Southside Johnny loves so many different kinds of music he needs another band

That’s why, when Southside Johnny Lyon comes to the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River on Friday night (March 16), he won’t be with The Jukes, but with a new quintet, The Poor Fools. Southside and the new band will be performing a wide variety of music, in a mostly acoustic setting, from seldom heard Jukes tunes to surprising trips afield–Muddy Waters to Mose Allison, Wilco to The Band, George Jones to Django Reinhardt. Fans can expect the unexpected, and the show gets underway at 8 p.m., with advance tickets $35, or $40 at the door. The Narrows Center is located at 16 Anawan St., Fall River. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ncfta.org, or by calling 508-324-1926.

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Little Steven Van Zandt jam with B Street Band, Hard Rock Atlantic City

Posted by Marc Berman on Friday, November 18, 2011 6:48AM – Little Steven Van Zandt, Vini “Mad Dog” Lopez take the stage with the B Street Band and surprise guests at a fundraiser for Gilda’s Club South Jersey held at the Hard Rock Cafe Atlantic City

Source: NJ.com

Montreal Jazz Festival: Listen, it’s all about the music

MONTREAL – When Southside Johnny got on the road to promote a trio of classic soulful rhythm ’n’ blues albums with the Asbury Jukes in the second half of the 1970s, he was riding in the shadow of his friend and fellow New Jersey son Bruce Springsteen’s mega-breakout. And he had only one goal.

“I wanted to stick it to people,” the man born John Lyon said during a recent telephone interview. Lyon and bandmate Steven Van Zandt (now better known as Little Steven) were “very aggressive about that New Jersey being a joke state thing,” he said. “We thought ‘We’ll show you.’ We’d go onstage and the horns would hit that big chord. It was not like another band hitting two guitars. And I was a wild performer on stage. Iggy Pop was one of my heroes. So between Steve wanting to prove himself and me wanting to prove myself, that was the real bond. We really wanted to say ‘This is good and you have to pay attention.’

Read the full story at The Montreal Gazette…

The Westside Sounds Of Asbury Park - Panel Discussion at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Asbury Park (8 Videos)

Panel Discussion on the history of race and music in Asbury Park, NJ. Nicky Addeo, moderator Daniel Wolff, Bobby Thomas, Southside Johnny Lyon and Bruce Springsteen (Note: The video sounds are a little low) Video by: stzapper

Reported by Stan Goldstein of The Star-Ledger: Bruce Springsteen was a surprise special guest at a panel discussion on Saturday afternoon at the Atonement Lutheran Church in Asbury Park. The roundtable talk was on soul, rhythm & blues and the history of race and music in Asbury Park. It featured author Daniel Wolff (4th of July Asbury Park) who was the moderator with guests: Southside Johnny Lyon, Bobby Thomas, Nickey Addeo and Springsteen who was not advertised as part of the panel. Continue reading

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes give it all on stage

By Jeff McMenemy / The Daily Item

Southside Johnny Lyon feels the anger and frustration that many working-class Americans have with the economy and has tapped into it for his new album, “Pills and Ammo.”

“It was just the way I was feeling at the time,” Lyon said during an interview Wednesday with The Daily Item. “ … There was a certain amount of anger in the air, because the economy had tanked and people were losing their homes. It makes you angry that good-hearted people who work hard and pay their bills have to go through this crap because some slick boy on Wall Street invented some new way of investing.”

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