People from Ford County, Illinois

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Chapters: People from Champaign, Illinois, James Tobin, Ludacris, Gary Forrester, Alison Krauss, George Will, Katherine Reutter, Iris Chang, Stanford Parris, Tim Johnson, Trenesha Biggers, Kevin Anderson, M. David Lee III, John Richardson, Daniel B. Shapiro, Vashti McCollum, Bonnie Blair, J Leman, Leslie C. Arends, Bob Richards, Amy Chua, George Huff, Ethel Clayton, Ryler DeHeart, David Hatcher Childress, Harry Forrester, Michael H. Kenyon, Matt Herges, Tom Bodett, Doug Karsch, Rod Fletcher, Harold Edward Dahl, Bill Geist, Adam Seward, John Arthur Love, List of people from Champaign, Illinois, Fred W. Tanner, Gerald Welch, Seth Michael Donsky, David Rodocker, Lewis Hastings Sarett, Richard M. Noyes, Patrick Melton, Todd Peat, Terry Luttrell, Big Jeff Pfeffer, Mikel Leshoure, Bird Sim Coler, Mark Spencer, Henry M. Beardsley, Phil Coleman, Jan Levine Thal, Adam Schmitt. Excerpt: Gary Forrester (aka Jeshel Forrester) (born in the United States, 1946) is a New Zealand-Australian musician, composer, novelist, poet, and memoirist. He was profiled by Random House Australia (Australian Country Music, 1991) as one of the major figures in the Australian music scene during the 1980s and 1990s. Also a law professor, he represented Indian tribes in securing restoration legislation through the United States Congress; authored a text on American Indian law; and wrote numerous articles on the rights of indigenous peoples, the environment, and other legal topics. Strangers To Us All: Lawyers and Poetry (featuring biographies and works of poets and writers who have a legal background) declared that "Gary Forrester is a hard man to pigeon-hole. He has practiced law, taught law, and spent time away from the legal profession. He is a singer, musician, poet, and writer." Forrester's musical compositions were recorded (under his "nom de guitar" Eddie Rambeaux) on the albums Dust on the Bible (RCA Records, 1987), Uluru (Larrikin Records, 1988) and Kamara (Troubadour Records, 1990). In 1988, his single "Uluru" (the Aboriginal name for Australia's central Ayers Rock) was featured on two national commemorative albums by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (the ABC), as "the cream of a very rich mix" of Australian country music. The ABC observed: "Like our landscape, the history of Australia is best told by our poets, and this recording offers a unique slice... of our bushland, our people, our dreams, and our extraordinary sense of humour." Forrester's music also appeared on the Larrikin Records 1996 composite album, Give Me a Home Among the Gum Trees, along with Australian country-folk icons Eric Bogle, Judy Small, The Bushwackers, and others. Random House Australia's 1991 profile declared that "the most striking aspect of the albums, apart from their frequency, is the exceptionally high standard of songwriting." Australian Country Music observed that the blueg