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Clarence Clemons, The Biggest Man You've Ever Seen!
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Kevin Kavanaugh († June 4th 2011)
All my thoughts are with Kevin’s family and friends.
As a husband, father, friend and a wonderful artist – Kevin will be missed.
Forever a Juke!
It’s been a long time since we laughed together
It’s been a long time since we cried
Raise your glass for the comrades we’ve lost
My friend it’s been a long, long time…
(Lyrics: Steven van Zandt)
Southside Johnny To Guest On The New Album By The Blues Band
It’s been five years since one of this author’s all time favorite British band’s last album. It’s been even more since this author has last seen a show of the same band.
The band with one of the best band names in the history of band names: THE BLUES BAND
Formed in 1979 by ex-Manfred Mann group members Paul Jones and Tom McGuiness, originally to play a few pub gigs, they are still going strong 18 albums/CDs later.
And there is a new album coming, “Scratchin’ On My Screen – An Album of Acoustic Blues Music”, which is now scheduled for August 16th on amazon.com
The band announced on their forum: “We have some great guests on the record including Al Kooper, Southside Johnny, Maggie Bell, Mike Sanchez and possibly Bernie Marsden. Hopefully you will consider it worth waiting for when it finally sees the light of day which we hope will be in the autumn.”
Can Steven Van Zandt Save Music in Our Schools?
Record Store Day 2011 - with Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
No River - Kazee's Debut As Solo Recording Artist Now On iTunes / amazon
It’s been a while, since I found that brown envelope in my mail. A very thoughtful friend over in NYC got me the debut record of a young, promising, talent, singer, songwriter and pianist… That’s been 1999, when this talent was about to join that band from across the river… a move which should make the young Kentuckian an honorary citizen of the great state of New Jersey – which has been made official and permanent just shortly after. Although he pretends to be still living in the city today – truth is, that he’s been living in recording studios of all kinds and on stages of all sizes ever since. Backing the greatest bar-band of all times and today’s biggest all American arena act (also from the neighborhood), jamming in the smallest hole in the wall and on (Inter)National TV. This Wizard of social media & Key Master of Cool is Mr. Jeff Kazee. And the record in that brown envelope has been No River, his debut as a solo recording artist.
Men Without Women - The Jukes Album That Never Was...
When Southside Johnny gets to answer one of his Questions of the Week on his website, you know that you are up for a tread. The wisdom of the matured warrior, combined with his ultimate wisecracks… you’ll always get more or something totaly different than you expect! We love that feature the most on SouthsideJohnny.com.
Now this week, the South made a statement which did put us in full excitement mode…:
The Sounds Of Asbury Park 30th Anniversary Concert Highlights Another Big Weekend Of Music
by New Jersey Stage on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 7:11am (ASBURY PARK, NJ) — If you love music and love Asbury Park then you will not want to miss the special events going on in the city on Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2. From a special 30th anniversary concert celebrating the release of “The Sounds of Asbury Park” album; to a special panel discussion about the city’s soul and rhythm & blues scene; to a truly historic concert featuring the famous 1960s musicians from Asbury Park’s Westside – it is all coming together that weekend.
A special 30th anniversary concert celebrating the release of “The Sounds of Asbury Park” album will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 1 the Wonder Bar (Fifth and Ocean avenues). Tickets are $10 and available at the door. The concert will feature Boccigalupe & The Bad Boys, Lance Larson, Ken Viola, Sonny Kenn, and other special guests. Viola is expected to speak about the Asbury Park music scene in the 1960s & 70s. “The music that has poured out of Asbury Park over the years reflects the special caliber of its scene. And that’s what “The Sounds of Asbury Park” is all about. A blend of personalities, varying styles and influences of musicians and vocalists, uniting devotion with a three decade history of popular music,” wrote music critic Robert Santelli.
Get to meet and hear from some of Asbury Park’s most influential musicians at a discussion held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 2. Admission is free.
Author Daniel Wolff (4th of July, Asbury Park) will moderate the April-2 discussion, with speakers including Southside Johnny Lyon and special guest musicians from the city’s famous Westside, including Billy Brown (The Moments; The Broadways; Ray, Goodman & Brown), and Bobby Thomas (The Vibranaires, The Orioles). Other guest appearances are possible. For more information about the lecture, please visit www.asburyparkmusic.org.
OFF TOPIC: The Facebook Reality
Welcome back to ASBURYJUKES.NET 3.0 – Your old fashioned fan page for an old-fashioned band and it’s old-fashioned lead singer!
Almost a year ago, this webmaster declared his retirement. And now this very website celebrates what Southside & Jukes Fans know a lot about:
WTF?!? – WE’RE COMING BACK!
In the times of Twitter and Facebook, “Community” is the keyword which excites huge international corporations and stock-markets. While the JUKES FAN Community has been exiting me for almost 30 years, the whole cyber-friendship-advertising stuff at the price of giving up privacy and disclosing personal data to venture-capitalist-supertankers did always scare me away… But now I found a way to utilize a social-network and to turn it into the “ASBURYJUKES.NET Declaration of Independence”. As Southside needs no record company, we don’t need no Facebook. We do it ourselves AND we are on the F-Book =;-)
You are now invited to join our open network and to make it into something special – YOUR MOST EXCLUSIVE SOCIAL COMMUNITY ON THE WEB. Exclusive to Jukes, Jukefans, Family & Friends! No Googles, no Murdochs, no Zuckerbergs! Create a profile, invite your friends and be a part of it TODAY!
Your data is protected against any advertisers, there are no corporate interests involved and you are in total control of what and how much of yourself you want to disclose to the world, your friends or just yourself.
The ASBURYJUKES.NET shall now live it’s own life!
Pills and Ammo Makes #1 on Little Steven's Top 10
‘Pills and Ammo’ and the single “Cross That Line” were both included by several hosts of Little Steven’s nationally syndicated Underground Garage radio show on their annual Sirius XM “Year End Top 10 Lists”. Little Steven Van Zandt and legendary rock DJ Kid Leo both named ‘Pills and Ammo’ as their #1 album of 2010. Sirius XM hosts Ko Melina and Genya Raven placed ‘Pills and Ammo’ in their Top Ten for the year as well.
“Cross That Line” also left its mark on the Underground Garage crew; Little Steven Van Zandt, Kid Leo, Genya Raven and Kim Fowley all placed the single in their Top Ten lists for the year. Additionally, fans voted “Cross That Line” #7 in the “2010 Coolest Song in the World” listener’s poll. “Harder Than It Looks” was also nominated and received votes in the poll.
Throughout 2010 on the Underground Garage, Little Steven proclaimed ‘Pills and Ammo’ songs “Cross That Line”, “Harder Than It Looks” and “One More Night To Rock’” as Coolest Song In The World weekly winners.
Source: SouthsideJohnny.com
