Monthly Archives: November 2016

CLASSIC CONCERT: Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes @ Seton Hall University Pub / South Orange, NJ / circa 1975-6

The nudge for this post came from watching the first of three planned segments of a homemade documentary about The Jukes that I highly recommend for any fan of this much-loved Jersey band. The slightly unpolished, but ever-engaging video traced Southside and the band’s beginnings through the end of their three-album run on Epic Records […]

R.I.P.: Leon Russell

My thoughts about Leon Russell’s passing took me back to my college days when I wore out an 8-track tape of his 1972 album Carney. I also reflected upon his remarkable role in musical history as a session player with the Wrecking Crew and as a live performer and bandleader with Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs […]