To the uninitiated, Bruce Springsteen’s new Only the Strong Survive CD may come as a surprise. Aside from 2006’s Pete Seeger–inspired We Shall Overcome, this is the first album of covers he has issued in his half-century career, and its focus on soul and R&B represents a bit of a departure from the rock […]
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“Ignore the man behind the curtain Ignore the puppets strings Ignore the lies and nonsense Of those who would be king” Wind of Change by Randy Lewis Brown I don’t normally use my own songs when I write about music stuff but this particular lyrical reference to the title song from my upcoming album was […]
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Stevie Van Zandt’s Unrequited Infatuations is the best biography of a rock & roller that I’ve ever read. He avoids the pitfalls of tedium and banality that typically plague similar books. That is, they spend inordinate pages on aspects of their life conveying nothing about the magic of their success as a musician. And when […]
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