Speed of Life

by Gregg Chadwick We Are Alive (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) "Also, those are voices from history and other sides of the grave. If you listen to the record, I use a lot of folk music. There’s some Civil War music. There’s gospel music. There are ’30s horns in “Jack of All Trades.” That’s the way I used the music — the idea was that the music was going to contextualize historically that this has happened before: it happened in the 1970s, it happened in the ’30s, it happened in the 1800s… it’s cyclical. Over, and over, and over, and over again. So I try to pick up some of the continuity and the historical resonance through the music." -Bruce Springsteen, Théatre Marigny press conference ,  Paris, February 2012 Gregg Chadwick Ciudad de la Memoria 38"x38" oil on linen 2005 Michael and Renee Hertzberg Collection, Beverly Hills   The final track  on Wrecking Ball ,  W...

Elvis Costello On Jimmy Fallon Plays Springsteen's Fire March 1, 2012

by Gregg Chadwick Land of Hope and Dreams (Song by Song Review of Bruce Springsteen's New Album - Wrecking Ball) People get ready, there's a train a-comin' You don't need no baggage, you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin' Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord - Curtis Mayfield, People Get Ready Central Railroad of New Jersey Steam 4-6-2, Jersey City, New Jersey, February 06, 1954  My grandfather on my mother's side spent his working life as a train engineer on the Jersey Central Line. That itself sounds like a Springsteen lyric and explains part of my great love for  Land of Hope and Dreams . ( Listen Here ) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band first performed the song during the reunion tour in 1999, a live version was released on   Live in New York City in 2001  and also   on  The Essential Bruce Springsteen  in 2003.   ...

John Legend Plays Springsteen's Dancing In The Dark on Jimmy Fallon February 29, 2012