title: Alive on Arrival
text: # Alive on Arrival
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | AllMusic | |
  | Christgau's Record Guide | B |
  | The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
  | The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
  
  Alive on Arrival is the first album by the American singer-songwriter Steve Forbert, released in 1978.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All songs written by Steve Forbert
  
  * "Goin' Down to Laurel" – 4:39
  * "Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast" – 2:49
  * "Thinkin'" – 3:25
  * "What Kinda Guy?" – 2:34
  * "It Isn't Gonna Be That Way" – 4:55
  * "Big City Cat" – 3:50
  * "Grand Central Station, March 18, 1977" – 4:13
  * "Tonight I Feel So Far Away from Home" – 3:14
  * "Settle Down" – 3:46
  * "You Cannot Win If You Do Not Play" – 4:33
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Steve Forbert – guitar, harmonica, vocals
  * David Sanborn – alto saxophone on "Big City Cat"
  * Brian Torff – acoustic bass on "Tonight I Feel So Far from Home"
  * Steve Burgh – lead guitar
  * Dennis Good – trombone
  * Robbie Kondor – organ, piano
  * Barry Lazarowitz – drums, tambourine
  * Hugh McDonald – bass; electric guitar on "What Kinda Guy?"
  * Harvey Shapiro – pedal steel
  
  ### Technical
  
  * Glenn Berger, Charles Clifton - engineer
  * Danny Fields - front cover photography
  