Bruce Springsteen

[Paddy Rolling Clone]

New Album out next month is a 'tribute' to Pete Seeger:

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

(Songs written by Seeger include 'If i had a Hammer', 'turn, turn, turn' and obviously 'we shall overcome'). And, no, there's no silver bullets.......

Anyway, Springsteens 21st album is out at the end April, touring in Europe early Summer..

1. Old Dan Tucker
2. Jessie James
3. Mrs. McGrath
4. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
5. John Henry
6. Erie Canal
7. Jacob's Ladder
8. My Oklahoma Home
9. Eyes On The Prize
10. Shenandoah
11. Pay Me My Money Down
12. We Shall Overcome
13. Froggie Went A-Courtin'

Bonus Tracks:

Buffalo Gals
How Can I Keep From Singing

[CraigBatty]

That looks great Paddy Rolling Clone. Great old songs. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be sure and get a copy.
Incidentally and tangentially re: things Seeger.....
Peggy Seeger's website discusses the impending release of a new Ewan MacColl songbook which I also am looking forward to muchly. Worth checking out.

[Celtic.Dave]

New Album out next month is a 'tribute' to Pete Seeger:

We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

(Songs written by Seeger include 'If i had a Hammer', 'turn, turn, turn' and obviously 'we shall overcome'). And, no, there's no silver bullets.......

Anyway, Springsteens 21st album is out at the end April, touring in Europe early Summer..

1. Old Dan Tucker
2. Jessie James
3. Mrs. McGrath
4. Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep
5. John Henry
6. Erie Canal
7. Jacob's Ladder
8. My Oklahoma Home
9. Eyes On The Prize
10. Shenandoah
11. Pay Me My Money Down
12. We Shall Overcome
13. Froggie Went A-Courtin'

Bonus Tracks:

Buffalo Gals
How Can I Keep From Singing

Already have it on order.Heard John Henry and it sounds good.
Also added an album by William Elliott Whitmore to try out since all the good words.

[Paddy Rolling Clone]

That looks great Paddy Rolling Clone. Great old songs. Thanks for the heads up, I'll be sure and get a copy.
Incidentally and tangentially re: things Seeger.....
Peggy Seeger's website discusses the impending release of a new Ewan MacColl songbook which I also am looking forward to muchly. Worth checking out.

Springsteen plays the Point on May 5th, tickets sold out in a few minutes. Got me hands on 2 last night.


Cheers Fintan, you ordered through the website?



Edit: Yeah seen the John Henry clip on Amazon, Dave. Wonderful.


Amazon.com

[CraigBatty]

Congrats on your 'devilishly' clever 666th post auld Paddy! *...and the devil's in the chair...*

Haven't bought the Springsteen yet, will soon. And the MacColl songbook too. What a corker that'll be.

[Paddy Rolling Clone]

Congrats on your 'devilishly' clever 666th post auld Paddy! *...and the devil's in the chair...*

Thanks big man. I hadn't even noticed. Doomed, but in good company.

[seamus_mcshanty1]

Saw bruce and the e-street band a few years back in nyc. All schtick and no substances. Bruce is better off keeping it simple.

[Zuzana]

CD Review: Bruce Springsteen, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Poguetry in Motion

April 26, 2006
Steven Hart
Blogcritics.org

Jersey boy Bruce Springsteen's new disc, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, is the best Pogues record I've ever heard. I mean that as a compliment, too — I play If I Should Fall From Grace With God a lot more than I play Born to Run, and We Shall Overcome has that same perfect mix of folk directness and rock and roll energy — all it needs is a few pennywhistles and you'd swear you were listening to "Fairytale of New York." On a couple of tunes, Springsteen even tries out a growly Irish accent that makes him sound like Shane MacGowan, only a Shane MacGowan who isn't about to puke into the bass drum and pass out dangling by his shirt collar from the mike stand.

If you thought Springsteen doing an album of folk standards was going to sound like compulsory chapel and a side order of wheat germ with broccoli, then disabuse yourself of that notion immediately. This is a fun record. I bought it in Hoboken, put it in the Alpine on Observer Highway and was singing along full blast by the time I got to the Pulaski Skyway. The mix of accordion, banjo and fiddle is too infectious to believe, and everybody on the record clearly had a whale of a time - a joy they put across most effectively.

This is the New Year's Eve celebration you always wanted to be invited to, the bar where juke box has nothing but great songs and everybody sings along, and the house party that gets rolling early and doesn't let up until the morning paper hits the front door. If a record can get me to sit still for "John Henry" again, you know it's got to be good.

[philipchevron]

We get everywhere.

Bruce had a piss in our drsssing room toilet once on the Bob Dylan tour. Bob wouldn't let him use his. Caught short, this little guy knocked desperately on our door "Guys! Guys! It's Bruce! Could I use your bathroom??" Talk about Born To Run......................or perhaps The River.

[Christine]

Dirty Water, perhaps?

[Mike from Boston]

My sister-in-laws just saw Bruce Monday night at the Stone Pony and
Tuesday Morning in NYC for the GMA taping. They said it was pretty
funny to see Bruce growl at some GMA production assistant at 7AM
in the morning "My voice ain't working yet!".

They enjoyed the show, esp. Erie Canal, a pretty standard sing-a-long
song that those of us in the US learned in Grade school. In return
for telling me about the shows, I played them the Pogues version
of Jesse James, but of course had to explain it wasn't the singer with
no teeth singing-rather it was Spider.

Did Shane ever sing Jesse James? Did Spider bring this song "to the
table" so to speak?

[firehazard]

Guardian review of Springsteen at Manchester Arena:

"...Last night he, perhaps sensibly, let ancient songs speak for themselves, although the Irish-tinged anti-war Mrs McGrath was spat out with such barely intelligible fury he sounded like he'd suddenly turned into The Pogues' Shane MacGowan."

Full review at: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/stor ... 35,00.html

Now there's a gig I wish I'd seen. Missed out on London tickets too.

[CraigBatty]

Cheers for the link Firehazard. Yeah, they'd be interesting gigs to see, for sure...

[soulfinger]

although the Irish-tinged anti-war Mrs McGrath was spat out with such barely intelligible fury he sounded like he'd suddenly turned into The Pogues' Shane MacGowan

I am just trying to do this image of Brooce going: "With yer tooriaa, foldediddleaa Tooriooriooriaa." and it's just not working

[Heather]

although the Irish-tinged anti-war Mrs McGrath was spat out with such barely intelligible fury he sounded like he'd suddenly turned into The Pogues' Shane MacGowan

I am just trying to do this image of Brooce going: "With yer tooriaa, foldediddleaa Tooriooriooriaa." and it's just not working

So was I.