Archive for June, 2011
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Peter Gunn Theme, Clarence Clemons (Porky’s Revenge soundtrack) Slow Walk, Sil Austin (The Greatest R&B Hits of 1956) I Wanna Be Your Hero, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers (Rescue/Hero, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers) Blood Brothers, Bruce Springsteen (outtake from Live in New York City–Madison Square Garden 2000) Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Read more...
Tags: Clarence Clemons, Coasters, Dave Marsh, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Kick Out the Jams, Lonnie Ray Atkinson, Project Question, Robins, SiriusXM, The Duhks, The Loft
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Clarence Clemons, said both my daughter and Bruce Springsteen this week, passed through his life doing exactly what he wanted to do. Bruce said the rest, which amounted to admitting that you can’t really do that, and the result of trying to is confusion and turbulence and discomfort and illusion. Except when it works. Then Read more...
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Springsteen and race, Clarence Clemons, E Street Band, Race and music, white people and racism, white supremacy
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
Vincent Harding, scholar and writer, speaks here as perhaps the leading Gandhian activist in our nation. He can say not only that he “marched with King,” but that he wrote with him, planned with him, and learned together with him. He remains one of the truly inspiring figures of the American freedom movement. This open letter Read more...
Tags: Diane Nash, Martin Luther King, nonviolence today, Obama and civil rights, Obama and terrorism, Vincent Harding
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on Kick Out the Jams
Tags: Bob Dylan, Chuck Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron, J.P. Robinson, Jimmy LaFave, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, Kermit Lynch, Kick Out the Jams, Manfred Mann, O.V. Wright, Percy’s Song, Red House Records, The Ultimate Johnny Rivers Anthology, The Walker Brothers, Thea Gilmore
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
May 29, 2011 on “Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams.”
Tags: Annie Barrows, Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, Dave Marsh, David Deutschman, Dick Nichols, Dignity -Bob Dylan, Frank Joyce, Gil Scott-Heron, Helen Yaffe, Indignados, I’m New Here, Jamie xx, Jonathan Franzen, Kevin Gray, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Mary Ann Shaffer, Michael Kamen, The Che Guevara Reader, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Yip Harburg
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Our guest on both Kick Out the Jams and Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams with Dave Marsh will be Dale Maharidge, author of Journey to Nowhere and the new Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, each of which has an introduction by Bruce Springsteen (each of which Bruce volunteered to write).
Tags: Christie the Clown, Dale Maharidge, Dave Marsh, Journey to Nowhere, Kick Out the Jams, Live from the Land of Hope and Dreams, Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
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