Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – Shake ‘Em Down – Jai Alai, Fern Park, FL, USA – 2012-02-16

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – Love On The Wrong Side Of Town – Jai Alai, Fern Park, FL USA – 2012-02-16

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – Talk To Me – Jai Alai, Fern Park, FL, USA – 2012-02-16

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – Why Is Love Such A Sacrifice – Jai Alai, Fern Park, FL, USA – 2012-02-16

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – I Played The Fool – Jai Alai, Fern Park, FL, USA – 2012-02-16

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – Nothing But A Heartache – Jai Alai, Fern Park, FL, USA – 2012-02-16

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Little Steven van Zandt sings Frank Sinatra’s “My Kind Of Town” in a trailer for “Lilyhammer” the most successful Norwegian TV series in history. From the Jukes to the E-Street, to the Bada Bing, to Ol’ Blue Eyes at the Flamingo in Lillehammer, Norway. You’ve got to love that man – or you’re up for a swim in an ice-hole…

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Twist & Shout – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Talk To Me – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Harder Than It Looks – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Woke Up This Morning – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Walk Away Renee – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Without Love – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Love Is A Scarifice – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (featuring Jeff Kazee) – Down The Line – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – The Fever – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – I Don’t Want To Go Home – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – One More Night To Rock – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes (featuring Tom Rowell on tuba) – Umbrella In My Drink – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Angel Exes / Forever – Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe, VT, 2012/02/11

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Southside Johnny: Vocals
Jeff Kazee: Keyboards
John Conte: Bass
Glenn Alexander: guitar
Chris Anderson: Trumpet
Neal Pawley: Trombone
John Isley: Saxophones
Tom Seguso: Drums
Special Guest: Tom Rowell: Tuba

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes – Trapped Again – Paramount Theater, Huntington, 2012/02/10

Video by: oddlee4u

Southside Johnny: Vocals
Jeff Kazee: Keyboards
John Conte: Bass
Glenn Alexander: guitar
Chris Anderson: Trumpet
Neal Pawley: Trombone
John Isley: Saxophones
Tom Seguso: Drums

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools – Postcards From Hell – Moondog’s Blawnox, PA, USA – 2012-02-04

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools – Love On The Wrong Side Of Town – Moondog’s Blawnox, PA, USA – 2012-02-04

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools – The Race Is On – Moondog’s Blawnox, PA, USA – 2012-02-04

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools – Stand By Me – Moondog’s Blawnox, PA, USA – 2012-02-04

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The Poor Fools: Southside Johnny, Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Neal Pawley, Tommy Byrnes

Southside Johnny & The Poor Fools – I Don’t Want To Go Home – Kitchener, Ontario – 2012-02-02

Video by: OntarioToyShows

The Poor Fools: Southside Johnny, Jeff Kazee, John Conte, Neal Pawley, Tommy Byrnes

1 in 5 Norwegians watched LILYHAMMER premiere on NRK1, reaching an overall share of 56,3% – an all-time-high for NRK1 and the best ratings for a Norwegian made drama-series ever! With 44.2% in the commercial demographics, LILYHAMMER outperformed the channel average by 245%!

So, since you already know who triggered the whole TV craziness in Scandinavia, here’s the scoop:

After Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in a small town in the Norwegian countryside called Lillehammer.

A sports fanatic, he had fallen in love with the place while watching the ’94 Winter Olympic Games. Now, he is hoping that “Lilyhammer”, as he pronounces it, will offer him more than “Clean air, fresh white snow and gorgeous broads”.

He knows that he is a marked man and figures nobody will ever find him there. That was his second mistake – the first was ratting out the Delucci Family…

But vengeful gangsters are only a part of his problems. Adjusting to the Scandinavian way of life is driving him crazy! At least he has a great Norwegian teacher, Sigrid, with whom he shares a passion far beyond books.

Of course, once a mobster, always a mobster – it is not long before Frank gets involved in shady dealings with the ex-Olympic “test jumper” Torgeir Lien and the local lawyer and businessman Julius Backe.

