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30 12 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

I’ve Got A Crush On You…

He may be a little old for me (I was 8 when he released his first album), but I've got a little crush... Last night I went with Hub and friends to see Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at the Ram's Head Tavern and Music Hall in Annapolis, MD. And I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. I've always liked SSJ's music. I've owned several of their albums for years, but never really followed them closely. They've always been part of my "Jersey Shore" rotation, though, along with The Boss and you-know-who.
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29 12 09 • Blogs

NYE: A New Year’s Toast To The Grinch

In an interview that appeared here in Red Bank oRBit last July, Johnny Lyon characterized his annual December 31 appearance at the Count Basie as “an act that I stole, as you know, from the late Guy Lombardo.” Don’t remember Lombardo, the Canadian big-band leader they called “Mr. New Year’s Eve” back in the day? His signature hit was the definitive version of “Auld Lang Syne“ — a tipsy anthem propped up against a wall of woodwinds as warm and flush as a gin-drunk high.
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21 11 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

The Best Bar Band in the World at the Buxton Opera House (2009)

20 November, 2009 – 6:03 pm | by Allan Mckay | When someone has had serious praise (and a sackload of songs) from Bruce Springsteen and he’s described by Jon Bon Jovi as the reason he got into music, you know there has to be a story there. The man in question is John Lyon, or Southside Johnny, and he’s aided and abetted by the Asbury Jukes...
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07 11 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

The Globe, Cardiff, Wales, UK (2009)

By Paul S from Cardiff - November 2, 2009, The Globe, Cardiff Either I'd forgotten just how good a Southside Johnny gig can be or he got even better! There were a few changes from the last time I saw Southside: a little more facial hair, the trademark shades being discarded early on, and the ever changing line up of the Asbury Jukes. But much remained the same, including great musicianship from the eight strong backing band, featuring a strong horns section...
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31 10 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

The Paard Van Troje, Den Haag, Netherlands (2009)

ASBURYJUKES.NET - 31.OCTOBER 2009 - The trip from Amsterdam's IBIS Hotel to Den Haag's IBIS Hotel was as smooth as it could be. Empty Dutch motorways are a real treat for somebody who's used to the Autobahn... and the rush hour as such. Den Haag, is a place where Johnny has been the last time more than 10 years ago, playing the Koniginnen Naach Festival in 1999 on his comeback semi-acoustic tour.
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31 10 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

Happy Halloween at the Paard van Troje, Den Haag, NL (2009)

REALROOTSCAFE.COM - On the night of the Hague show, all the Hague's people who were dressed in Halloween attire went to see Southside Johnny to play at the Horse for the first time. The rock singer from New Jersey, on the road since 1975 with his band The Asbury Jukes...
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30 10 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2009)

ASBURYJUKES.NET - 30. October, 2009 - So, you don't expect us to post setlists, do you? Since I've never been any good in keeping my mind together enough to write down what's happening on stage, I decided to use the camera instead.
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29 10 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

Honerkamps Ballsaal, Melle, Germany (2009)

MAGGIEPOWELL.NET – 29. October 2009 – So what is it about the Jukes that can entice several hundred people from the coziness of their homes to a dot-on-the-map (albeit a very nice dot) on a foggy, almost Halloween night, in lower, Lower Saxony, Germany, huh?
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20 07 09 • Live Reviews, Picture Galleries

Rythm & Blues Festival, Peer, Belgium (2009)

ASBURYJUKES.NET - July 19, 2009 - Allright... this gallery is big - as the show was - please be patient until it is loaded completely! Think Blues, think Belgium, think Peer, think John Mayall and then... Southside Johnny's best and da Jukes...
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19 07 09 • Jukes (solo), News

Bands set for food pantry benefit

John Kowalenko’s plan to bring together a crew of musicians and restaurateurs to raise money for cash-strapped East End food pantries is coming together. The event, which will be held on August 3 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Principi farm in Amagansett,
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07 07 09 • Jukes (solo), Videos

Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Rich Pagano: Early Elton – Son of Your Father

Jeff Kazee, Rich Pagano and John Conte perform Son of Your Father at The Bitter End in New York City during their ‘EE’ Early Elton show. A complete website and Facebook page is under construction. As the story goes,
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06 07 09 • Features, Press

Musicians Define The ‘Jersey Shore Sound’

Alex Biese – on The Asbury Park Press’ Metromix – comes with a simple, but more than valid question today: “How would you define the “Jersey Shore sound”? It this extract of Alex’ article, I only focused on the two gentlemen I know the best…
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02 07 09 • Blogs, Interviews

Southside Sez Life Is Good…

Red Bank Orbit has a great new interview by Tom Chesek with Johnny today. Giving some insights on the preparation of a show at the Stone Pony, Asbury Park… Preparation? Well, almost! RED BANK ORBIT: Southside Johnny! Thanks for calling in. How’s by you?
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26 06 09 • Features, Press

Greetings from Southside Johnny

By Alex Biese, June 26, 2009 It wouldn’t be summer at the Shore without him Between his annual Independence Day weekend appearances at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park and his crowd-pleasing New Year’s Eve shows at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, Monmouth County’s
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20 06 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

Gary U.S. Bonds – Swingin’ Daddy G.

