Credit: Barbara FG May 22, 2024 – Today, GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter Joe Ely has announced his new album Driven to Drive, due out August 2 via Rack ‘Em Records / Thirty Tigers. With twenty-three albums and several million miles under the West Texas native’s belt, Driven to Drive is Ely’s first road album, featuring a collection of songs inspired by his travels from different …
Photo Credit: Kelsey Hunter Ayres The Gaslight Anthem have shared a new song “History Books,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services on their own Rich Mahogany Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. The heavy-hearted track – which sees frontman Brian Fallon trading duet vocals with longtime band champion and fellow New Jerseyan Bruce Springsteen – is accompanied by an …
I had spent so much time not thinking of the past, or the future. On that day, that night, her last… I wasn’t thinking of the present anymore, either. She lay there, with enough Fentanyl to kill a rhino, gasping for breath. Whimpering for breath. All I could think of was, “Please quit, my love. …
The songs of Bruce Springsteen might seem like an odd choice for Swedish recording artist, Moa Holmsten. After fronting heavy metal band, Meldrum, then releasing two dynamic and avant-garde albums of her own songs (Do You Want Me, Death? and All Blade, No Handle)… Moa Holmsten and Tony Naima went into the studio in 2013 …
“Tunnel of Love” – Bruce Springsteen. Not a single Bruce fan cares for this song but me. Alone in my passion, I roam freely. [Alicia also posted a photo from last night of the ad hoc memorial for the Cafe Racer victims in Seattle HERE.] – Alicia Dara – @thevolcanodiary – #100songs100days
Here is one of the best songs you’ve likely never heard, despite the fame of those involved: I have long been a huge Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes fan and when this album came out in 1991 I thought it would finally be the vehicle to take SSJ to the top nationally, instead of …
An old friend from Montana days queried me the other night as to my overall take on Bruce Springsteen, in light of Da Boss’ brand new LP, Wrecking Ball. Here’s my reply: Bruce is a far more interesting case than one would ever surmise from reading his press of the past 30 years, or hearing …
This morphs into “634-5789″ and then Bruce goes up into the balcony, and at 9:22 you can see Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones (lower right).” – David Handelman
I kinda got off the Springsteen bandwagon back around Born in the USA [with the exception of The Seeger Sessions]. The new record, Wrecking Ball, is pretty good. It has flashes of the old stuff, the soul that we heard on The River and even Greetings from Asbury Park. The production isn’t as stripped down …
“Jungleland” conveys Springsteen’s Runyonesque Born to Run-era urban aesthetic through his most complicated storytelling and perhaps his most transcendent poetry. He wanted grimy, realistic, lumpenprole art on the order of Last Exit to Brooklyn. As the years pass, it’s becoming clear he achieved it. The story about the Magic Rat and his sleek machine may …
An in-depth obituary by the Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot can be found here. .
Thought you’d enjoy this latest YouTube find, from a Grin reunion show ca. 2004 in Rockville, MD. Always my fave Nils Lofgren song and solo, live he takes it to another level, and makes it look like a casual stroll in the park! Another D.C. Area “Master of the Stratocaster (and/or Telecaster)”, for …
I always post this song. Gary Tallent’s bass line makes it happen. Between the tone and his slides, it’s quite a performance. – Chris Fox http://youtu.be/J8PB1a1c9zA .
Excellent clip. I like when artists strip down their songs to very simple acoustic arrangements, like Springsteen does here and on his ‘Nebraska’ album. It creates a more intimate performance. It’s a part of what gives albums like Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ and early 1960s Bob Dylan tracks their enduring power. With ‘Nebraska,’ you might almost …
My appreciation for Bruce Springsteen happened much later than most people. It was 2005 to be exact. I was given a copy of “Nebraska” by Barton Carroll when we were touring with Crooked Fingers because I told him that I wasn’t a fan of Bruce. He told me to give that a listen and then …
. OK; write an intro for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s live version of “Prove it All Night,” Phoenix, 1978 (above). Shoot, just listen to it and you can hear that Bruce plays a better intro than I could ever write. Not to mention that the man has done some really great inteviews …
In 1977, the Jersey sound was getting hot. Some guy named Bruce Springsteen had put out a record called Born to Run in ’75 and while everyone waited for the next album (and then waited some more), the word was there were more bands out there in the “flats of Jersey”. The Sugar Miami Steve …
After much negotiation, Ron Swanson submitted the following Top 25 list: I am not married to the list per se, but here’s the thought process, such as it is: put this out on the blog (more or less as is) and then add a link asking readers to vote for their fav songs to replace …