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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 • 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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05 01 09 • Blogs

Donald Gibson: Do it again!

“He sings! He swings! ‘Til the money runs out, he’ll tango ’til you pour…” Another Top 10 arrived: Donald Gibson, Music critic and editor for the Blogcritics Magazine compiled his ranking of the 10 best covers of the year 2008. Southside Johnny’s “Temptation” of GRAPEFURIT MOON made it on place 8, which is just great, given [...]
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05 01 09 • Blogs

Groovevolt’s Albums of the Year 2008

Ok, now, here’s the question: What do artists like Will.I.Am, Beyonce, N.E.R.D., The Hold Steady or Ryan Adams have in common? They all share the list of “Best Albums of 2008″ of the blog-magazine GROOVEVOLT. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY, GRAPEFRUIT MOON: THE SONGS OF TOM WAITS: It’s all about the horns. Southside Johnny Lyons’ interpretations of classic [...]
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19 12 08 • Blogs, Press

Grapefruit Moon in the Lahontan Valley

There are obvious signs of civilization out in the desert! Here’s something right from the beautiful Lahontan Valley in Nevada. Kirk Robertson did a review of GRAPEFRUIT MOON for the “Lahontan Valley News”: While recently many folks have covered Waits’ music — ranging from the successful such as Holly Cole, to the ludicrous such as Scarlet [...]
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18 12 08 • Blogs

A Deeper Shade of Soul’s Top 40

The “Best Songs of the Year” list-mania continues: BEN LAZAR in his blog A DEEPER SHADE OF SOUL (you’ve gotta love that title!) knows how to get it down to his personal Top 40 of the year 2008! And he also has been thinking and writing about that exercise as such. Compiling this list the top 40 [...]
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17 12 08 • Blogs

The AMG Favourite Americana Albums

Another list (this must be that time of the year, where people are sitting at their desks and think about nothing else than lists for the better part of their days…) made a strange selection when it comes to Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes… they picked the -Australian- compilation of songs where the most [...]
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17 12 08 • Blogs

The 40 Best Albums of 2008

This is short and sweet: The “500 WORDS” blog nominated the best 40 albums of 2008. And Southside Johnny & La Bamba’s GRAPEFRUIT MOON finished 3rd on the list. You have to see the full album ranking to realize in what exceptional good company GRAPEFRUIT MOON has been competing. 3. Southside Johnny. Grapefruit Moon: The Songs [...]
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02 12 08 • Blogs

Jim Abbott about Grapefruit Moon

They are still coming in: Another blog reviewed GRAPEFRUIT MOON – and gave another just very brief statement about the actress who did that other Tom Waits cover album: That Scarlett Johansson album of Tom Waits’ songs was a mess, but there’s another Waits tribute project on the way… Jim Abbott at the Sunshine State newspaper’s blog: [...]
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25 11 08 • Blogs

Blurt – Grapefruit Moon

REV. KEITH A. GORDON reviewed “GRAPEFRUIT MOON” for BLURT-ONLINE. Again, a review starts with referring to Scarlet Johanson: As a songwriter, Tom Waits seems to be undergoing a sort of popular revival these days. During the spring of 2008, actress Scarlet Johansson released her collection of Waits songs; produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, [...]
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18 11 08 • Blogs

A Deep Shade of Soul on a Bar Mizvah From Hell

AANSCHAFFEN METEEN DUS – PRACHTIG EERBETOON… that’s what Frank van Engelen says at The Bluesmagazine in the Netherlands. Now since my Dutch is as good as my Kishuaeli, Google claims it stands for “BUY THIS NOW!”.
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30 10 08 • Blogs

It’s Broadway Baby!

Phil Rainone gives his account of the world-exclusive-one-night-only-on-broadway-full-big-band-extravaganza on October 24th by Southside Johnny and La Bamba at the NOKIA Theater in NYC on JERSEYBEAT: Throughout the show, which lasted about an hour and a half, it was hard to separate The Sounds of Asbury Park from what could only be called the new Great American [...]
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02 09 08 • Blogs

Wiggling Air Molecules

Mark Saleski did a wonderful piece of work in his review of GRAPEFRUIT MOON at BLOGCRITICS MAGAZINE. I wrote earlier about Scarlett Johanson at another place, about another thing, I LOVED her in LOST IN TRANSLATION, but I never thought that I’d come back on her in connection with a Tom Waits / Southside Johnny [...]
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