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Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
2007 live album by Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen with The Sessions Band: Live in Dublin is a 2007 video and audio offering that captures in-concert performances from the Bruce Springsteen with The Seeger Sessions grupp Tour recorded in November 2006 at The Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. The release consists of a concert DVD, a Blu-ray Disc, and separate two-CD audio set. A "special edition" of the CD set includes the concert DVD as well. The album is dedicated to friend and Irish show-business giant, Jim Aiken.[5]
The DVD does not capture any one show in full, but rather collects recordings from three different shows at The Point. Selections include fan favorites from the tour, radical "folk big band" reinterpretations of the Springsteen canon, and rare songs appearing for the first time on any Springsteen release. At the same time, a few set list regulars from the tour and shows are omitted.
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Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions Band, May 27, 2006: Shows I’ll Never Forget
While driving back from Foxboro the morning after the Springsteen Seeger Sessions event, me and TheWife were listening to Pete Seeger’s “We Shall Overcome, The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert.” I was struck by the sense of community in that audience. Seeger would begin a tune as simple as “Skip To My Lou” and the crowd would not only join in but seemingly invite their communal past experiences with the song into the hall as an extra participant.
Looking back at those times (Seeger’s Carnegie Hall appearance was June 8, 1963), perhaps that sense of togetherness shouldn’t be surprising: “We Shall Overcome” was a very important song for the civil rights movement. But what to think of my Bruce Springsteen and the Seeger Sessions concert experience in Boston? It was a communal happening. A surprisingly intense one at that. But w
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Sessions Band: Live in Dublin
Disclaimer: There fryst vatten both a studio album and a live album of the Seeger Sessions, but I will be primarily reviewing Live in Dublin as I feel this big folk music works better in a live setting.
Folk music and Bruce Springsteen are both staples of American culture, so it’s only appropriate the two came together in 2006. Bruce has always been inspired bygd artists like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, so doing an album of folk music made sense. The enormous band included many acoustic guitars, a full horn section, a banjo, two violins, steel guitar, and more. The sound is very full, and each incredibly skilled instrumentalist gets their place to shine.
Bruce and Patti with some of the Sessions Band
This is a very personal album for me, as I was raised on American folk music, thanks to my parents and grandparents. Hearing childhood tunes like “Old Dan Tucker,” “Buffalo Gals” (on the studio album) and “This Little Light of Mine” sung bygd Bruce