"Devils and Dust" ~ Bruce Springsteen

Diane · Post by **Diane** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:57 am

< * presses 'play' and they both lean back and enjoy the music.... * >

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:00 am

< * all is well * >

Love,

Lizzy

Shane · Post by **Shane** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:26 pm

Two new Springsteen albums coming out!!!

The anticipated reunion of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, which was expected by many to be announced this spring, will not be the next source of musical inspiration for Springsteen.

The singer will release a cover album of Pete Seeger songs, tentatively-titled The Seeger Sessions later this spring.

The disc is the first time that Springsteen will release a covers album; however, it is not the first time he has recorded a Seeger cover. Springsteen recorded the legendary folk singer’s “We Shall Overcome” for the 1998 collection Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger.

Springsteen is expected to tour small markets with wife Patti Scialfa and the other musicians who helped him to record the disc. The singer is expected to spend approximately two months on the road.

Rolling Stone reported Thursday (February 23) that the album is not yet complete and that “Springsteen is likely to hit the studio once more” before the record is complete.

and out today:

Bruce Springsteen (music) & the E Street Band
"Hammersmith Odeon London, Live '75"
(Sony)

The biggest selling point of the three-disc, 30th-anniversary reissue of "Born to Run," released late last year, was the DVD of Springsteen and the E Street Band performing their first date outside of the U.S. at London's Hammersmith Odeon. Many Boss fanatics regard that gig, which took place in November of 1975, as a legendary performance.

Now, Sony releases the audio-only version of that performance. The two-CD set features young Springsteen and his crew hammering through such soon-to-be classics as "Thunder Road," "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," "Rosalita" and, of course, "Born to Run."

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Kush · Post by **Kush** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:31 am

http://www.backstreets.com/news.html

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:27 pm

Now THAT is an appealing, album cover, Kush

~ a blast of everything

!

~ Lizzy

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:08 pm

I never did get the reissued Born to Run + DVD but this one should be worth it I think. Something different from The Boss..

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Pete Seeger has never been one to spend much time listening to records, explaining, "I'd rather go hiking in the woods or sailing down the river."

But the dean of American folk music says he'll spin Bruce Springsteen's new cover album, We Shall Overcome/The Seeger Sessions, as soon as he gets a copy. The collection of songs popularized by Seeger is scheduled for release April 25, a week before his 87th birthday.

"Bruce called me last week and told me it's coming out," the genial master of the five-string banjo said Friday from his home in upstate New York. "Bruce is a great guy and it's a great honour for him to have recorded some songs that he learned from me.

"I get more credit for many of these songs than I should. All I did was be one of the first people to record them," Seeger said of tunes like Erie Canal, John Henry and others that describe the lives of the hard working and oppressed.

The civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome took off after Seeger sang it with others at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh, N.C., in 1960. But he noted that various versions of it can be traced to integrated meetings of black and white coal miners in the early 1900s and to black churches in the 1800s.

"The song is famous around the world now," he said.

So is Seeger, who is also enjoying a bit of a renaissance these days. The Weavers, the seminal folk group he co-founded in the 1940s, recently received a Grammy lifetime achievement award.

"I've gotten too much publicity lately and it's very hard to live with it," he joked. "The phone rings too much and I get more mail than I can answer."

Diane · Post by **Diane** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:37 am

Bruce Springsteen is playing in the UK in May, and tickets are going at £200+ I didn't think his latest album would be my cup of tea, but this video on amazon.com hints at a marvellous show:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EU ... 48-6309437

Ah, I just noticed this link is within your link, Kush, but it's worth pointing out again, anyway.

Diane

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:03 pm

Great article on the new album in the NY Times here (login may be required)...I've heard 3 songs now from this album and I get the feeling its gonna be a hit on the lines of the soundtrack to O Brother where art thou...we'll see.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/arts/ ... 6herm.html

and the best news is....

Since much of the material on "Devils & Dust" was written and recorded years ago, and since "The Seeger Sessions" is his first all-covers collection, some fans wonder not simply about the future of the E Street Band, but also if the songwriter may be running low on fuel.

"Nah, I write all the time," Mr. Springsteen said reassuringly, leaning back on a cream-colored couch in one of the Paramount's small, slightly grimy dressing rooms after the day's rehearsals were done. "The stuff on 'Devils & Dust' — I just liked those songs and didn't want to see them get lost. I have an E Street Band record that I have a lot of stuff written for. I'm just waiting for the right time to do it."

and some news about Miami Steve

So, to cut to the chase: Has he been following this season of HBO's New Jersey gangster drama, "The Sopranos," in which the guitarist Steve Van Zandt — Mr. Springsteen's right-hand man in the E Street Band — plays Silvio Dante, right-hand man to the mob boss Tony Soprano?

"You know, I missed the last two episodes, what with working on all this, but someone told me Stevie's been having aspirations to boss-dom," said the artist still known to fans as the Boss, with a grin. "I got to see this!"

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:29 pm

Good GOLLY Mz. Molly ~ High-energy Awesome ~ Appeals to some visceral part of me, I'll tell ya! LOVE to see John Henry performed in person. Promises to be a vintage-energy Springsteen show, by the looks and sounds of it

! I'll watch for him to perform here ~ not that I could afford it any time soon, but I'll be looking.

~ Lizzy

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 3:49 am

Ha..obviously a long term fan dislikes the new album intensely....from a discussion board on the amazon.com page

Well, you can listen to this car wreck (on the highway) in its entirety on clearchannelmusic....
I cannot imagine what on earth Bruce was thinking in recording "Froggie went a Courtin" - didn't anyone have the nerve to tell him that this was a really bad idea. Every song seems to get progressively worse and by the time you get to the end you will be laughing out loud.
The tour should be a huge downer with this and maybe a few devils and dust thrown in...
And to think that I was at the Hammersmith in 75

Shane · Post by **Shane** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:07 am

The papers over here call it Bruce's best in the last 20 years. They call it better than Dylan's Good As I Been To You and the potential album of the year. So there.

Shane · Post by **Shane** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 12:03 pm

And you know what? They weren't lying!

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:44 pm

I'd say it could be his best since Ghost of Tom Joad although comparing the two is really apples and oranges. (and the fact that I havent listened to the new album yet...small technicality there)

and yes for all the thousands of words that Dylan has put on paper...if I really had to pick a single album of his for my life at gunpoint..it would most likely be Good as I Been to You. He actually sings very well on it and plays incredible acoustic guitar... I didnt know he could play guitar like that. There are songs that I may like better but it his most consistently rewarding album for me.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:27 pm

Regarding that long-term fan, it sounds like it could be that he doesn't like the 'style' of music that may prevail on this album? "Froggie Went a Courtin'" sounds like Bruce, along with ensuring that some songs simply don't get lost in the unrecorded pile, may have wanted to just have some fun with this album. He sure seemed to be doing that in the video clip ~ and good on him if that's what including the Froggie song was about

!! Variation-on-a-theme, akin to Leonard's "Dear Heather"

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~ Lizzy

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:59 pm

Dylan did the Froggie song too in Good as I Been to yer...

my top Springsteen albums (in order of release)

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Nebraska
Ghost of Tom Joad
The Seeger Sessions (based on 3 songs)

Baby tie your hair in a long white bow
Meet me in the fields behind the dynamo
You hear their voices tellin' you not to go
They made their choices they will never know
what its like to steal, to cheat, to lie
what its like to live and die.

(from Darkness at the edge of town; song 'Prove it all night')