Springsteen -- We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

Bruce's new album is on line, for free, for today. I'm going to see him in Asbury Park on Tuesday night at a rehearsal show. I think that the new band will be really fun live, but this album will not sell at all.

http://www.clearchannelmusic.com/cc-common/mfeatures/brucespringsteenSP/

As an aside -- his first version of "We Shall Overcome", which previously appeared on a Seeger tribute album, always reminds me of 9/11, because the local NBC station in NY used it as an inspiration song during the weeks after the attacks.

 

i ADORE bruce. but have zero interest in this project. get back in the studio with the e-street gang and rock us again, please!this is self-indulgent crap.

i'll just continue to wear out my bruce dvd/video collection, thanks.

 

Play Freebird

 

I think that he's realizing that he's only got a limited time left to record and got a lot less picky about what he releases. Most of the songs from Devils and Dust were at least a few years old. The first recording session for this album was 10 years ago and was only picked up again last year.

 

I've been a Springsteen fan for a long time but at this point he's made so much money he's in his "Fuck it, I'm gonna record what I wanna record" years.

 

I compare nobody, ever, to The Master, but I would point out that AQB's theory is how we got Blood On The Tracks, to say nothing of the great all-folk albums World Gone Wrong and Good As I Been To You.
If that means some people don't hear "Rosalita" enough, tough.

 

FB...what's AQB's theory?

Being a huge Seeger fan, this is fabulous stuff.

 

I can hardly wait to hear his version of "Night Moves." ;D

 

How can he do a Seeger album without "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy?" Especially these days.

 

Pete Seeger came to my HS in the early 70's to talk about the Hudson river then got into a whole anti viet nam war diatribe - He was booed of the stage by a small group. I am proud to say I was part of that group.

You can't say I havent been consistant I never really cottened up to the "protest" types.

 

Given that Vietnam was an unmitigated disaster, not something you should be proud of.

 

Partly because of people like Seeger