Here, cops are of an altogether different variety. Lillehammer’s calm and sensitive sheriff, Laila Hovland, is far more interested in crime prevention and education than solving cases… and boy can she bake! Yet another cop, Geir Tvedt, spends his spare time heading up the band “Geir Elvis and His Cell Mates”!

Of course, somebody has to try keeping Frank on the right path – a job that falls to his counselor at the local unemployment office, Jan Johansen, who specifically handles immigrants and asylum seekers, and who is a stickler for regulations!

Thrust into a brand new world forcing out a new side of his personality – and offers ample opportunities for an old one – Frank is confronted with a colorful cast of characters totally unlike the New York variety. But as he soon finds out, the past always has a way of catching up with you, especially when it concerns the Delucci family…

Netflix acquired the broadcast & distribution rights for the series in North and Latin America and will stream all eight episodes of the first season starting Feb. 6. Netflix has also signed on to co-produce the show’s second season.

Read more: ‘Lilyhammer’ sets new NRK record – January 26, 2012

Sources: Netflix.com, Seven One International, NRK

Written by Jeff Spevak – 20120126 — There was a point, about 20 years ago, when we nearly lost Southside Johnny. “I was sick of the music business, I had personal problems, my mother was dying,” he says.

“I needed to get away. I found this little house, kind of a lodge with a four-burner stove, two of which worked, and a fireplace. Every now and then I’d go into town and buy some groceries… talk to the perky little checkout girl. But mostly, it was just a pile of books and listening to classical music — and whiskey. Piles of books and whiskey bottles, and that was it.”

It seems like a bad story, but romantic at the same time. The musician who drifts away, searching for something, puttering with dysfunctional appliances. Turning his back on those amazing times in the early ’70s when Bruce Springsteen came roaring out of New Jersey, and right on Springsteen’s heels was his own band, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes.

Jon Bon Jovi — he’s another one of those Jersey rockers — said it was Southside who inspired him to put together his first rock band. A mesh of rock and soul. These guys made something.

“The past is gone, I’m much more interested in what’s in front of me,” Southside insists. Yet look at the band that he’s bringing to the German House Theater on Sunday: Southside Johnny & the Poor Fools. Rootsy American songbook. Dylan, George Jones. Muddy Waters. Southside’s even going to play some guitar, which scares him, since he lost a lot of the feeling in his left hand years ago, when he cut it on broken glass. “I remember when James Taylor was doing a solo tour, and he cut his hand with an axe,” Southside says. “The tour was just him and a guitar and a glass of water onstage, and they had to cancel a bunch of shows. And everybody I knew was asking, ‘Why is this guy cutting wood?’”

Maybe the burners on his stove were out.

“We’ve been rehearsing about 30 songs,” Southside says of the Poor Fools. “Some we’ve written, some by Tom Waits, who’s a friend, and Emmylou Harris, and some Jukes classics done in a different way. Songs by Robert Johnson, Son House ….”

Read the full article at: The Democrat And Chronicle

By Joel Rubinoff, Record staff — “I’d seen James Brown and Ray Charles,’’ Southside Johnny, a.k.a. Johnny Lyon, is telling me over the phone from somewhere on the New Jersey Shore.

“But I walked into the place I used to hang out, the Upstage Club, and this long-haired guy was onstage telling a story about how the nuns taught him the blues by bringing in a B.B. King album one day. “And he just was riveting, and I thought ‘Wow, who is this guy?’ ’’His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break.

And when he and Lyon struck up a friendship, it changed the course of Lyon’s life…

The year was 1967, says Southside, or maybe ’68, and New Jersey was alive with the sounds of the primitive, pre-Beatles rock and Stax soul that would infuse both his and Springsteen’s work.

“I was living with Miami Steve (Van Zandt, Southside’s guitarist, songwriting partner and producer before departing for Springsteen’s E Street band) and Albany Al in a three-bedroom apartment,” recalls the 63-year-old rock vet.

Read the whole article at: TheRecord.com