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Bruce and Clarence were Scooter and the Big Man, they were black and white, they were big and small. It was still a bold move in the early ’70s, especially in some parts of the country, to have an African-American in your band, much less one you danced with, rubbed butts with and engaged in a long soulful kiss with; the country was only a few years out of the Civil Rights movement and there are stories of gigs the band didn’t get and hotels they were told they weren’t welcome in.

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Bruce Springsteen has recorded a new Pete Seeger song for a Seeger album that is penciled in for release this holiday season.
Springsteen sings two verses and a chorus on “God is Counting on Us,” a song Seeger wrote in response to the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. Appleseed Recordings will release the Seeger album.

The song will be the sixth exclusive Springsteen song that Appleseed has released in conjunction with its various Seeger projects, label owner Jim Musselman told Billboard.com. The Boss has had tracks on 1998’s “Where Have all the Flowers Gone,” 2007’s “Sowing the Seeds” and 2007’s “Give Us Your Poor,” among others. “Tomorrow’s Children,” the latest Seeger recording from Appleseed, won the Grammy this year for best musical album for children. Seeger, 92, has been honored with Grammys, a Kennedy Center Award, the Presidential Medal of the Arts and a Lifetime Legends medal from the Library of Congress.

Musselman is calling on others to contribute to the album that he hopes to have singed within the next few weeks. Springsteen paid tribute to Seeger in 2006 with his album “We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions” and a live album from his tour performing the material.

Clarence Clemons suffered a stroke

Spare a thought for the Big Man. Let’s hope he gets better soon. 

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(Yeah, bad taste, but are you also wondering which album?)

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In a wide-ranging interview illustrated with candid Danny Clinch photos taken at Springsteen’s New Jersey hideaway, Springsteen ponders the impact of his home state on his writing, his kinship with punk bards Joe Strummer and Patti Smith and his weakness for “the darkness”.

The new issue of Mojo magazine goes on sale tomorrow in the UK.

Holiday shopping just got a lot easier for the Bruce Springsteen devotees in your life. According to Rolling Stone, E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt told a UK radio station that Christmas 2010 will see the long-awaited ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ reissue. “We’re doing a little bit of fixes on some ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ outtakes, which is going to be a really fun reissue coming for Christmas,” the guitarist said in the interview.

The big news for fans though is that the reissue of the classic 1978 album, which features such classics as ‘Badlands’ and ‘Prove It All Night,’ will include unreleased material. “We put 10 or so outtakes on the [1998] ‘Tracks’ box set and we [have since] found 10 more,” Van Zandt revealed. “I’m not sure how many we’ll put on there. We’ll go back and he might finish a lyric on one or two, or finish a harmony on one or two, but we’ll keep them intact pretty much.”

The follow-up to Springsteen’s breakthrough ‘Born to Run’ album, ‘Darkness’ is considered equal or even superior by some Springsteen aficionados. During the recording period, Springsteen was involved in legal battles with former manager Mike Appel and the fury and pent-up frustration of that period of inactivity can be heard throughout the anthemic feel of many of the songs off ‘Darkness.’ Many of the tracks are also fan concert favorites, with ‘Badlands’ often taking the closing spot during recent tours.

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Click for a video interview with Max in which he discusses his forthcoming Big Band Tour, his future with Conan O’Brien, a much-rumoured reissue of Darkness on the Edge of Town. Oh, and:

There’s also been a long-standing rumor that Springsteen is preparing another box set of unheard studio recordings — another project Weinberg says he could get behind. “For Born in the U.S.A. there were 65 or 70 songs recorded,” he says. “There was a song, I’m not even sure what the title ended up to be, but in rehearsal it was called ‘White Lies.’ I hope that makes the light of day.”

The screening is at 9pm on Wednesday 16th June at the Curzon Soho cinema, and it’s a charity event in support of Indie Film Centers and Danny Federici Fund for Melanoma Research.

CATCH LONDON CALLING ON THE SILVER SCREEN
As they have before with Springsteen’s concert films, Emerging Pictures are providing fans the opportunity to see the new London Calling: Live in Hyde Park on the big screen in advance of its June 22 DVD release date. A 90-minute version of the film will be showing at art house cinemas around the U.S. (and, appropriately enough, in London). In the case of non-profit theaters, the screenings will benefit the venues themselves; otherwise, box office proceeds will go to the Danny Fund/Melanoma Research Alliance.

Emerging Pictures’ Barry Rebo (you’ve seen his own archival footage of Bruce in the Wings For Wheels documentary) says: “Needless to say we’re thrilled — speaking for both Emerging and our venue partners — to be able to offer support for a diverse group of community-based cultural venues as well as promote added awareness of The Danny Fund and the Melanoma Research Alliance’s important work, and appreciate the help of Bruce Springsteen, Landau Management, and Sony Music…. With the warm weather just now coming on, it’s especially timely to warn folks about the dangers of the sun. For sheer joyousness, an outdoor Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band experience is perfection.”

The currently scheduled screenings:

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