John Legend Plays Dancing In The Dark on Jimmy Fallon
John Legend Plays Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark on Jimmy Fallon February 29, 2012
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The Gospel and Blues of Rocky Ground
by Gregg Chadwick Rocky Ground (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) ''The verses are the blues, the chorus is the gospel." - Bruce Springsteen in Conversation With Jon Pareles in The New York Times July 14, 2002 Gregg Chadwick The Luminist 12"x12" oil on linen 2010 As if reaching out from the past into the present, Bruce Springsteen's song Rocky Ground (Listen Here) opens with a ghostly voice calling out the refrain "I'm a soldier." This verbal fragment was culled from a historical performance of the Church of God in Christ Congregation's rendition of I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord , recorded by musical historian Alan Lomax in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1942*. The song then shifts to the chorus, sung by the gospel singer Michelle Moore: We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground We've been travel...
You've Got It
by Gregg Chadwick You've Got It (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) "She is beautiful, and more than beautiful; she is surprising. Black abounds in her, and everything she inspires is nocturnal and deep. Her eyes are two caves dimly glittering with mystery, and her gaze illumines like lightning: an explosion in the darkness." - Charles Baudelaire , The Desire to Paint from Le Spleen de Paris, trans. by Edward Kaplan Gregg Chadwick Golden Gate 30"x22" monotype on paper 2011 Springsteen's You've Got It (Listen Here) is a call to a union of a different kind. The song begins with a simple understated guitar and vocals vibe that sounds as if it could have come from a lost demo from his audition at Columbia Records for the legendary John Hammond. No one ever found it, ain't no school ever taught it No one ever made it, ain't no one ever bought it Bab...