What’s It Like To Meet Bruce Springsteen? We Found Out. The Aquarian Weekly October 26, 2016 Columns 2 On September 7 I attended my first Bruce Springsteen concert. Three weeks later I met “The Boss.” Well, to be accurate, I did see Bruce perform with The E Street Band when they were inducted into the Rock &...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Bruce – The First Seven Albums Mike Greenblatt February 4, 2015 Columns Listening to Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Volume #1 1973-1984 (Columbia/Legacy) back to back to back to back to back to back to back (easy as they’re all short), one gets the growth, the detours ...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Tex-Mex, Blues, Broadway & Bruce Mike Greenblatt March 12, 2014 Columns 1 If Southern Hospitality are the new Allmans, then Tampa, Florida’s Damon Fowler is their Duane. On his third Blind Pig solo CD, Sounds Of Home, he covers Johnny Winter (“TV Mama,” not to be confused with th...
Shoreworld: Fourth Edition Of The Rock & Roll Tour Of The Jersey Shore John Pfeiffer January 22, 2014 Columns 3 Jean Mikle and Stan Goldstein are back with their latest in an open-ended series of musical and historic timelines that took place here on the New Jersey waterfront region. A number of books have been wr...
Shoreworld: Bruce Springsteen In Focus 1980-2012 – Photographs by Debra L. Rothenberg John Pfeiffer October 9, 2013 NJ/NY 1 It seems that with the invasion of Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram, picture taking has experienced a growth of immense proportions. And although this is a great springboard for the subsequent crop of arti...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Another Bruce Book!?! Mike Greenblatt July 31, 2013 Columns The library of books about Bruce Springsteen is growing. The latest comes from England: E Street Shuffle: The Glory Days Of Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (Constable Robinson Publishing) by Clint...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: An Endearing Portrait Emerges… Mike Greenblatt May 1, 2013 Columns 2 I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to reading Springsteen On Springsteen: Interviews, Speeches And Encounters (Chicago Review Press), edited by New Jersey journalist Jeff Burger. Truth be told, I just wan...
The Top 10 Albums Of 2012, According To ‘The Aquarian Weekly’ Writers The Aquarian Weekly December 26, 2012 Columns 2 Mike Greenblatt 1. Bruce Springsteen/Wrecking Ball/Columbia 2. Leonard Cohen/Old Ideas/Columbia 3. Galactic/Carnivale Electricos/Anti- 4. Antibalas/Antibalas/Daptone 5. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy/R...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Bruce, We Hardly Knew Ya! Mike Greenblatt December 19, 2012 Columns The Bruce Springsteen who emerges from the 494 pages of Peter Ames Carlin’s meticulously researched Bruce (Touchstone) is a fully fleshed-out, fallible individual with faults and blemishes like all of us. E...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Bruce Mike Greenblatt April 13, 2012 Columns Maybe it’s my Jerseyboy aesthetic…or the fact that we were born within months of each other…or my penchant for really loving artists who have been at it for more than just a few months…but damn if Bruce Springs...