Born in 1955, Andy has been playing harmonica and singing professionally since 1977. He has recorded 7 LPs, 12 CDs and two 45s. These recordings feature mostly Forest’s original songs. After living in Europe for ten years, Andy returned to his home of New Orleans in 1991, where he plays regularly in clubs. He also frequently goes on tour in Europe and Canada.

Andy's 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 shared the stage with B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Johnny Shines, Champion Jack DuPree, James Booker and many other greats of the Blues.

Andy has written scores of songs, published one novel ("Letter From Hell") and paints “outside” art mostly of blues and jazz singers. Andy’s most recent CD “Real Stories: Of Love, Labor and Other Man-Made Catastrophies” for Slang Records won Best Blues Album of 2007 in the Best of The Beat Awards.

Besides leading his own band, Andy is now a member of The Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, and he plays on the Washboard Chaz CD, “Mixin’ it Up”.