• Folk

    Bruce Tour Debut: BRING THEM HOME!!!

    / May 13, 2006

    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 10th 2006, Palais Omnisports Bercy, Paris, France

  • Folk

    Hootenanny in Hammersmith

    / May 10, 2006

    from yahoo

    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 the Apollo) since the 1975 concert that showed up on the 30th anniversary Born to Run box set. I’ve been on the lookout for the New Orleans Jazz Fest performance (anyone?), but this one popped up on my radar first. It’s an audience recording from the front of the stage-right speaker stack. The quality isn’t fantastic, but we beggars can’t be choosers, can we?

    Note: if you’d like Bruce-related posts sent to your inbox, send me your email address and I’ll add you to the list (which I also do for Prince – I know, makes perfect sense). Don’t worry, your email address is safe with me. I am not nor will I ever be affiliated with the evil dolts who flood me with spam.

    Regarding the tour, I bought General Admission floor seats for the Glendale Arena show on June 3. I’m trying to determine if there are going to be seats down there on the floor, or whether we’ll all be standing (or both). I promised my wife there are seats down there. I hope I’m right. Uh-oh.

    Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band
    {Buy ‘We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions’}
    May 6, 2006
    Hammersmith Apollo
    London
    {Read a review of the show from London’s Evening Standard}

    1. Intro
    2. Oh Mary Don’t You Weep
    3. John Henry
    4. Johnny 99
    5. Old Dan Tucker
    6. Eyes on the Prize
    7. Jesse James
    8. Cadillac Ranch / Mystery Train
    9. Long Black Veil
    10. Erie Canal
    11. My Oklahoma Home
    12. How Can I Keep from Singing
    13. Mrs. McGrath
    14. Intro
    15. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
    16. Jacob’s Ladder
    17. We Shall Overcome
    18. Open All Night
    19. Pay Me My Money Down
    20. My City of Ruins
    21. Buffalo Gals
    22. You Can Look (But You Better not Touch)
    23. When the Saints Go Marching In
  • Bruce Springsteen

    You Can Look (and you better listen up)

    / April 30, 2006

    Oh my…. I’m just about speechless and hopelessly stuck in anticipation of seeing Bruce and the band live after hearing this version of “You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)” from the other night in Asbury Park. Oh my…..

    If you sit still while listening to this, check your pulse, because most likely, you’re dead.


    Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band    : You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch) [mp3] – 04/26/2006, Asbury Park, NJ

    Buy Bruce’s latest.

    Update: Conor has the the whole show up on his site. Go get ’em!

  • Folk

    Boss Alert: New Tune

    / April 29, 2006

    There’s a new Bruce / Seeger Sessions Band tune up on the Boss’ site taken from recent tour rehearsals in Asbury Park – “straight off the soundboard”. They have it streaming in Real, Quicktime, and WMA right now. Here’s a taste…

    Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band    : How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? (mp3)

    Tomorrow is Bruce & the band’s tour debut at Jazz Fest in New Orleans.

  • Folk

    Bruce Live on GMA

    / April 25, 2006

    There was no better way to start off the last day of my vacation this morning than by watching the Boss and his Seeger Sessions Band perform “Jacob’s Ladder” on Good Morning America. I was seriously moved as Bruce and his 17 member band ripped the top off the convention center in Asbury Park, NJ and let the Lord’s light shineth down below (and I’m no religious dude, mind you). WOW. It was moving to see and hear. My two year old was yelling for more Bruce as it cut away to a commercial break. Can’t blame her, really. Boy, I really have my little girl on the right track!

    Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band    : Jacob’s Ladder (mp3) – live on Good Morning America, April 25th, 2006

  • Folk

    Boss Alert: New Bruce Tour Dates

    / April 17, 2006

    A mere 2 days after my wife’s birthday, Bruce hits town with his Seeger Sessions Band. Happy Birthday honey!

    BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WITH THE SEEGER SESSIONS BAND 2006 US TOUR DATES

    April 30 New Orleans, LA Jazz & Heritage Festival
    May 27 Boston, MA TD Bank North Garden
    May 28 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion
    May 30 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheatre
    May 31 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Amphitheatre
    June 3 Phoenix, AZ Glendale Arena
    June 5 Los Angeles, CA Greek Amphitheatre
    June 6 San Francisco, CA Concord Pavilion
    June 10 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena
    June 11 St. Paul, MN Xcel Arena
    June 13 Chicago, IL First MidWest Bank Amphitheater
    June 14 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
    June 16 Cleveland, OH Blossom Amphitheatre
    June 17 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Center
    June 20 Philadelphia, PA Camden Tweeter Waterfront Amphitheater
    June 21 Saratoga, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center
    June 22 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
    June 24 Holmdel, NJ PNC Amphitheatre
    June 25 Holmdel, NJ PNC Amphitheatre

  • Pop

    The Pointer Sisters – Boss Connection

    / April 12, 2006

    For those of my generation who spent their adolescence in the 80’s (and 70’s for that matter), you were, at one point or another, exposed to the music of the Pointer Sisters: “I’m So Excited”, “Jump (for my Love)”, “Neutron Dance”, “Slow Hand”, “He’s So Shy”, and more.

    June Pointer was the youngest of the Pointers, and sadly, she has succumbed to cancer at the young age of 52 years old.

    One of their biggest hits made it all the way to #2 on the Billboard charts in 1979. It was their cover version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire”. Bruce originally wrote the song for Elvis Presley, believe it or not, with hopes that Elvis would on eday record it. He wrote it in his hiatus between ‘Born to Run’ and ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town” in 1976-77. He was hanging out with Robert Gordon around that time, who recorded the song for his 1978 collaboration with Link Wray, ‘Fresh Fish Special‘. But it was the Pointer Sisters who took the song to the highest commercial success.

    RIP June Pointer.

    The Pointer Sisters    : Fire (mp3) – from Best of the Pointer Sisters

    Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Fire (mp3) – from Live / 1975-85, recorded 12/16/78.

  • Miscellaneous

    Boss Alert

    / April 3, 2006

    Amazon has an exclusive live video of Bruce and his Seeger Sessions Band performing “John Henry” in the studio.

    Check it out here:

    Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band: John Henry (video)

  • Rock n' Folk

    Bruce goes back to Freehold

    / March 28, 2006

    ticket

    In November of ’96, Bruce returned to his hometown, Freehold, New Jersey, to perform at a benefit for the St. Rose of Lima School. It was his first performance there in nearly 30 years. He wrote a song especially for the occasion: “In Freehold”.

    He pulled the song out a few years later on tour w/ the E Street Band. This one comes from a July 18, 1999 performance at the Continental Arena at the Meadowlands. It’s a loose, witty, hilarious, and ultimately bittersweet tune. There’s a good deal of crowd noise here, but it doesn’t take away from the quality, it only enhances it, as you really feel the intimate interaction with the crowd.

    Bruce Springsteen: In Freehold (mp3) – recorded live, Meadowlands, NJ, 07-18-99

  • Folk

    Rev it up Boss!

    / March 18, 2006

    In Bruce news, if you haven’t heard, Bruce is scheduled to release a whole album of folk tunes popularized by Pete Seeger. If there’s one thing we know, it’s Bruce loves his folk! The acoustic-oriented “quiet” albums like Nebraska, The Ghost of Tom Joad, and his last release, Devils & Dust. So two in a row! Rare for the man. I’m looking forward to it, though it’s been widely noted that I would buy an album comprised only of Bruce farts and belches.

    The new one will be called “The Seeger Sessions”, and features a whole bunch of folks joining in to play…. Sam Bardfeld, Jeremy Chatzky, Lisa Lowell, Frank Bruno, Soozie Tyrell, Mark Pender, Charles Giordano, Ed Manion, Larry Eagle, Mark Clifford, Patti Scialfa, and Richie “LaBamba” Rosenberg. Soozie is the violin player that’s been touring with Bruce & the E Street Band. I’ll have to do some serious Googlin’ to find out more about the rest.

    Find out more about the album on Bruce’s web site.

    Here’s a Woody Guthrie tune that Bruce performed at a W.G. Tribute, which made its way on to the album ‘Til We Outnumber ‘Em. If you have young kids, crank this up, they’ll love the “vroom boom chick boom”s….

    Bruce Springsteen: The Car Song (mp3) – from Til We Outnumber ‘Em.