Bruce Springsteen ziert die März Ausgabe des amerikanischen Rolling Stone Magazins.
Im Heft findet man ein ausführliches Interview mit Jon Stewart (wir berichteten bereits hier). Bruce Springsteen spricht unter anderem über sein neues Album „Wrecking Ball“ und den überraschenden Tod seines Freundes und langjährigen Bandkollegens Clarence Clemons.
Springsteen remembers Clemons in Rolling Stone
Clemons died last year. Springsteen intended to have Clemons on the new album, but says he passed on a recording session to check out his health and soon after had a stroke.
Springsteen went to Clemons‘ bedside. Clemons squeezed his hand when Springsteen spoke, but Clemons never regained consciousness.
After Clemons died, producer Ron Aniello took a live rendition of the concert staple „Land of Hopes and Dreams,“ separated Clemons‘ part and put it into a studio version.
Springsteen said: „When the solo section hit, Clarence’s sax filled the room. I cried.“ He said losing Clemons was „like losing the rain.“
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„Wrecking Ball“ ist eine vernichtende Anklage gegen die Gier der Wall Street Broker. Produzent Ron Aniello hat mir die Möglichkeit gegeben, mit verschiedenen Sounds zu experimentieren.
So wird Bruce Springsteen in einem Interview mit dem amerikanischen Rolling Stone Magazin zitiert. Weiter erklärte der Künstler, dass „Rocky Ground“ von Hip Hop Einflüssen geprägt ist. Ausserdem ist „Death to my Hometown“ ein Song, der an irischen Folk erinnert. Darüber hinaus ist Clarence Clemons Saxophonspiel bei „Land of Hope and Dreams“ zu hören.
Das Rolling Stone Magazin berichtet:
Exclusive: Bruce Springsteen Explains His Experimental New Album
The result was Wrecking Ball, a scathing indictment of Wall Street greed and corruption and a look into the devastation it has wrought. „This is as direct a record as I ever made,“ Springsteen tells Rolling Stone. „That’s with the possible exception of Nebraska, which this record has a lot in common with.“
The stark subject matter is paired with an experimental sonic palette that Springsteen created with producer Ron Aniello. „The record basically started out as folk music – just me and a guitar singing these songs,“ says Springsteen. „Then Ron brought a large library of sound that allowed me to explore – like maybe a hip-hop drum loop or country-blues stomp loop. The actual drums came later. There was no preconceived set of instruments that needed to be used, I could go anywhere, do anything, use anything. It was very wide open.“
Album opener „We Take Care of Our Own“ poses a question: Do Americans take care of their own? The songs that follow make the answer clear: The narrator of the slow waltz „Jack of All Trades“ struggles to find work, while the anti-hero of the country-folk stomper „Easy Money“ decides to imitate „all them fat cats“ on Wall Street by turning to crime. The similarly uptempo „Shackled and Drawn,“ meanwhile, offers a political analysis worthy of Woody Guthrie: „Gambling man rolls the dice, workingman pays the bill/ It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s hill/ Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going strong/ Down here below we’re shackled and drawn.“
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WRECKING BALL
Bruce Springsteens siebzehntes Studioalbum “Wrecking Ball” wird am 2. März in Deutschland erscheinen. Das Werk kann auf Amazon.de bzw. im Stonepony Fanshop vorbestellt werden. In Deutschland wird es das Standard-Album (ohne Bonus Tracks), eine Special Edition (mit Bonus Tracks) sowie eine Doppel-Vinyl-LP geben.
Auch ein Journalist der „Irish Times“ durfte gestern das neue Bruce Springsteen Album „Wrecking Ball“ in Paris hören.
Am Donnerstag gegen 12.30 Uhr waren Reporter eingeladen, in der französischen Hauptstadt einer Pressekonferenz beizuwohnen (wir berichteten hier). Dabei wurden alle Songs des 17. Bruce Springsteen Studioalbums vorgestellt. Ausserdem durften die anwesenden Journalisten Bruce Springsteen und Manager Jon Landau Fragen stellen.
Die Irish Times berichtet:
A rare and reflective meeting with the Boss
TURN UP at the agreed address at 12.30pm, the instructions begin. From there, you will be transported to an undisclosed location for an event whose format cannot be revealed in advance. Cameras, recorders and laptops will not be permitted. Put aside six hours. Is it a briefing with the Mossad? An invitation to ransom negotiations? No, folks, it’s a rare appointment with The Boss.
