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$11.99
MPN: 709582
UPC: 886970958226
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Live In Dublin
Features :
Live
Artists :
Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band
Tracks :
Atlantic City
Old Dan Tucker
Eyes On The Prize
Jesse James
Further On (Up The Road)
O Mary Don't You Weep
Erie Canal
If I Should Fall Behind
My Oklahoma Home
Highway Patrolman
Mrs. McGrath
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
Jacob's Ladder
Long Time Comin'
Open All Night
Pay Me My Money Down
Growin' Up
When The Saints Go Marching In
This Little Light Of Mine
American Land
Blinded By The Light
Love Of The Common People
We Shall Overcome
| Release Date: |
05 June, 2007 |
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Sony |
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The last time Bruce Springsteen gave up E Street for Folk Street, the band of fiddles, banjos, and accordions--sans audience--was recording 2006's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions in the informality of his living room. This time the Boss takes his American-music foray to Ireland for a three-night stint on the north quay of Dublin's River Liffey. The 23 songs drawn from those performances cover most of the songs from the Pete Seeger tribute, but venture drastically into Springsteen's popular back catalog ("Atlantic City," "Highway Patrolman," "Blinded By the Light") while delving further into his affinity for multiple styles of music, from folk and blues to gospel and country. "If I Should Fall Behind" plays like a tear-jerking last call in a dimly lit pub. "Open All Night" has been shaped into pure swing, complete with pedal steel and sax. And "Jesse James," with its furious banjo, spectator handclaps, and Springsteen howl, could pass for the Pogues, circa 1985. A simultaneously released DVD uses nine cameras to capture every sweat-beaded highlight, from the tin whistle of "Further Up the Road" to an arena bursting out in a "We Shall Overcome" singalong. --Scott Holter
Customer Reviews
Surprisingly good!!!
Rating: 4
I was a bit worried that the venture into the Seger world would generate something a bit too "country" but the energy of Bruce Springsteen and the quality of band makes it a delightful experience... A pleasant surprise....
A Musical Tradition "Live and Brucified"
Rating: 5
"BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: LIVE IN DUBLIN" . . . Bruce was born to do this concert . . . everything which he has recroded and performed before (which is more than formidable) led up to this! It's like Bruce showing and telling us: "THIS is what music is all about!" . . . it's the real deal . . . no "in studio" production tricks or gimmicks to "create" a sound - just talented musicians and singers and songwriters (known and anonymous) and great songs . . . and of course, "The Boss" himself.
I didn't attend the concert, but DID watch it on it's PBS presentation . . . and although "taped" is was as "LIVE AS EVER"! . . . and it remains "LIVE" on this audio disc recording! You could almost see and feel the joy these artists had in performing these songs. And there's an almost spiritual quality to many of these performances, at times almost as though you were seated in a revivalist tent not only listening to but joining in and singing along with your soul.
One song i'll mention in particular which i at first thought might be a Stephen Foster tune but reading the liner notes proved to be written by Bruce is "IF I SHOULD FALL BEHIND". Its theme is reminiscent of a song i heard by the Late Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, "THE FAR SIDE BANKS OF JORDAN" but its style harkens back to a time of "riverboats and banjos and committed love". I think it's a real tribute to Bruce that he could create and write a lyric and melody and song which transcends the era.
The two disc cd/album presents quite an index of song performances, some new, some folk, some blues, some dixieland, more than one "spiritual" and "gospel revival" - all "Brucified" as only The Boss and his "Sessions Band" of talented artists could lay down.
If you get only one cd this year (or any year) this is the album to buy! It's Bruce at his best, harkening back perhaps to an earlier era of music which never really disappeared but which now again makes its epiphany through the talents of Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band - "LIVE IN DUBLIN".
Great Album - Live in Dublin
Rating: 5
This is super - upbeat and fun. Old songs with Bruce's twist. Just great for lively entertainment. Highly recommend this albumn.
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