"Andy has been playing harmonica and singing professionally since 1977. He has recorded seven LPs, 12 CDs and two 45s. These recordings feature mostly Forest's original songs. After living in Europe for ten years he returned home to New Orleans in 1991 where he plays in clubs and frequently goes on tour in Europe and Canada. Early influences were Sonny Terry, Little Walter Jacobs, Sonny Boy Williamson, James Cotton, Paul Butterfield, Taj Mahal and Charlie Musselwhite - to name a few. He has played on stage with B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Johnny Shines, Champion Jack DuPree, James Booker and many other greats of the Blues. He has written scores of songs, one novel which was published in three languages (Letter From Hell) and paints outsider art, mostly of blues and jazz singers. Andy's cd _Real Stories: of love labor and other man-made catastrophes_ for Slang Records won Best Blues Album of 2007 in the Best of The Beat Awards of New Orleans. The CD NOtown Story: The Triumph of Turmoil was Nominated for another Best of The Beat Award for 2010. "