Mojo had an exclusive interview with Springsteen who talked about his
childhood, The River and Nebraska albums, the E Street Band and much
more.
Also in the issue: Tina Turner remembered; Vivian Stanshall reanimated; Stax Records’ unsung heroes; the madness of Black Sabbath, Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten and lots
of other stuff to read.
The covermount CD is titled Stax Uncovered featuring 15 astonishing unreleased tracks reclaimed from the label’s archives, sung by Eddie Floyd, Carla Thomas, William Bell, Rufus Thomas, Shirley Brown, Mack Rice and more.
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info here.
After a six-year hiatus, Springsteen and the E Street Band are back on tour. Unbowed by Covid, ticket pricing controversies and, it seems, even the passing of time, they are playing shows that are among the most intense of their storied career. Uncut joins them in the American Midwest to marvel at the remarkable durability of the E Street Band and their indefatigable frontman. “Every show is unique,” we learn. “It’s prove it all night and prove it every night.”
Also features about Black Sabbath, Fleet Foxes, Dexys, The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, Anohini, Rufus Wainwright and more.
This doesn’t solve the problem that youngsters can’t afford a ticket to start with.
Unless they rob a bank, or work for 2 straight months in the summer (just for 1 concert).
Legendary eccentric noise duo SUICIDE (Martin Rev and Alan Vega)
released their 3th studio LP WAY OF LIFE 35 years ago.
For this anniversary occasion, the album will be re-released on 26 May including some previously unreleased tracks. One of them is a live cover version of Bruce Springsteen’s monster hit BORN IN THE USA (almost 400 million streams on Spotify)performed at a concert in Paris in 1988.
It’s a cheeky take with Suicide name-checking rock legends
like Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Johnny Cash and Little Richard.
Living legend BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN canned a new album of covers celebrating
the Sweet Sounds Of Soul Music. It’s named ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE and
lands on 11 November. Pre-order infohere.
Springsteen:“I wanted to make an album where I just sang. And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies? I’ve taken my inspiration from Levi Stubbs, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, the Iceman Jerry Butler, Diana Ross, Dobie Gray and Scott Walker, among many others. I’ve tried to do justice to them all—and to the fabulous writers of this glorious music. My goal is for the modern audience to experience its beauty and joy, just as I have since I first heard it. I hope you love listening to it as much as I loved making it.”
Living legend BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN released one of his most compelling and gripping longplayers 40 years ago today with his 6th one NEBRASKA. A diamond of a record with The Boss at his melancholic and stripped-down, acoustic best. This record feels like he’s
a troubadour wandering on the road to Atlantic City.
Pitchfork said: “It’s an essential record in the history of home recording, but it was sort of a cul-de-sac for Springsteen himself. He has returned twice to the general format of the record, releasing the mostly solo and mostly acoustic albums The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) and Devils & Dust (2005), but neither comes close to the alchemy of Nebraska. This one just happened. Springsteen covers the entire episode of the record in just a few pages in Born to Run, and there isn’t a lot to say. He wrote the songs, he put them down on a demo, and that demo became the record.” Score: 10/10.
New MOJO magazine Issue #346 (September 2022) out now.
COVER STORY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN‘s 50 greatest songs. Entrapment and escape, love and betrayal, murder and mayhem, cars and girls: all human life encapsulated by a force of nature and his Swiss Army band. Plus: Springsteen Alone – Nebraska at 40 by David Fricke.
DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS: It’s 40 years since Too-Rye-Ay, the Celtic soul-pop milestone that was a double-edged sword for mainman Kevin Rowland. But have the wounds finally healed?
ELVIS PRESLEY: As Panto Presley hits the screens, the King comes to life in the jaw-dropping photographs of Alfred Wertheimer. MOJO gets first dibs from a new book.
DANNY THOMPSON: Punch-ups with John Martyn. Pub sessions with Nick Drake. On the bus with Roy Orbison. Sixty-odd years of low-end high jinks with the British bass master.
BURNING SPEAR: Last standing of the roots originals, reggae’s wise one grants a rare audience. “I don’t deal with colourism, nationality, or religion,” he reminds David Katz.
JOAN JETT: The Runaways derailed at their peak, but their ever-stubborn guitarist has forged on – to the delight of Riot Grrrls, Nirvana and The Goddess Of Rock.
DANGER MOUSE & BLACK THOUGHT: The über-producer with feet in the Black Keys and Kiwanuka camps gets down with the Roots’ revered rapper. Voilà! Hip hop like mutha used to make.
PROCOL HARUM: How Guy Stevens, J.S. Bach and a drug dealer’s cat paved the way for A Whiter Shade Of Pale. And how angst over attributions drove them apart.
REVIEWED: Cass McCombs / Blondie / Elvis Costello / Little Feat / Jamie T / Ben Harper / Julia Jacklin / Lou Reed / Muse / Tim Finn & Phil Manzanera / George Scott / Loudon Wainwright III / Hot Chip / Rich Ruth / Osees / She & Him / Chris Forsyth / Porcupine Tree / Josh Rouse / Earl McGrath’s horde / and much more!
PLUSIggy Pop Unseen! / Dr John’s last album / Tom Paxton reveals himself / Amanda Shires and Thee Sacred Souls are Rising / Augie Meyers’s mighty organ / Wattstax / The Pistols and Grundy / Farewell Julee Cruise / Galaxie 500 / How To Buy Steve Albini / And All Back To… Bret’s from Flight Of The Conchords!
You can purchase a copy and let it sendt to your home. InfoHERE.
20 years ago last weekend BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN released his 12th LP,
namedTHE RISING following the deadly terrorist attacks in the US on 9 September 2001, whereby the Twin Towers of The World Center in NYC
were entirely destroyed.
The legend goes that a few days after 9/11, Springsteen had driven to
the beach in Asbury Park where a man rolled down his car window and
screamed, “we need you now.”
The immense drama had proven galvanizing for The Boss. While The Rising still featured several songs that pre-dated 9/11, almost all of them were completely recontextualized.
One of the most gripping songs on the longplayer is EMPTY SKY.
I woke up this morning
I could barely breathe
Just an empty impression
In the bed there you used to be
I want a kiss from your lips
I want an eye for an eye
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Empty sky, empty sky
I woke up this morning to an empty sky
Blood on the streets
Blood flowin’ down
I hear the blood of my blood
Cryin’ from the ground
