You've been the leader of the Asbury Jukes for two decades. While Lyon remains the same throaty-sounding romantic with classic soul influences, the music is tailored to the late 80s, with programmed rhythms and smooth synthesizer textures. Another thing that is interesting about you is that you didn't plan your career or your life, which you mentioned in one of your interviews. It's just the perfect stage for us in some ways. . Springsteen, working on his own album, took time to contribute a song, All the Way Home, on which he plays guitar. And Garry wound up playing with Little Melvin & the Invaders. You and the Jukes haven't released a new album in more than two years. I dont look back that much, but when I do I think: How lucky can anybody be? It's just to me that it's a unique vision of the world, a unique take on the world, and of course, I hang around in my career with guys, guys, guys, guys. Lyon started using the stage name Southside Johnny, a nickname given him for his love of Chicago blues and the extensive collection of rare blues and R&B sides he owned in tandem with Tallent. More important, however, it marks a reunion with Steve Van Zandt, who produced and wrote many of the tunes for Lyons first--and best-received--three albums from the mid- to late 70s: I Dont Want to Go Home, This Time Its for Real and Hearts of Stone, the last of which made Rolling Stone magazines 1990 list of the best 100 albums of the previous 20 years. This Time It's for Real was the second album by New Jersey Rock / R&B band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, featuring three compositions by Bruce Springsteen and Steve Van Zandt, as well as an additional five by the latter.Like their first album, I Don't Want To Go Home, there are a number of guest artists and duets, a trend that would be dropped for their next album, Hearts of Stone. When New Jerseys Asbury Park music scene rose up in the 1970s, there were three bright lights on its rock-and-soul triangle. I would hear songs like Louis Armstrong Struttin With Some Barbecue and it felt like there was life somewhere. He carried himself as a person who has something to say, and still does. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I have a wife I'm still married to, but we're separated, but I go and visit her. Southside Johnny Rock Singer #131416 Most Popular Boost Birthday December 4, 1948 Birthplace Ocean Grove, NJ Age 74 years old Birth Sign Sagittarius About Rock and blues singer who was a member of the band Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, the group that released the album I Don't Want to Go Home in 1976. Was it always your goal to be a singer and performer? SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I do connect with them. Click here to edit contents of this page. But I also want to hear a backbeat and a lot of horns. The three of you influenced each other, so how did Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi influence you? Not 'I'm gonna try to be a musician.' King album one day. That's the common thread of almost all of the bands, even the younger bands that are coming up. Hang in there and we will have a party as soon as possible. ", Scialfa's second album, "21st Street Lullaby," followed in 2004. Per Acoustic Storm, Scialfa contrasted the record with the intimacy of her first one, saying, "There are some songs with the same theme of closeness; how to be close, love songs. Johnny of Southside Johnny and the Jukes, https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/27/nyregion/new-jersey-q-a-johnny-lyon-johnny-of-southside-johnny-and-the-jukes.html. Their next concert will be tomorrow at the Bottom Line in New York City. Relations (People / Bands) Playlists | Radio | Podcast People can hear it. But then there's other songs just about living, and trying to find out who you are, where are the people around you, where are you going to set your compass, and are you going to follow that; where are you going to set your moral compass, and are you going to follow it. Ayear later, per People, Springsteen's label, Columbia, offered her a record contract of her own. 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 The album included references to everyone from writer Sylvia Plath to racecar driver Shirley Muldowney to '60s girl groups like the Chiffons. It was such a great time. I never have looked at women, except for about 15 to 16, 17 years old, as sex objects. I think that all stations should play all kinds (of music), instead of just trying to narrow their demographic down to this little 18- to 26-year-old white males in suburbia, he said. "He had long hair, a great grin and chicks just loved the s*** out of him. This is the official Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes Facebook Page. Still, the music I make isn't really like the music he makes. In 1995, Southside Johnny recorded the title song for a low-budget movie called Tuff Turf, and the tune was issued as a 12" single by Rhino Records, becoming his first solo release. I have a vague idea about what I want