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22 05 09 • Features, Press

Tom Waits, Reimaginated

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY WITH LABAMBA’S BIG BAND “Grapefruit Moon” Don’t be surprised if big slices of “Grapefruit Moon,” Southside Johnny Lyon’s big-band tribute to Tom Waits, leave you wishing that someone had produced a similar project for Ray Charles. Wouldn’t he have been inspired by the album’s vividly drawn songs and brassy orchestrations, especially when arranger [...]
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17 01 09 • Videos

Walk Away – The alternate Version (live)

I only heard of Southside Johnny and La Bamba’s gig at Conan’s Late Night in New York City, when it was already four weeks old news. Ever since, I have been spending hours deep into GOOGLE and searching YOUTUBE for a proof that it has really been happening. Not that I wouldn’t trust Joe – [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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07 12 08 • Press

Southside Johnny’s way with Waits

As SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES were just about to return to their November US tour schedule after spending more than a month on the road in Europe, two pieces came in via PHILLY.COM a week ago: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER’s Nick Cristiano offers a brief interview and write-up about GRAPEFRUIT MOON and Tom Waits [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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28 10 08 • Live Reviews, Press

Southside Johnny and the La Bamba Big Band

A review by PHIL GALLO Posted: Sun., Oct. 26, 2008, 12:23pm PT The premiere of Southside Johnny’s big band project with trombonist Richard “La Bamba” Rosenberg was executed impressively in moments of power or playfulness, although the two-hour show was a bit out of sync early on and slightly drowsy at the end. The program, [...]
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26 10 08 • Features, Live Reviews, Press

Big Band Amps Up Evening Of Tom Waits

By Jay Lustig, The Star-Ledger Sunday October 26, 2008, 9:16 PM NEW YORK — There has never been a Southside Johnny concert like the evening of Tom Waits songs he presented at the Nokia Theatre on Friday. There has never been a Waits show like it, either. On his September album “Grapefruit Moon,” John “Southside [...]
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12 10 08 • Features, Press

Southside, La Bamba Salute Tom Waits

THE ASBURY PARK PRESS, OCTOBER 12, 2008, BY KELLY-JANE COTTER, Southside Johnny Lyon needs to get home and do laundry before hitting the road for his European tour with the Asbury Jukes. Nevertheless, he is spending a brisk, gusty morning on the Asbury Park boardwalk and showing infinite patience with a reporter
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19 09 08 • Discography, Original Albums

Grapefruit Moon – The Songs Of Tom Waits

LEROY RECORDS (US) / EVANGELINE (UK) 2008 - Yesterday is Here - Down, Down, Down - Walk Away - Please Call Me Baby - Grapefruit Moon - All the Time in the World - Tango til They’re Sore - Johnsburg, IL - New Coat of Paint - Shiver Me Timbers - Dead and Lovely - [...]
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09 09 08 • Features

New Record: Grapefruit Moon – The Songs Of Tom Waits

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & LABAMBA’S BIGBAND LEROY RECORDS, USA 2008 “Let’s put a new coat of paint on this lonesome old town. Set ‘em up, we’ll be knockin’ ‘em down.” – Tom Waits “Let’s put a new coat of paint on this lonesome old town. Set ‘em up, I’ll be knockin’ ‘em right on down.” – [...]
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02 09 08 • Press

Southside Johnny records Waits tribute

By Anthony Venutolo/The Star-Ledger August 29, 2008, 2:53PM NEW COAT OF PAINT: “Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits” Southside Johnny with La Bamba’s Big Band (Leroy/Redeye) You can’t beat Tom Waits at his own game. In other words, it doesn’t make much sense to sing his songs in an approximation of his inimitable growl, [...]
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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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