Holly Cara Price reports from the 70th birthday show of the great Garry U.S. Bonds at B.B.King’s Nightclub in New York City for the HUFFINGTON POST. Starting with “Jole Blon,” a Cajun nugget that Van Zandt and Springsteen dug up for the Dedication album, the show was off to a rollicking start. Dipping into the early [...]
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18 06 09 • Jukes (solo), News

Bobby Bandiera’s “Rock n Soul Revue”

“Rock n Roll Summer Cocktail Party” Featuring Bobby Bandiera’s “Rock n Soul Revue” at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center Come celebrate summer, at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center’s first annual “Rock n Roll Summer Cocktail Party” featuring a special performance by the Bobby Bandiera Band. The event will be held on July 1st at the Axelrod Performing [...]
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12 06 09 • Blogs, Features

When Sonny Gets Blue

Sonny Kenn, Asbury Park Legend, Guitar Guru and one of the great early contemporaries of Southside Johnny has been featured in a worth reading piece of interview by Tom Chesek of the Red Bank Orbit: The way that a lot of his contemporaries on the Sound of Asbury Park scene dressed, [...]
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07 06 09 • Features, Press

For TV Band, Jet-Lag Is Part Of The Job

You can get a Juke out of New Jersey, but you can’t get New Jersey out of a Juke! It’s been proved again! The New York Times features Max Weinberg and the Tonight Show Band on it’s TV Feature: When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Izod Center [...]
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22 05 09 • Features, Press

Tom Waits, Reimaginated

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY WITH LABAMBA’S BIG BAND “Grapefruit Moon” Don’t be surprised if big slices of “Grapefruit Moon,” Southside Johnny Lyon’s big-band tribute to Tom Waits, leave you wishing that someone had produced a similar project for Ray Charles. Wouldn’t he have been inspired by the album’s vividly drawn songs and brassy orchestrations, especially when arranger Richie [...]
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16 05 09 • Features, Press

Bandiera Revisits His Orbison Program

By ED CONDRAN • April 22, 2009 • When Count Basie Theatre CEO Numa Saisselin approached guitarist/bandleader Bobby Bandiera about doing revue-style shows at the Red Bank venue three years ago, Bandiera was reluctant.
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30 03 09 • Blogs

The review of the year

If there’d be a price for the best concert review, Driver, the AMUSED CYNIC would deserve it by far distance to anyone else! His piece about last Saturday’s gig at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, NJ just made my day! How many words do you need to do full justice describing a night with the [...]
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24 03 09 • Interviews, Videos

Southside Johnny: Video Interview (2009)

Recorded on February 2nd, 2009 at Hard Rock Live in Orlando, FL. by LIVINGLEGENDSMUSIC.COM
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10 03 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

The Human Pogo Stick At B.B.King’s

Greetings from the human Dominican pogo stick that usually hangs out in front of Kazee…:-wink. Though most of my friends are rock & rollers, I’m really the only one in my circle of friends that loves SSJ & the AJ’s and whenever I tell them that I’m going to see them they bascially say “Again?”. [...]
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10 03 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews

Jukes at B.B.King’s in NYC, NY

The shows of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at BB KING’S Nightclub in Manhattan, NYC are always somewhat special since some years already. Two shows, back to back at the same venue, with almost the same audience both nights usually means that Southside and the Jukes put some extra attention in making each night [...]
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25 02 09 • Blogs, Live Reviews, Videos

Blame It On The Love!

There obviously must be a never ending source of musical talent in New Jersey. Lee from Down Under (Australia!) reports of some more new, fresh and exiting newcomers demonstrating just this fact during a private show at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey on February 23rd… I don’t know about the lead singer here, the [...]
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14 02 09 • Blogs, Interviews

Tampa Calling!

It might be a slower time with all things Jukes right now… and fighting the tough weather in and around New Jersey is keeping everybody more than busy. But as long as telephone lines are operating, the occasional interviews with the band leader are still one thing to look out for. It takes more than [...]
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08 02 09 • Features, Jukes (solo), Press

Man with A Horn

‘LaBamba’ answers the call from Springsteen, Southside, Conan By Ellen S. Wilkowe • Daily Record • February 8, 2009 His kids call him Dad, but to everyone else, Richie Rosenberg of Randolph is best known as LaBamba. Everyone except for his wife, that is. “She calls me LB,” he said. For the past 16 years, the man of one [...]
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05 02 09 • Blogs

The English Beat at the Stone Pony

Here’s a foreshadow of the grand re-opening of the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ tomorrow night. Dave Wakeling of THE ENGLISH BEAT has been interviewed by POPMATTERS.COM and demonstrated another time that a certain breed of fine British gentlemen got their history lessons on another level than the average guy (do you hear me Saunders?)… [...]
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31 01 09 • Blogs, Interviews

I still have the best job in the world!

As the whole JUKES family was on their way to Florida to play the HARD ROCK in Orlando, Jim Abbott of the ORLANDO SENTINEL’S SOUNDBOARD managed to have a short conversation with Johnny. Although Jim fantasizes a bit about the guy who is going to play the Super Bowl halftime in Tampa – and with [...]
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30 01 09 • Interviews, Press

Little Steven: From E-Street to Easy Street

Little Steven got interviewed by the EVENING HERALD, an Irish newspaper published in Dublin. While the motivation for the writeup has been the syndication of Steven’s UNDERGROUND GARAGE radio program on a Dublin station, he does give some reflections about his musical career pre-1999 and promotes his latest campaign. The success of the show has prompted [...]
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