[Dixielandjazz] Bruce Springsteen in Ireland, gets raves for gospel, folk, blues and Dixieland"

[Steve barbone]

What, gospel, folk, blues, and now Dixieland as political songs? ;-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone

Bruce Springsteen And The Seeger Sessions Band, The Point, Dublin
By James McNair  09 May 2006

What's on George Bush's iPod? Not Bruce Springsteen or Neil Young, one
suspects - both have just released Bush-baiting albums. And when Springsteen
performed material from We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, in New
Orleans last week, he spoke of Bush and co's "criminal ineptitude" after
Hurricane Katrina. Launching into "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and
Live?", he dedicated the 77-year-old song to "President Bystander".
And so to Dublin to open the Boss's European tour. We're promised an
"all-new evening of gospel, folk and blues" - a musical banquet that
Springsteen and his 17-piece ensemble are more than qualified to deliver,
and they don't disappoint. . . snip to

He's never afraid to choreograph a move, but his music has rarely sounded
more spontaneous or vital. . . snip to

It ends much as it began, Springsteen and cohorts tapping into the Dixieland
tradition for an understated version of that epic set-closer, "When the
Saints Go Marching In". It's been an astonishingly rich evening, the
persevering, life-affirming choruses of tunes such as "Jacob's Ladder" and
"Erie Canal" provoking a mass sing-along. At times it felt like a gospel
show, and at times a down-home barn dance. Mostly, though, it felt like the
biggest pub lock-in Dublin has seen in years.