Soul Man - Bruce Springsteen

Rosanne Cash featuring Bruce Springsteen — Sea Of Heartbreak

All Along the Watchtower

Pretty good - what do you think?

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Pearl Jam

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Happy Birthday Boss

Some of his best live performances

Born to Run Live

A very young Bruce - The River

Bruce Springsteen - The River (1979)
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Thunder Road


Sunny Day

Waitin' on a sunny day - bruce springsteen live 2002
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Dancin in the dark

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This Land is Your Land



Happy Birthday

Bruce Springsteen Glastonbury Saturday

I have to admit to a bit of bias - I've seen him a couple of times and have all his albums.

BBC

Earlier on Sunday, Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis revealed he already has "three or four" superstars lined up to headline the festival's 40th anniversary next year.

But they will struggle to improve on this year's event, he added.

"I seriously don't think that we can ever do it better than we have this year," the 73-year-old told reporters.

Mr Eavis will pay a £3,000 fine after Bruce Springsteen's set overran on Saturday - but he said it was worth it.

The rocker went nine minutes past the curfew. "It's not a lot of money, come on - the last nine minutes were absolutely spectacular," Mr Eavis said.

"He did a hell of a show. What energy that chap's got! It's probably the best show he's done in his life."

Set list.

1. Coma Girl
2. Badlands

3. Prove It All Night
4. My Lucky Day
5. Outlaw Pete
6. Out In The Street
7. Working On A Dream
8. Seeds
9. Johnny 99
10. The Ghost Of Tom Joad
11. Raise Your Hand
12. Because The Night
13. No Surrender (W/ The Gaslight Anthem)
14. Waitin' On A Sunny Day
15. The Promised Land
16. The River
17. Radio Nowhere
18. Lonesome Day
19. The Rising
20. Born To Run

Encores:
21. Hard Times
22. Thunder Road
23. Land Of Hope And Dreams
24. American Land
25. Glory Days
26. Dancing In The Dark

Jersey Boys

The Gaslight Anthem's music embraces many elements of the Jersey Shore sound. The band has described their sound as "Bruce Springsteen singing for a Cure cover band, with a tinge more aggression.

Well I've seen 'The Boss' a few times over the years and followed The Cure so I'll have to give Gaslight Anthem more of a listen.

The Drive


Great Expectations


The Cure - Friday


The Boss


Buy their records at Amazon
Sink Or Swim
Greatest Hits
Working On a Dream

Pete Seeger at 90 (3)

As a song writer, he is best known as the author or co-author of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", If I Had a Hammer, Turn, Turn, Turn!". These songs are still sung throughout the world. "Flowers" was a hit recording for Marlene Dietrich, who recorded it in English, German and French (1962).
"If I Had a Hammer" was a hit for Peter, Paul & Mary
The Byrds popularized "Turn, Turn, Turn!" in the mid-1960s, as did Judy Collins in 1964.

During the ’60s, Pete participated in the Freedom Marches in Selma, Alabama, and Washington, DC, with Dr. Martin Luther King and helped bring an adapted version of the gospel song “We Shall Overcome” to the civil rights movement, where it became an anthem of hope and determination.

Richie Havens at Woodstock


Bruce Springsteen - looking very hot.


Scarlet Moore
Dar Williams - very pleasant sound

Silvio Rodriguez - a song about Havana

Dave Matthews - crowd obviously enjoying themselves

Steve Earle Copperhead Road

Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam singing a Beatles classic

Taj Mahal - lets go fishing


Pete Seeger @SqueezeMyLemon

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Life

Safe From Harm - Massive Attack

The awareness that parenthood brings responsibilities.

Sour Times - Portishead

'Nobody loves me, it's true/Not like you do' - an exercise in enigmatic misery

Then again....
Feeling Good - Nina Simone


No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen
Stand together throughout all of life's tribulations.


Work - Lou Reed & John Cale
Has to be done.

Elvis Costello

"Costello, the pop encyclopedia, can reinvent the past in his own image"

Elvis Costello seems to have been around for ever, he pops up in a variety of genres including Rock, Pop, Classical, Blues, Movies, Opera etc. He has collaborated with numerous giants of the Music Scene and is married to Diane Krall.

I am going to indulge myself and cherry pick some of my favourites, to which I can refer to in the months to come. This is no mean feat because the scope and quality of his work is outstanding. Anyway I'll do it chronologically a la Wikipedia.

His first album in 1977 included a country feeling ballad "Alison" with a biting lyric.

1970's
A couple of years later he released Armed Forces. Both the album and the single "Oliver's Army" went to #2 in the UK

1980s The soul-infused Get Happy!! starts Costello's experiments with genres beyond Pop-Rock. The single, "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down" was an old Sam and Dave song (though Costello increased the tempo considerably).


