Category Archives: Posts with Video
Season’s Greetings
Need a little somethin’ to get you rockin’ on this Friday before the last weekend before Christmas day? I know just the thing. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only… Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band!!!!!!!!! (Turn it up!) … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Jimi Hendrix
The book is called: History of the World in Nine Guitars. It was written by Erik Orsenna, accompanied by Thierry Arnoult and published in 1996. The English edition was translated from the original French by Julia Shirek Smith and published … Continue reading
Joni & Neil
In my formative years as a singer, guitarist and songwriter, I learned much from the music of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. Joni Mitchell’s 1970 album Ladies Of The Canyon and Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush, also from 1970, … Continue reading
Politicians & Singers, Politics & Song
Here’s what I know, also knowing that a complete accounting of the subject would be much, much, much longer. In 2012, Barack Obama has James Taylor, will.i.am and Bruce Springsteen. Mitt Romney has Kid Rock. In 2008, the folks running … Continue reading
Mighty Storm
For the past several days, with every weather report and TV news story that mentions the name “Sandy,” the voice of Bruce Springsteen singing his song “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” has gone through my mind. But today, another singer and song has … Continue reading
Autumn Leaves
The story goes that the land my neighbors and I live on was once home to a farmer. In the late 1970’s, long after the farmer passed on and the fields turned fallow, a real estate developer bought the large property, … Continue reading
Wrestling With The Angel, Chapter 4
It was the fourth stop of the tour. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were performing in support of their fourth album, Darkness On The Edge Of Town. They’d hit the road on May 23, 1978 in Buffalo, NY. On this night, the … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: “Black Bottom Stomp”
As much as I find New Orleans or Traditional Jazz to be among the most smile-inducing music ever made, my LP/cassette tape/CD/iTunes collection contains only four volumes of this remarkable genre of music. I own Volume 1 & Volume 3 of the Columbia/Legacy CD series … Continue reading
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