to do and I'd like a set list, but if at any moment I want to do a different song, I'll just call out the title of the song or the opening riff and we'll do it. I felt I was in a rut, and I had a big crisis, Lyon said over the phone last week from his home in Montclair, N.J., taking time out from making pumpkin pies that he and his wife, Jill, would serve for Thanksgiving dinner the next day at a soup kitchen in Newark. Worrying about album sales and things like that would just make me more neurotic than I already am. Recording Sessions Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, "Having a Party" Stone Pony show from September 26, 1991, in support of Southside's Better Days album, which was produce. The article noted that the album had ended up bringing Scialfa into the spotlight, and while it had kickstarted her career, it hadn't led to a large body of solo work, as she had originally hoped it would. I worked during the day and performed at night. Do you connect with them? We swapped musical educations. One of the things I'm most proud of is that the Jukes haven't lost their edge on stage. I was always of the mind-set of if you get a better offer for more money, take it. What's the secret? The Sundance Blues Band fizzled out after the closing of the Upstage Club, and by 1972 Springsteen had founded a hard rock band called Steel Mill. The connection continues on Slow Dance with Walking Through Midnight, a fine ballad of inner turmoil and frustrated yearning that Lyon and Springsteen wrote 10 years ago. Be Truthful. It was a great education for all of us. We were musicians and we were going to make a go of it one way or another, even if it meant playing in local bands on the weekends and getting a job during the week, but the main thing in our lives back then was music. No. My parents loved music. I actually started singing in front of people when I was 16 years old. So it was a confluence of things. I don't know why. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: Yes, we're all pretty good friends. Guitarist Billy Rush became their main songwriter and band leader, and Southside and company cut two studio albums for Mercury, 1979's soulful The Jukes and 1980's harder edged Love Is a Sacrifice. Its not a case of feuding between old friends, he explained, but of being caught up in careers and personal lives that dont often intersect. permissions/licensing, please go to: www.TorontoStarReprints.com. to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about accounts, the history behind an article. She once again explained how she always had to balance her solo work with her duties to the E Street Band as well as to her family, noting she had just taken two days off from touring to get her son Evan ready for college. Very much so. I don't define myself entirely by music. You can be attracted to a woman, but once you start talking, they become a human being and you become a human being to them, and if there's a human connection, that's one thing, but I've never really been attracted on a surface level. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism Lyon is a key figure in Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock N Roll, director Tom Jones documentary about the rise, fall, and revival of the central Jersey boardwalk town showing in theaters May 22 and 29. Rich L.A. homeowners are snapping them up, High school basketball: Southern California and Northern California Regional results and updated pairings, Madonna salutes late brother Anthony Ciccone for blowing my mind as a young girl, L.A. 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My mother worked, and would say it was OK to stay home as long as I cleaned the house. I just think it's a great time to make music, and you can communicate with musicians around the world. A. I definitely wasn't a model student. Click here to toggle editing of individual sections of the page (if possible). It got a lot of great reviews. There's not just one thing, and I think that's reflected in all of our music. Their onstage interactions got steamier and more suggestive, and in June they were spotted kissing in Rome, Italy. The business is still refreshingly random, Lyon joked. But Epic Records were disappointed with their sales, and in 1979 they dropped the band. Lyon, frontman for the Asbury Jukes, shared an update on social media from his home in Ocean Grove on Monday, March 30. We never made any money. I thought this is what people do. To order You probably never asked yourself, What if?. Southside Johnny has long been considered the Grandfather of "the New Jersey Sound ." Jon Bon Jovi has acknowledged Southside Johnny as his "reason for singing." I remember a hair band opening for us, and I looked in the dressing room and there was a big mirror with all this cocaine. ", Things You Didn't Know About Bruce Springsteen's Wife Patti Scialfa, Racing In The Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader. Im not driving a truck. He had a gold top Les Paul, and he wrote songs and sang and put together bands and was a great guy to know.". I want to be on the same radio station that plays Nine Inch Nails and LL Cool J and Tom Waits. I lived with Steven and two other guys, and we would listen to each others records. Three big musicians: Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and yourself come from that area, and you all know each other. So the label agreed to an alternative plan. I don't know if it's courage so much as it's just stubbornness. Let me ask you about Nashville. Q. