??Playing For Change | Song Around The World “Stand By Me” from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

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When Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks came out in 1968 I didn’t know what to make of it because I had never heard anything like it. And four decades later I still have not heard anything like it. I still believe it is one of the seminal recordings of the rock era even though you  can [...]

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We are all broke and the weather sucks. So there isn’t much choice but to hunker down in the house and listen to good tunes or watch a DVD. So here is my “Top 10″ of 2008 and remember free shipping right now at Amazon.
1. Felice Brothers “Felice Brothers”
I was no more than 30 seconds [...]

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In my part of the Midwest we are at that time of the year where describing it as dreary just doesn’t fit.  Endless cloudy days occasionally punctuated by six inches of lake effect snow or maybe ice.  Really  it is enough to make you want to jump off a bridge.   That  is not an option [...]

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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band came home to New Jersey Sunday night and the family was there.  The E Street Family that is.  And for three hours and 14 minutes, just like the old days, we were as one. I saw my first Springsteen show in 1976 and Sunday night was number [...]

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The best CD I have heard so far this year is Reckless Kelly’s “Bulletproof.”   What?  Who?  Reckless Kelly, mostly from Idaho but based in the real music capital of America, Austin, Texas.  These guys are good and they work hard too.And you know a President has pretty much hit rock bottom when a cowboy band [...]

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I was thirteen years old and down in the rock and roll clubhouse I had built in the basement. My dad had banished me there months earlier because I was listening to the “Negro” radio station in Pittsburgh and he didn’t want to hear it. So I saved all of my money from [...]

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For the thousands of us who have been along for the decades long ride of the E Street Band, our hearts are heavy today. We lost a member of our extended family, Danny Federici. Danny has been a member of the band from the beginning and a friend of Bruce Springsteen since they [...]

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I tried to explain to someone standing with me in the windy chill outside The Bradley Center in Milwaukee Monday why I drove nearly four hours to see Bruce Springsteen for the 66th time. I guess I didn’t do a good job because the woman kind of rolled her eyes and poked her boyfriend [...]

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