All the secrecy has, naturally, created quite a buzz among the gathered journalists by the time the theatre’s lights come up after a playback of Bruce Springsteen’s new album and he saunters casually onto the stage in black jeans, boots and a worn jacket. Springsteen has come to talk about the new record, Wrecking Ball – a furious, haunting portrait of an America at the receiving end of recession’s scattershot sweep and a fierce denunciation of the America that lets such things be.
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Darüber hinaus hat auch die englische Tageszeitung „The Independent“ ein ausführliches Review veröffentlicht. Musikkritiker Andy Gill schreibt, dass das Album „wunderbar klingt und Bombastrock mit Elementen aus Folk-Rock, Irish Rebel Music und Gospel vereint“.
Auszug aus Andy Gills Bericht:
First Listen: Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball, Theatre Marigny, Paris
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The song „Wrecking Ball“ refers to the demolition of Giants Stadium in New Jersey, which offered Springsteen a neat metaphor for the destruction of human values that he believes afflicts America today. „There was no accountability for years – people were losing their homes, yet nobody went to jail,“ he says. „Previous to Occupy Wall Street, there was no push-back to what was basic theft that struck at the heart of what America was about, the American sense of history and community. My work… is about judging the distance between American reality and the American Dream.“ Thus Wrecking Ball made a good title for an album that picks away relentlessly at the lack of equality in America.
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WRECKING BALL
Bruce Springsteens siebzehntes Studioalbum “Wrecking Ball” wird am 2. März in Deutschland erscheinen. Das Werk kann auf Amazon.de bzw. im Stonepony Fanshop vorbestellt werden. In Deutschland wird es das Standard-Album (ohne Bonus Tracks), eine Special Edition (mit Bonus Tracks) sowie eine Doppel-Vinyl-LP geben.
Gestern lies Bruce Springsteen auf seiner offiziellen Homepage verlauten, dass neben Nils Lofgren, Steven Van Zandt, Garry W. Tallent, Patti Scialfa, Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg, Soozie Tyrell und Charles Giodano auch Cindy Mizelle (Background Vocals), Curtis King (Background Vocals), Clark Gayton (Posaune), Barry Danielian (Trompete), Curt Ramm (Trompete), Eddie Manion (Saxophon) und Jake Clemons (Saxophon) mit auf Tour kommen werden (wir berichteten hier).
Die internationale Presse schreibt:
E! Online: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Replacing Clarence Clemons…With His Nephew!
The Boss announced on his website that the Big Man’s nephew, Jake Clemons, will take over on sax on the band’s upcoming world tour.
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Rolling Stone Magazin: Clarence Clemons‘ Nephew Jake Clemons Joins the E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen has announced that Jake Clemons – the nephew of former E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons – will be taking over some of his late uncle’s sax dutues on the forthcoming „Wrecking Ball“ Tour.
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Spin: Little Big Man: Clarence Clemons‘ Nephew Jake Joins Springsteen’s Band
In what seems a staunch effort to keep things in the family, Bruce Springsteen has tapped Jake Clemons, nephew to the late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, to share sax duties with longtime E Street collaborator Eddie Manion on the Boss‘ upcoming Wrecking Ball tour.
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Philly.com: Springsteen announces additional musicians for tour, including Clarence’s nephew
Jake Clemons is the nephew of Clarence and was the rumored replacement. Springsteen is no stranger to touring with his bandmates‘ kids.
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Boston Herald: Clarence Clemons’ nephew to play sax on Springsteen tour
ruce Springsteen has announced that two saxophonists, including Clarence Clemons’ nephew, will join his upcoming world tour with the E Street Band.
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In einem Interview mit dem Online-Magazin „The Record.com“ bestätigte „Southside“ Johnny Lyon (64), dass der Asbury-Jukes Sax-Player Eddie Manion die E Street Band verstärken wird.
The Record.com berichtet:
Southside Johnny dishes on The Boss
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And, he notes with a laugh, the musical cross-pollination that began decades ago is still going on — most recently, with Springsteen’s poaching of the Jukes’ brass section.
“He’s stealing my saxophone players to replace Clarence (Clemons, who passed away last year), so we steal from each other’s bands occasionally.”
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Damit dürfte klar sein, dass Eddie „The Kingfish“ Manion den im Juni 2011 verstorbenen E Street Band Saxophonisten Clarence Clemons ersetzen wird.
Eddie Manion arbeitete bereits mit Bruce Springsteen zusammen. Unter anderem ist sein Saxophonspiel auf den „Live 1975 – 1985“, „Tracks“, The Rising, „We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Session“ Alben sowie der „Chimes Of Freedom“ Single zu hören.
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