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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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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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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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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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28 11 08 • Interviews, News

Southside vs. Bob Harris (BBC Radio2)

“Presenting some of the best music you’ve never heard, including an eclectic mix of exciting new tracks featuring the best of Americana, Alt Country, Indie, World, Nu-Folk and Blues. As someone said to Bob in New Orleans recently – “music is all around, all you have to do is listen”. This could be the motto [...]
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23 11 08 • Interviews

Southside vs. Paul Jones – BBC Radio2 (Audio)

Here’s something, which I missed, when it went on air, but our exclusive correspondent for all things British radio, Maggie Powell, reminded me via our JUKESVILLE forum. Every Monday evening BBC Radio 2 host Paul Jones (ex Manfred Man’s Earthband, The Blues Band and President of the The British National Harmonica League), administers a weekly dose [...]
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09 04 08 • Interviews, Jukes (solo)

Jeff Kazee – In And Out Of The Harbors

A conversation with Jeff Kazee about touring with BonJovi, writing with Southside Johnny, a brush with death, romance and riding the Blue-Bread-Truck… All of this talking took place between January and March 2006 in Queens, NY, USA – Luedinghausen, Germany and – virtually – many harbors in between..: KB: Jeff, how are things going in Queens? [...]
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23 06 07 • Features, Interviews

Southside Uncensored

The following is the complete transcript of Star-Ledger music writer Jay Lustig’s interview with Southside Johnny, conducted last week. Q. So are you in Ocean Grove now? Yes I’m in Ocean Grove, back in the old hometown. Q. How long have you been back there? A year and a half. Q. How do you like being there? I love it, it’s [...]
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28 10 06 • Interviews, Jukes (solo)

Bandiera vs. Tyley (BFBS Radio2)

BFBS Radio 2 – Marc Tyley’s – CLASSIC ROCK Bobby Bandiera – World Exclusive – Saturday 28 October “Once again we showcase one of the many great talents to come out of New Jersey. He’s a superb guitarist who is equally at home in the Bon Jovi touring line up, playing on stage in front of [...]
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31 12 04 • Features, Interviews, Press

Music & Martinis – The Day Southside met Second City

THE ASBURY PARK PRESS – BY ED KAZ! – CORRESPONDENT – DECEMBER 31. 2004 Southside Johnny Lyon, sketch comic? – You read right. It was way back in 1981, when Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes ventured to Canada
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06 10 04 • Interviews, Jukes (solo)

Follow Through, the man behind the music

An Interview with Eddie Manion by Maggie Powell – October 2004 - For the first time ever on CD, Eddie Manion, saxophonist with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, has exchanged his role as band member, to that of band leader and has produced an outstanding collection of mainly original material entitled, “Follow Through”. [...]
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02 07 04 • Features, Interviews, Press

4th of July, Asbury Park (Johnny)

THE ASBURY PARK PRESS – BY ED KAZ! – CORRESPONDENT – JULY 02, 2004 Southside Johnny Lyon personifies sound of the Jersey Shore Sandy split this scene years ago. Madam Marie is still on probation. Don’t even ask about the damn Tilt-a-Whirl. Nevertheless, on July Fourth, Asbury Park’s fabled boardwalk will once again come alive with the [...]
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30 06 01 • Interviews

Phil Anderson interviews Southside

KAOS2000.NET – BY PHIL ANDERSON – JUNE 2001 New Jersey – Called the “Garden State,” but more closely associated with the working-class man. The Jersey neighborhoods have culled several musicians who exemplified the plight and lifestyles of the “common man” who worked hard to support his family. Some artists have been more emphatic – Bruce Springsteen [...]
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30 06 01 • Interviews

Classic Rock: Southside Johnny

CLASSIC ROCK REVISITED – BY BRIAN COLE – June 2001 Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes have built a reputation as a premiere bar band, combining elements of old time rock ‘n’ roll, blues and brass. Southside Johnny and Co. have been at it since the 70s, gaining a strong, loyal following that supports them to [...]
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29 12 00 • Interviews, Press

Interview: It’s his party!

THE ASBURY PARK PRESS – INTERVIEW BY ED KAZ – DECEMBER 29, 2000 “I get up onstage and go insane and sing. It’s my only redeeming feature, I think.” — Southside Johnny It’s a simple equation: New Jersey + New Years = Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. And this year, the Count Basie Theatre in Red [...]
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30 07 00 • Interviews

Liner Notes: Southside Johnny

LINER NOTES MAGAZINE – BY THOMAS GRECO – JULY 2000 He’s crass. He’s arrogant. He’s New Jersey. He’s New Year’s Eve at the Capital Theater in Passaic. He’s the joker. He’s the wiseass. He’s the best damn white blues singer on the planet. He’s Southside Johnny Lyon, leader of the fabulous Asbury Jukes. [...]
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28 05 00 • Features, Interviews, Jukes (solo), Press

Liner Notes: Little Steven

LINER NOTES MAGAZINE – BY THOMAS GRECO – MAY 2000 Although much of the credit for the rise of the New Jersey shore rock scene has been attributed to Bruce Springsteen, the fact is that Little Steven Van Zandt had just as much influence as the Boss if not more…
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04 06 99 • Interviews, Press

You can take Southside out of Asbury Park, but…

THE ASBURY PARK PRESS – BY CHRIS JORDAN – JUNE 04, 1999 With Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band and Whitney Houston touring the country, the Smithereens and Bon Jovi working on new albums, Lauryn Hill gathering her Grammys and Southside Johnny Lyon back on the road,
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28 02 99 • Interviews, Press

Southside Pulls the Plug

THE CLEVELAND FREE TIMES – BY JOHN C. BRUENING – FEBRUARY 1999 In the early ’70s, “Southside Johnny” Lyon was one of the primary architects of the Jersey rock sound. Contemporaries of Bruce Springsteen in the now fabled Asbury Park music scene, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes provided the R&B-flavored, horn-intensive sound that served as [...]
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28 10 95 • Interviews, Press

A Moveable Feast

THE TIES THAT BIND – INTERVIEW BY J.M.BOUINEAU & ROGER GOULET Southside Johnny’s new release, “Spittin’Fire”, captures live acoustic performances from his fall 1995 European Tour. The Centerpiece of that Tour was an extensive series in Paris at the Chesterfield Café where Southside – along with Bobby Bandiera, Rusty Cloud and David Hayes – ran through [...]
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28 10 91 • Interviews

Nobody’s gonna stop me!

Posted on ASBURYJUKES.NET by Mike Saunders at 18:31 – 28 Nov 1998 FOR TRUE ROCKER’S ONLY – BY MIKE SAUNDERS – 1991 Originally published in in December 1991, updated and expanded September 2002 Like many others, I first became aware of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes through my interest in Bruce Springsteen, but it was Little Steven [...]
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28 12 85 • Interviews, Press

Backstreets Interview

BACKSTREETS MAGAZINE – BY CHARLES R. CROSS When God was dishing out talent to the Asbury Park set, he gave Bruce Springsteen songwriting, Miami Steve producing and for Southside Johnny Lyon, he saved something very special: The Voice. Southside may very well have one of the purest rythm and blues voices this side of Otis Redding. [...]
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