Norman was so impressed that he signed the Foremen to a recording contract on Reprise, one of Warner Music's subsidiaries,[2] and went on to produce their debut album.
They also released a single from the former album, "Ain't No Liberal", in 1995, which featured an image of Republican politician Phil Gramm on the cover.
[5] Zimmerman has said that the political views expressed in his band's songs are influenced in part by the activism popular in the 1960s, and has named "Tom Lehrer and Phil Ochs and, to a lesser degree, I guess, [...] Pete Seeger and the honest-to-God activism that was going on in music at that time [i.e. the 1960s]" as his band's influences.
[1] Whitney has also described the band as "partly a goof on the lesser folk groups of the late '50s,"[6] while Billboard magazine has compared the satirical aspects of the Foremen's music to Allan Sherman.
[7] Jim Walsh has concurred with Zimmerman that the Foremen's music resembles that of Phil Ochs, as well as naming Steve Goodman as one of their influences.