Courtesy of One Little Indian, the new version of Jesse Malin and Bruce Springsteen collaboration on the song ‘Broken Radio’, from the album by Jesse Malin ‘Glitter In The Gutter’:
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Terry Magovern, Bruce Springsteen’s personal assistant and good friend, passed away Monday night.
Terry was an important and influential person in New Jersey’s music scene. He managed various clubs since the late 60’s, including Clarence Clemons’ Big Man’s West club in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Magovern, a good, kind person, was involved in different charities, including Holiday Express and Light of Day, and was the founder of P.A.L.S., a support group to help people with ALS, a very strange disease (known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) that affected Terry’s fiancee Joan Dancy, who died in 2005.
He will be missed. Rest in peace.
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Asbury Park Press 7.31.2007
ALS Disease
Light of Day
An official press release has confirmed today that the new Patti Scialfa album, «Play it as it lays», will be published by Columbia Records on September 4th. The album has been co-produced by Steve Jordan, Patti Scialfa and Ron Aniello.
Musicians involved in the recording include various Seeger Sessions Band members (Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Cindy Mizelle, Jeremy Chatzky y Curtis King Jr) plus Bruce Springsteen (guitar, harmonica, Hammond B3 organ), Nils Lofgren, (guitar, pedal steel and dobro), Cliff Carter (kayboards), Willie Weeks (bass) and producer Steve Jordan (on drums).
Patti wrote the 10 songs on the album, recorded at Thrill Hill studios. Her new album will be presented on TV: September 4th at The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today, and Sept. 6th at the Emmy award-winning show The View, on ABC-TV. These are the names of the 10 songs:
Incessant rumours on the internet indicate a new Bruce Springsteen album is on the way soon, and some have even given the Sept.4th date as possible release date. But it seems, according to various sources, that this might not be correct.
Apparently Sept. 4th is the date for a new Patti Scialfa album, and Bruce’s new album would be released the first days of October, followed by a 6-week tour in the US and 2 weeks of shows in Europe before the end of the year. Of course, take this with a grain of salt, as nothing is set in stone until an official announcement arrives, but this seems to be the plan, at least if we believe in several industry sources we’ve asked.
Meanwhile, Springsteen has been spotted twice in the last days. First at the A Capella Book store in Atlanta, where he spent $300 in books, according to the Atlanta Journal.
But the most surprising of his appearances happened on thursday June 28th. Springsteen attended a friend’s wedding, and ended up jumping onstage to play with the Jeff Lubin Band («If I Should Fall Behind» followed by Chuck Berry’s classic «You Never Can Tell»). According to the band’s website «the dance floor, packed with Springsteen’s immediate family and personal friends, erupted into a wall of cell-phone cameras and video-recorders as the Boss traded off solos with Jeff Lubin Band saxophonist Matt Blostein, and keyboardist Mark Bonder. The Boss could later be seen on the dance floor enjoying himself as The Jeff Lubin Band cranked out pop/rock classics such as John Cougar Mellencam’s ‘Hurts so good’ and Bon Jovi’s ‘Living on a Prayer’ «. The wedding took place at Florentine Gardens in River Vale, NJ.
Photo: Springsteen at the wedding. 28.06.2007 /web Hank Lane Music
Shorefire Media has announced today the release of two albums from Appleseed Recordings that will include two unreleased Springsteen recordings:
«Sowing The Seeds – The 10th Anniversary». Double CD. On sale Sept. 11th.
Includes «The Ghost of Tom Joad» sung as a duo by Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger. The album includes also other songs recorded by Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, Ani Difranco, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez and others. Pete Seeger recorded the song on July 4th 2006 with some musicians at his studio (see recording credits and liner notes by Jim Musselman below) and Springsteen later added his vocals.
«Feels Like Home». CD. On sale Sept.25th.
Includes «Hobo’s Lullaby» sung as a duo by Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger, this time backed by the Seeger Sessions Band. Other songs for the album were recorded by Jon Bon Jovi, Natalie Merchant, Jewel, Steve Tyler (from Aerosmith), Bonnie Raitt and others. The album will raise funds for the Give US Your Poor campaign.
And this could very well be just the start for a very exciting end of the year, with a new album (with help from the E Street Band) coming out early October, followed by a US tour and some selected dates in Europe before the end of the year. All of this, obviously, pending to be officially confirmed.
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«The Ghost of Tom Joad» credits and liner notes. From the album ‘Sowing the Seeds’:
2. Ghost of Tom Joad
– Pete Seeger with Bruce Springsteen
(Bruce Springsteen) (c) 1995 Bruce Springsteen, ASCAP
Exclusive track
Pete Seeger: vocal
Bruce Springsteen: vocal, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Mark Dann: acoustic guitar
Ken Lovelett: percussion
David Hamburger: Dobro
Tim Carbone: fiddle
Michael Visceglia: bass
Produced by David Seitz, Jim Musselman and Bruce Springsteen
Engineered by David Seitz
Mixed by David Seitz at Shelter Island Sound, New York City, N.Y.
Mix assistants: Asia Meirovich, Matt Gil
Acoustic guitar recorded by Mark Dann at Mark Dann Recording, Woodstock, N.Y.
Dobro recorded at Shade Tree Recording Studio, Austin, TX.
Engineer: Andy Melvin
Percussion recorded at Sonart Studios, Woodstock, N.Y.
Fiddle recorded at Berkeley Sound Artists, Berkeley, CA.
Engineer: James Lebrecht
Seeger vocals recorded at Pete’s cabin, Beacon, N.Y.
Assistant Engineer: Raeann Zschokke
Springsteen vocals recorded at Boxwood Studio
Engineer: Toby Scott
Special thanks to Jon Landau, Barbara Carr, Jan Stabile, Alison Oscar,
Jon Horn, and to Steve Addabbo at Shelter Island Sound.
Bruce Springsteen appears courtesy of SonyBMG Music Entertainment
I asked Pete to sing this song and we recorded it, among others, at his cabin on July 4, 2006, at what I now call «the Springsteen Sessions.» Bruce and his manager, Jon Landau, liked the idea and Bruce added vocal, guitar and harmonica tracks to the song. The arrangement is structured with Pete talk-singing first and then Bruce repeating some of the lyrics. I did this purposely – I feel Bruce has carried on Pete’s legacy in many ways, and when Pete says, «Wherever someone is struggling to be free/Look in their eyes, Mom, you will see me,» and Bruce echoes the line, it is the sound of a torch being passed. The song’s last verse is, indeed, a summary of how Pete has lived his life – speaking for the voiceless, putting himself on the line regardless of consequence. David Seitz did a great job of putting this song together and adding the instrumentation.