Forbert's songs have been recorded by several artists, including Rosanne Cash, Keith Urban, Marty Stuart and Webb Wilder.

"[6] In September 2018, he released his self-penned memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk Rock, with editor Therese Boyd.

[7] As a child, he fell in love with music, even playing air guitar in a pretend band he called The Mosquitos.

"[12] Even though the sleeve of his second album Jackrabbit Slim stated that "Romeo's Tune" is "dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard", the song is not really about the Supremes singer who died in 1976.

His tribute album to Jimmie Rodgers, Any Old Time, was nominated for a 2004 Grammy Award in the Best Traditional Folk category.

[18] In 2006, he was inducted into the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame, and in 2007, Keith Urban covered his hit "Romeo's Tune.

An exhibit of his cell phone photographs opened at the Tinney Contemporary Art Gallery in Nashville in September 2011.

[22] In 2012, he joined Blue Corn Music, and they released Over With You, produced by Chris Goldsmith (the Blind Boys of Alabama), that same year.

[26] In 2013, Blue Corn Music re-released Forbert's first two albums, Alive on Arrival and its gold-certified [citation needed] follow-up Jackrabbit Slim.

That year marked the 35th anniversary of the release of Alive on Arrival,[17] and Forbert played that album in its entirety at a number of shows.

[17] Forbert's memoir, Big City Cat: My Life in Folk-Rock (PFP Publishing, 2018), was edited by Therese Boyd and released in September 2018.

[27] To accompany the book, at the same time, Forbert released The Magic Tree album on Blue Rose Music.

[28] Joining Forbert on The Magic Tree is longtime accompanying guitarist Clay Barnes[29] and the album was produced by Karl Derfler.