Bruce Tour Debut: Ramrod
From May 12th in Milan, Italy, here’s the Seeger Sessions debut of “Ramrod” (original version found on ‘The River‘). You should be able to hear the music through the screams and singing of many many loud Italians. So yeah, the…
Grandaddy at Good Records
Last Tuesday, the great Modesto, Calif. band Grandaddy released their final album, ‘Just Like the Fambly Cat‘. I first discovered Grandaddy when I heard ‘The Sophtware Slump‘ in 2000, a collection of dreamy, gentle, electro-space-pop with awesome songs (and song…
Bruce Tour Debut: BRING THEM HOME!!!
Three nights ago in Paris, Bruce debuted this Pete Seeger tune, Pete’s anti-Vietnam song, Bring Them Home (If You Love Uncle Sam). Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band: Bring Them Home (If You Love Uncle Sam) [mp3] – May…
The Sweet Voice of Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Man, after my recent spate of posting entire shows, it feels funny to focus on one song again. This has to be posted though. You all know how it is having a song stuck in your head. You fathers and…
Hootenanny in Hammersmith
For those like me that need an updated live Bruce fix on a regular basis, here’s the Boss and the Seeger Sessions Band from Saturday night (May 6) in London. It was Bruce’s first appearance at the Hammersmith Odeon (renamed…
Keith Keith in the Coconut Tree
Oh Keith, what are we gonna do with you, man? I guess you’ve been unpleasantly reminded that – as immortal as you have proven to be – you’re no spring chicken any more. You’re 62 years old now. You can…
Odds and Ends
Silence is a Rhythm Too recently reminded me that the new and final Grandaddy album is due for release on Tuesday, May 9th. Check out an mp3 and video here. San Diego Serenade has a fun post about a recent…
Prince does America, Girl
Reaching back into the Prince 12″ extended version archives, by request, it’s the 20 minute – yes, 20 minute – version of “America”. Rockin’ and funkin’ and whatnot. And a bonus too.. oh yes… the B side to “America”, the…
The Miles Davis Quintet take Berlin
Picture yourself in Berlin in the year 1967. You step from the chill of an early November night into the Berliner Philharmonie, a beautiful, modern concert hall built just a few years earlier. You take your seat and the house…
Marah Video: This Time
Another one for the Marah fans out there (present and future) …this time it’s “This Time”, one of my favorite tracks (and the “hidden”track) from their latest, If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry. This is live at the Abbey Pub…