A couple of years later he issued Almost Blue, an album of proper country music cover songs written by the likes of Hank Williams ("Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do?)"), Merle Haggard ("Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down") and Gram Parsons ("How Much I Lied"). I am cheating here - this song has Audrey Hepburn and Blue in the title and I like it



A further album Punch the Clock generated an international hit in the single "Everyday I Write the Book", the music video features lookalikes of the Prince and Princess of Wales undergoing domestic strife in a suburban home.

In 1985, he appeared in the Live Aid benefit concert in England, singing the Beatles' "All You Need is Love" as a solo artist. Elvis introduces the song as 'an old northern folk song', and the audience was invited to sing the chorus.

1990's He won a BAFTA co-produce, with Richard Harvey, for writing the music in the TV series G.B.H. by Alan Bleasdale.

In 1993, Costello tries classical music with a critically acclaimed collaboration with the Brodsky Quartet on The Juliet Letters.


He starts several collaborations with Burt Bacharach in the mid '90's. Perhaps many will remember an updated version of Bacharach's song "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" for the soundtrack to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, with both appearing in the film to perform the song. I like this one -


21st Century

On 23 February 2003, Costello, along with Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, and Dave Grohl performed a version of The Clash's "London Calling" at the 45th Grammy Awards ceremony, in honor of Clash frontman Joe Strummer, who had died in December of the previous year.


In May 2003, his engagement to Canadian jazz singer and pianist Diana Krall was announced. In December, Costello and Krall married at the London estate of Sir Elton John. Their twin sons Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James were born 6 December 2006 in New York City.



In 2005,he is in a jazz phase in November he started recording a new album with Allen Toussaint and producer Joe Henry. The River in Reverse was released in the UK on the Verve label on 29 May 2006.

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Elvis has had a long-running songwriting collaboration with Paul McCartney since the late 1980's



"Pump It Up", one of Costello's songs, appears on Rock Band 2.


Costello is also a very knowledgeable music fan, and often champions the works of others in print. He has written several pieces for the magazine Vanity Fair, including the summary of what a perfect weekend of music would be. His collaboration with Bacharach honoured Bacharach's place in pop music history. Costello also appeared in documentaries about singers Dusty Springfield, Brian Wilson, Wanda Jackson, and Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records. He has also interviewed one of his own influences, Joni Mitchell.

More of his wife here

Outlaw Pete

Bruce Springsteen - a very good new album, this is a good track. I'm not going to mention the Kiss response.



Outlaw Pete

He was born a little baby on the Appalachian Trail
At six months old he'd done three months in jail
He robbed a bank in his diapers
and his little bare baby feet
All he said was "Folks my name is Outlaw Pete"

I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete,
can you hear me?

At 25 a Mustang pony he did steal
And he rode her 'round and
'round on heaven's wheel
Father Jesus I'm an outlaw, a killer and a thief
I slow down only to sow my grief

I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete,
can you hear me?

He cut his trail of tears across the countryside
And where he went women wept and men died
One night he awoke from a vision of his own death
Saddled his pony and rode her deep into the West
Married a Navajo girl and settled down on the res.
And as the snow fell he held their beautiful
daughter to his chest

I'm Outlaw Pete, I'm Outlaw Pete,
can you hear me?
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Out of the East on an Irish
stallion came bounty hunter Dan
His heart quickened and burdened
by the need to get his man
He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river
Pulled his gun and got the drop
He said "Pete you think you've
changed but you have not"
He cocked his pistol pulled
the trigger and shouted, "Let it start"
Pete drew a knife from his boot, threw it,
And pierced Dan through the heart
Dan smiled as he lay in his own
blood dying in the sun
And whispered in Pete's ear "We cannot
undo these things we've done"

You're Outlaw Pete, You're Outlaw Pete,
can you hear me?
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

For forty days & nights Pete
rode and did not stop
Till he sat high upon an icy mountaintop
He watched a hawk on a desert
updraft, slip & slide
Moved to the edge and dug his
spurs deep into his pony's side
Some say Pete and his pony
vanished over the edge
Some say they remain frozen
high upon that icy ledge
A young Navajo girl washes in the river,
her skin so fair
And braids a piece of Pete's
buckskin chaps into her hair

Outlaw Pete, Outlaw Pete, can you hear me?
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

More happy songs

Patti Smith - Because the Night every single word is crystal clear, a very sensual rendition. Written by Patti and Bruce Springsteen

Snow Patrol "You Could Be Happy" a lovely animation that you have to watch with a smile

Paul Weller - Wild Wood - effortless style and panache

Tina Turner performs Proud Mary live - I saw her on this tour - 20,000 people on their feet dancing for hours, superb. ... and the twins!

BB King, "The Thrill is Gone" - no it hasn't. I saw him 20 years ago twanging that Lucille.

Roy Orbison - Crying with K.D. Lang - two great singers.