOGLE , MAY 2011

Little Black Rose

This is Maria's 6th album and certainly her most ambitious. Her songwriting skills, which have seen her material covered internationally as well as becoming near 'standards' in Australia, are as evident as ever. The great leap forward has been in her singing, where she has pushed herself to realize her ambition of a singer that writes, rather than a writer who sings. Musically the combination of a modern classical string quartet (The Silo String Quartet), Roots guitarist (Jimbo Mathus), and Latin percussion have all but seen her create her own genre on this recording. John Durr, Black Market Music