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"One of Us" was Joan Osborne's hit off her first album, "Relish." Here today in Fairfield CT she closes her show with it. I somehow always pair it in my mind with R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion," which preceded it by a few years. If God was one of us...just a stranger on the bus...

Bob Dylan liked Joan Osborne's cover on "Relish" of Man in a Long Black Coat--heard here today in Fairfield, CT--so he asked her to duet Chimes of Freedom with him for "The '60s" miniseries in 1999. Recently, Bruce Springsteen closed his shows with it. A great song has many lives

Music and its resonance for life, love, dreams and memory is the subject of my latest column in The Berkshire Eagle. Whether it is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan or whomever moves you, savor the sound.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/column… via @BerkshireEagle

In addition to the bittersweet beauty of this heartfelt rendition of Bobby Jean by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on April 15, 2024 in Albany is my capture of the magic carpet of waving arms by the audience in front of the Boss, the rhythm in 3/4 time just like a lullaby

Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff...gone now. Of all the anthemic reggae, nothing moves me more than Cliff's "Trapped." And no-one delivers it more heartbreakingly than Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. From my vault, Albany April 15, 2024. Now is the time for your tears

There's no heading to the beach and boardwalk without Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band cranked up to 11 on Spinal Tap's 0-10 dial. From my recent archives, here's a smoldering Atlantic City from April 15, 2024 in Albany. Come on and meet me tonight...the Boss' beat goes on

"Bruce!" is my tribute in song to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, their story and ours. And it's a fight we all need to wage for freedom and universal human rights, past nations and past fear. The Boss has sounded the call; let's sing our response suno.com/s/Ye9PYTulPdmD…

In The Last Third, I remember where I came from and the musicians who sustained me, Bruce Springsteen, Dylan, Prine and all those other soulful voices, some now gone like Petty, others still on the road like Macca. Thanks to the Boss for rocking on with us suno.com/s/4jAKCXIJ1WvQ…

With the Hope and Dreams tour over and summer coming on, I am pulled in by an undertow of Atlantic City, here from Albany on April 15, 2024, Bruce Springsteen's cry like a loon echoing across the water at night, a hymn to all that was and will be, in that dark under the boardwalk

Looking back at the Boss and E Street tour with joy and wonder, I take The Long Climb to wherever the road leads next. Thinking "One night he was here" and of all our journeys, trying to recapture a bit of that exhilaration with Suno's help. Rock on Bruce🎶suno.com/s/pHgmMYLv1OEy…

Feeling the quiet void after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's spring Land of Hope and Dreams tour, buoying us up, I scratched in my vault back to Uncasville on April 12, 2024, and here is its sad and sweet Bobby Jean, one that makes the heart swell every time I hear it.

In the quiet after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's '26 tour, with its Hope and Dreams, I recall the sweet dreams of the bittersweet 2024 show closer. Here for the first time is I'll See You in My Dreams from Uncasville April 12, 2024, the Boss in dreamlike kaleidoscopic

In honor of the joy and Boss defiance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's just-concluded tour, and the powerful preaching that led the call-and-response of the magical evenings, here is my rocking tribute, "The Boss Streets," with a lift from Suno suno.com/s/q2OBBLR2ydov…

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman won a 1949 Pulitzer. It has lost none of its punch in its Broadway revival. Nathan Lane delivers a bravura performance as Willy Loman, Laurie Metcalf stuns as Linda Loman, Christopher Abbott as Biff and Ben Ahlers as Happy--all are Tony-caliber

I was honored to visit the Obama Presidential Center. It was bittersweet seeing video from our 16 shows: Dylan, Macca, Aretha, Jagger...Make a plan to visit. You'll be reinspired. We need it. We forget how much got done--the ACA! America is always two steps forward, one step back

Bruce Springsteen wrote American Land 20 years ago. Cheeriness costs extra now. It's a hard road ahead, but the spring tour--as in NJ here--epitomized the Boss' inspiration of joy, resilience and resistance. Let's make America good again. E Street rocked DC this week; carry it on

In a preview of the Obama Presidential Center, there's a diorama of my Women of Soul show--sing along on YouTube. Onstage is Janelle Monae. Aretha Franklin made one of her last appearances. The Obamas care about cultural diversity. Come visit when it opens! Rediscover inspiration

"If you feel that you can't go on, reach out, I'll be there," a Holland-Dozier-Holland hit for the Four Tops seems like it's in his mind as Bruce Springsteen reaches out (as in Jersey) as he closes his message-laden tour, fired with fierce love of country and a heart full of soul

Bob Dylan is 85 today. 15 years ago, still just a kid with a crazy dream--a Leonard Cohen quip--I had him do The Times They Are A-Changin' for the Obamas. A message to a different White House, Bruce Springsteen covers Dylan's Chimes of Freedom.youtu.be/k2sYIIjS-cQ?si… via @YouTube

The brutality of expression and action by our current crop of egomaniacal leaders--the same clowns Bruce Springsteen speaks out about as his tour moves towards D.C.--is a disgrace to the service members we memorialize Monday. They deserve better, as do we. berkshireeagle.com/opinion/column…