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. I moved down there because of the people that I have met. Music was so important to us when we were young. And we were tenacious about it. 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 A powerful vocalist whose style is steeped in vintage blues, R&B, and soul, Johnny was the leader and frontman for the group the Asbury Jukes, whose tough bar band sound married the impact of hard rock with the swing and horn-fueled punch of blues and deep soul. Low 49F. ", Per AllMusic, Scialfa wrote all 12 songs on "Rumble Doll." Mostly retired people. Republication or distribution of this content is "I'm friends with a lot of these guys who have become big rock stars and it's not for me. Q. In a 1988 People magazine article about Scialfa, Asbury Jukes singer Bobby Bandiera called her "a beer-drinking buddy. And yet, while The Boss went on to conquer the world, Southside stayed behind - critically lauded for songs like I Don't Want To Go Home, but shut out of the big leagues, despite his famous connections. I don't look at it so externally. A pair of movies put Southside Johnny back in the public eye in 1990 -- his version of "Please Come Home for Christmas" appeared in the hit Home Alone, and he recorded a pair of tunes for Captain America, "Memories of You" and "Written in the Wind." The singer-songwriter and the frontman of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes is known for influencing what critics call the "New Jersey sound," but if you ask him about it as I did, he would tell you that this sound does not exist. It wasnt a mid-life crisis, said Lyon, who will turn 40 Sunday. With the addition of a horn section, the Blackberry Booze Band evolved into Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. He also trades vocals with Lyon and Van Zandt on Its Been a Long Time, the first single from the album. "But we're always there if anybody needs us. For more about the band, ple It was so overwhelming that other things just didn't matter as much. Southside Johnny's story is one of resilience, perseverance and making music for the love of music. TikTok:Jersey gal Gloria Gaynor's hand-washing 'I Will Survive' video a viral hit, Lyon, 71, is an architect of the Sound of Asbury Park with Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt and more, and a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. Too many times I've gone into the recording studio with the idea that the album would sound like this and it comes out sounding like something entirely different. Anyone have insght as to his scene that was cut? From Brucebase: Bruce (and several E-Streeters) with Southside Johnny in the early hours of August 31 (1978) following their gig at the Richfield Coliseum. All credits to the original photographer. By 1971, Lyon had formed a group called the Sundance Blues Band, which featured Lyon on lead vocals and harp, as well his high school friend Garry Tallent and other future stars such as Steven Van Zandt, Vini Lopez, David Sancious, and a promising guitarist named Bruce Springsteen. His answer was to take 6 months away from the band to record his first album on his own, Slow Dance. Instead of the punchy, beer-and-sawdust party music associated with the Jukes, it is a low-key album, given mostly to ballads. He is an actor, known for Home Alone (1990), Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and The Karate Kid Part II (1986). One of the seminal figures on the New Jersey rock scene and a gifted, charismatic singer steeped in soul, blues, and R&B. I agree. Even then, he says, Springsteen stood out. One of the first drives my wife and I took in San Clemente (was) when I was trying to think, Well, do I really want to live in one of these little California beach towns? Lyon recalled. presentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distribution Southside teamed up with Van Zandt, sometimes performing as a duo called Southside Johnny & the Kid, and after Southside worked his way into a combo called the Blackberry Booze Band, he took control of the group and brought in several local players he liked, including Van Zandt. "They were all 'I'm gonna be a musician!' Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, Steve was Miami Steve, and I became Southside Johnny because of my love of Chicago blues. We werent old enough to drink, but because we knew Garry we could get in. It's been the focus of my entire life. We reinforced our belief in ourselves. A more extensive tour, including West Coast dates, probably will come next year. . The site's review called the album a "slow seduction" and noted, "there's not a bad song in the bunch, and the title track is a gem." Recorde. Im not a nostalgist. It was just perfect. I'm interested in combining things, like the sounds of the old vocal groups, the blues, even something as foreign sounding as the violin. Two other E Streeters, drummer Max Weinberg and bassist Garry Tallent, appear on the album. Steven (Van Zandt) will go out and live with the people hes going to write about and learn as much as he can. 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 Leroy was launched with 2000's Messin' with the Blues, which featured the latest edition of the Asbury Jukes. I havent seen either of them in years or spoken to them, Lyon said. She studied jazz at the University of Miami before moving to New York and starting busking on street corners, singing in clubs, and doing session work in studios. California residents do not sell my data request. You somehow scrounged your way through and if you werent starving to death you got to play on Friday and Saturday night. I think that would be boring. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY: I think just the dedication to it, kicking ass every night even if there's only 20 people in the audienceYou go out and do your two hours and you play as hard as you can, and it really doesn't matter. A. So that was my job, but I made it a point that we would do a blues song because that was my first love, blues music. "And he just was riveting, and I thought 'Wow, who is this guy?' I have a real iron throat. Recorded 9/20/1985 - Capitol Theatre (Passaic, NJ)Visit Wolfgang's https://www.wolfgangs.com/music/ to stream concerts from thousands of legendary artists. How do you think you influenced Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, who acknowledged you as his reason for singing? Be Nice. Q. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. I honestly dont try to keep up with all that (sales) stuff because it can make you completely neurotic, and Ive got lots of other things to keep me neurotic.. We rode up this hill, and right there was this big 8-ball on a pillar. I cover pop music, from what's happening in the local scene to national trends and touring acts. His name, of course, was Bruce Springsteen, though at the time he was just another up and coming nobody trying to get a break. The move came at a lull in Lyons musical career, and life in San Clemente (which he shares with his wife, Jill, and their two canaries) has been mostly quiet: walks in nearby Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, drinks on the pier at sunset, movie outings. Don't Threaten. The following year, Southside Johnny revived the Asbury Jukes for the album Better Days, a set in the group's classic style that was produced by Steve Van Zandt and included appearances from Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, the latter a longtime Southside Johnny fan. They come home from work, have a couple of beers, and put on [Wynonie Harris] Dont Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me.. Sundays there were no cars allowed on the street. In 1984, E Street Band member Nils Lofgren was too sick to join Springsteen and the rest of the band on tour, and Springsteen asked Scialfa to join as a backup singer. Meanwhile, Lyon has landed appearances on The Tonight Show and Late Night With David Letterman. And theres a video of Its Been a Long Time, the shooting of which picked up national media attention. Just two people in the record struggling to see if they can be close, if you can trust the person, how intimate can you get without getting hurt. Socially conscious songwriting was one new direction that Lyon didnt foresee as he began work on Slow Dance. But as he commuted in from New Jersey to work in a Manhattan studio with co-producer Steve Skinner, the scene that confronted him each day at the New York Port Authority bus terminal demanded commentary. Ive been very lucky. After years of singing backup for her husband, Springsteen contributed backing vocals to several "Rumble Doll" songs. They treat us great. "He's got more straight ahead rock 'n' roll roots and I have more rhythm and blues roots," points out Southside. What about the "New Jersey magic" that transforms musicians into stars? Let's do it this way," but it's the same thing onstage. John Lyon (born December 4, 1948), [1] better known by his stage name Southside Johnny, is an American singer-songwriter who usually fronts his band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes . Im sort of master of my destiny, more so now than ever before, and it feels good. Southside Johnny Lyon was always the quintessential bar rocker, the raspy singer from the Jersey shore who fronted a brassy, scruffy-looking band and sang night after night about romance and havin a party, and about how he didnt want to go home. I am fine. A. You care very much because you know that if you don't make music, you're going to have to get a real job, and who wants that?
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