In the past I was very happy to get email from Bruce Springsteen. He writes a lot - "here's my new DVD," "here's Patti's new album," "I'll be performing on the Grammys." He's one of those "list" senders like your friend from college who only forwards bad blonde jokes, but never really writes. Bono, he's only written once but it was looonnnng. If you want to read it I'll send it to you, let me know.
But today Bruce writes that it's official. The only way this email would make me happy is if it had come from The Onion. That would also explain the weird 3rd person narrative. And note the name of the album - methinks a certain colon was left in the 60s.
"Columbia Records will release Bruce Springsteen's twenty-first album, 'We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions,' on April 25. The album features Bruce's personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music, Pete Seeger, for whom the album is named. Speaking of the origins of the new music, Springsteen said, "So much of my writing, particularly when I write acoustically, comes straight out of the folk tradition. Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds... they can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words."
...snippage...
According to Springsteen's longtime manager Jon Landau, "'We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions' has a lightness and ease to it, a sheer joyfulness, that makes it very special from top to bottom. Bruce has taken a core group of classic American songs and transformed them into a high energy, modern and very personal statement."
'We Shall Overcome The Seeger Sessions' Track Listing
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
Hopefully we too shall overcome the Seeger Sessions.
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Seeger Schmeeger ! If the Boss put out an album of Bob Dylan tunes, I might buy it. Better yet, Bon Jovi playing Bruce covers.
Keep it in Jersey. Don't bust my chops, get outta my yard.
What about Bruce doing Bon Jovi covers?
Bruce or his guitar player do not have the chops to cover Sambora parts.
whoa - anonymous, you have obviously never seen Bruce, OR his guitar player, live...
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